Harry Reid: Investigate Iraq Electrocutions Harry Reid: Investigate Iraq Electrocutions
The Senate majority leader calls on Gates and Clinton to find out if shoddy electrical work by contractors killed Adam Hermanson.
Sep 15, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Iraq: Employee Electrocuted, Family Searches for Truth Iraq: Employee Electrocuted, Family Searches for Truth
Jeremy Scahill appears with the Hermanson family, whose son Adam was killed in Iraq while employed with Triple Canopy, the "new Blackwater."
Sep 11, 2009 / Press Room
The Death of Adam Hermanson The Death of Adam Hermanson
The family of a military contractor electrocuted in Baghdad is alleging his employer, Triple Canopy misled them about how he died.
Sep 10, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Another Mysterious Electrocution Death in Iraq Another Mysterious Electrocution Death in Iraq
The death of a Triple Canopy contractor in Iraq bears a striking resemblance to an earlier electrocution ruled to be a "negligent homicide."
Sep 9, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Afghanistan by the Numbers Afghanistan by the Numbers
How to measure "success" in Afghanistan, the metrics for a war gone to hell.
Sep 8, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Obama’s Meaningless War Obama’s Meaningless War
The way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency.
Sep 2, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Opposing Escalation in Afghanistan Opposing Escalation in Afghanistan
Regardless of who started the war in Afghanistan, it is now Obama's war. Preventing military escalation is necessary if the president doesn't want it to become his Vietnam.
Aug 27, 2009 / David Cortright
Afghan War Turnoff Afghan War Turnoff
Trust the judgment of the American majority, who say this war is no longer worth fighting.
Aug 26, 2009 / The Editors
GI Joe, Post-American Hero GI Joe, Post-American Hero
Why is it that GI Joe--like all action figures in all action movies of this moment--has left the all-American battlefield for outer, or future or alternate space?
Aug 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Biking Out of Iraq Biking Out of Iraq
Reflections on troops that don't depart, experts who never leave the scene, an Air Force that suddenly wasn't there and a war that no longer needs justification.
Aug 13, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt