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Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign

Clinton and Obama each have nuanced plans to ban private security firms from Iraq. The difference is how they're spinning them.

Mar 18, 2008 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

Blackwater, the Campaign Issue Blackwater, the Campaign Issue

In this interview with RealNews, Nation Correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ on the use of private security contractors in Iraq.

Mar 18, 2008 / Video / Jeremy Scahill and The Nation Video

The Experts Speak on Iraq The Experts Speak on Iraq

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.

Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf

Final Fantasy Final Fantasy

Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.

Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Waldstreicher

Reviving Vietnam War Tactics Reviving Vietnam War Tactics

One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.

Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Tom Hayden

A Garden of Monsters A Garden of Monsters

The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.

Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa

The War and the Working Class The War and the Working Class

Young people drawn into combat by the "economic draft" are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.

Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Michael Zweig

The Wages of Peace The Wages of Peace

Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.

Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier

Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did! Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did!

Unwise words from the "experts" who promised a cost-free war.

Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf

It’s the War Economy, Stupid! It’s the War Economy, Stupid!

Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.

Mar 13, 2008 / Editorial / The Editors

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