War and Antiwar : Eric Ruder Afghanistan's election farce came to a laughable end when Hamid Karzai was declared the winner after his rival dropped out of a run-off vote.
November 4, 2009 : Martin Smith Tens of thousands of veterans are struggling to stay in school because of a bureaucratic snafu involving GI Bill education benefits.
October 30, 2009 : Dahr Jamail Many soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken to blogging, posting photographs and uploading videos, all related to their experience of the wars.
October 28, 2009 : Rachel Cohen Jamie Leigh Jones was raped in Iraq while working for KBR--and the company has done everything it can ever since to stop her from getting justice.
October 26, 2009 : Elizabeth Schulte Barack Obama--who won the votes of millions of people as a "peace candidate"--is poised to further escalate the war in Afghanistan.
October 21, 2009 : Eamonn McCann The comments of High Court justices in London about a case charging British Army atrocities in Iraq have implications for Northern Ireland.
October 14, 2009 : Gareth Porter The Obama administration is embroiled in a debate over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's proposal for a further escalation of troops to Afghanistan.
October 7, 2009 : Dahr Jamail War resister Travis Bishop has been held almost entirely "incommunicado" at a military prison at Fort Lewis in Washington.
September 30, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill Cruise-missile liberal Jamie Rubin has seldom seen a war he didn't like, so it's no surprise that he's hitting cable shows to support escalating the war in Afghanistan.
September 23, 2009 : Dahr Jamail U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are accused of storming through a hospital in search of "insurgents"--a violation of international law.
September 21, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill The family of military contractor Adam Hermanson wants to know what caused his electrocution death--and why they can't get answers from his employer.
September 17, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill The mercenary firm Blackwater is facing a new set of shocking revelations about its behavior. So why is it still on the government payroll?
September 2, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill Did the mercenary firm Blackwater operate as hired assassins targeting members of al-Qaeda for the Bush administration?
August 25, 2009 : Nicole Colson A terrible spree of violence committed by soldiers based at Fort Carson in Colorado is casting a spotlight on the dehumanizing effects of war.
August 11, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill Since Barack Obama took office in January, the State Department has contracted with Blackwater for more than $174 million in "security services."
August 11, 2009 : Holly Lewis Spc. Victor Agosto faced a summary court-martial last week for his refusal to deploy to Afghanistan--but to his supporters, it was the war itself that was on trial.
August 10, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill A former Blackwater employee and an ex-U.S. Marine who worked for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements.
August 6, 2009 : Michael Schwartz The "withdrawal" of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities is part of the redesign of an ongoing occupation, carried out for both American and Iraqi consumption.
July 22, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill The focus is on the Bush-era CIA assassination program, but political murder by the American empire has always been a bipartisan affair.
July 21, 2009 More than 200 people attended a conference of the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations.
July 20, 2009 : Zaineb Alani The sad truth is that there has been no withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq--and there is nothing for Iraqis to thank the U.S. government for.
July 16, 2009 : Michael Schwartz The Obama administration has already proven that, like its predecessor, it remains committed to maintaining that "access to and flow of energy resources" in Iraq.
July 13, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill Under the presidency of Barack Obama, the U.S. has already bombed Pakistan numerous times, using Predator drones.
June 25, 2009 : David Lloyd In the wake of Israel's Gaza onslaught earlier this year, a group of U.S. academics has called for the academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions.
June 25, 2009 : Phil Aliff The once-forgotten "good war" in Afghanistan now captures headlines daily as NATO forces face intensified fighting and further instability.
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