War and Antiwar

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • What are the wider implications of the U.S. abandoning its plans for maintaining an ongoing military presence in Iraq? November 21, 2011

  • After 10 years of war in Afghanistan, neither the U.S. nor British governments can point to a single significant achievement. October 24, 2011

  • The assassination of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen represents a dramatic escalation of the war on civil liberties. October 3, 2011

  • A meeting of veterans' families and supporters near Fort Lewis revealed the causes of an epidemic of military suicides. September 12, 2011

  • 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

  • An antiwar veteran and the wife of a soldier who committed suicide confronted former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. September 1, 2011

  • The Afghan government--and the NATO occupation that props it up--was shaken by the killing of Hamid Karzai's brother. July 19, 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The U.S. has indicated it has no intention of leaving Afghanistan, even though its strategy shows no promise of success. May 19, 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The hypocrisy and double standards of NATO's Libya campaign flow directly from the West's overarching agenda. March 31, 2011

  • The horrific photos of U.S. soldiers posing with the dead and mutilated bodies of Afghan civilians have shocked the world. March 28, 2011