War and Antiwar : Danny Lucia The slaughter in Iraq caused by the U.S. war places America among history's worst villains--and the silence among politicians and the media is deafening.
January 30, 2012 : Ashley Smith Rather than "sovereign, stable and self-reliant," as Barack Obama bragged, post-occupation Iraq may be poised to descend into a three-cornered civil war.
January 17, 2012 : Eric Ruder In February 2003, some 10 million people took to the streets around the world to oppose the U.S. drive to war in Iraq.
January 13, 2012 : Danny Lucia Now that U.S. forces have pulled out of Iraq, what happened during the nine years of occupation is undergoing a rewrite.
January 11, 2012 : Michael Schwartz What are the wider implications of the U.S. abandoning its plans for maintaining an ongoing military presence in Iraq?
November 21, 2011 : Eamonn McCann After 10 years of war in Afghanistan, neither the U.S. nor British governments can point to a single significant achievement.
October 24, 2011 : Nicole Colson The assassination of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen represents a dramatic escalation of the war on civil liberties.
October 3, 2011 : Nicole Bowmer A meeting of veterans' families and supporters near Fort Lewis revealed the causes of an epidemic of military suicides.
September 12, 2011 : Anthony Arnove Ten years after the tragic events of September 11, the world is still reeling from the consequences of that day--and the U.S. wars that followed.
September 11, 2011 The wife of an Army Ranger sent to Iraq and Afghanistan eight times describes the issues that led him to take his own life.
September 7, 2011 : Jorge Gonzalez An antiwar veteran and the wife of a soldier who committed suicide confronted former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
September 1, 2011 : Eric Ruder The Afghan government--and the NATO occupation that props it up--was shaken by the killing of Hamid Karzai's brother.
July 19, 2011 : Eamonn McCann The doctrine of humanitarian intervention has become accepted without question across the political mainstream.
July 13, 2011 Forums held in June by the antiwar group ANSWER opposed the U.S. bombing of Libya--but also portrayed the Qaddafi regime as progressive.
July 12, 2011 : Daphne Eviatar The author of a new report explains how Afghan men disappear into the U.S. prisons at Bagram--and don't come out for years.
June 29, 2011 : Eamonn McCann The United Arab Emirates has paid $529 million to a company set up by Blackwater boss Eric Prince to recruit and train a mercenary army.
May 24, 2011 : Helen Redmond The U.S. has indicated it has no intention of leaving Afghanistan, even though its strategy shows no promise of success.
May 19, 2011 : Mike Marqusee The record of U.S. and British intervention in non-Western countries reveals not altruism but ruthless self-interest.
May 12, 2011 Barack Obama is using the assassination of bin Laden to build up popular support for U.S. military actions abroad and his own reelection at home.
May 10, 2011 : Nicole Colson Politicians and the media are using the death of Osama bin Laden to retroactively justify the torture of detainees in the "war on terror."
May 9, 2011 : Elizabeth Schulte The U.S. government has a long and sordid history of carrying out political murders--against former allies and longtime enemies alike.
May 5, 2011 : Lee Wengraf The U.S.-led invasion of Somalia in 1992 came cloaked in statements about peace and altruism--but Somalis were left decidedly worse off.
April 14, 2011 Two leading activists talk about building an alliance of Muslims, labor and the antiwar movement ahead of this weekend's antiwar mobilizations.
April 5, 2011 : Mike Marqusee The hypocrisy and double standards of NATO's Libya campaign flow directly from the West's overarching agenda.
March 31, 2011 : Rory Fanning The horrific photos of U.S. soldiers posing with the dead and mutilated bodies of Afghan civilians have shocked the world.
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