Murtha’s No Leftie: He’s Right Murtha’s No Leftie: He’s Right
As Democrats choose between a stalwart critic of the Iraq War and a proponent of Bush policies for Majority Leader, Fox News gets in the act, casting centrist Pennnsylvania Rep. J...
Nov 15, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Last Antiwar Poem The Last Antiwar Poem
Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra," written at the height of the Vietnam War, speaks with a jarring relevance today.
Nov 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rolf Potts
The Evil Abstraction The Evil Abstraction
Before Bob Gates's confirmation as CIA chief in 1991, the man now designated as Bush's Secretary of Defense was charged with forcing intelligence reports to conform to a tough anti...
Nov 9, 2006 / Column / David Corn
And Now, Iraq And Now, Iraq
The election is over; the war is not. And George W. Bush is suddenly in one tight corner.
Nov 9, 2006 / Editorial / David Corn
Beginning of the End Beginning of the End
The Iraq Study Group report comes too late for the 600,000 people who died in carnage that is likely to worsen. It won't satisfy the antiwar movement because it sets no timetable f...
Nov 7, 2006 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
The Baker Report, Leaked! The Baker Report, Leaked!
Stay the course? Cut and run? Cut the crap? What will former Secretary of State James A. Baker III propose after the midterm elections, when the bipartisan Iraq Study Group reveals...
Nov 2, 2006 / Editorial / Evan Eisenberg
From Whitewater to Blackwater From Whitewater to Blackwater
Blackwater USA has a new attorney to defend it against a wrongful death lawsuit by families of four contractors killed in Iraq: Kenneth Starr.
Oct 26, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill and Garrett Ordower
Pat Tillman’s Legacy Pat Tillman’s Legacy
As the elections approach, a former soldier, grieving the friendly-fire death of his brother in combat, asks: How has the most respected country in the world become so irrational, ...
Oct 20, 2006 / Editorial / Kevin Tillman
The War and the Election The War and the Election
Ending the Iraq War is the most pressing issue facing America today. I
Oct 19, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors
The Killing Fields of Iraq The Killing Fields of Iraq
The carnage the US has visited upon Iraq in the name of fighting terror has taken more than 600,000 lives. We are not building democracy, we are creating mayhem.
Oct 18, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer