War and Antiwar

  • Some 15,000 protesters took to the Chicago streets on a sweltering Sunday in the culmination of a week of protests against the NATO summit. May 21, 2012

  • An Afghan opponent of war and oppression sends a message of support for the protests against the NATO summit in Chicago. May 18, 2012

  • Barack Obama's midnight run to Afghanistan last week was an act of political theater designed maintain a U.S. troop presence in the country. May 7, 2012

  • Thousands will take to the streets of Chicago when over 50 heads of state gather on May 20-21 for a summit of the NATO military alliance. April 30, 2012

  • After 10 years of war and occupation, it's long past time for ordinary Afghans to be able to decide their own fate without U.S. interference. April 10, 2012

  • The massacre of Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier is the predictable consequence of a war sustained by an enormous lie. March 28, 2012

  • The latest atrocity committed by a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan is the inevitable result of 10 years of war and occupation. March 26, 2012

  • Organizers of an anti-war coffeehouse document the systemic problems that helped lead to a massacre in Afghanistan. March 13, 2012

  • A week of furious protests at the burning of the Koran by U.S. troops at Bagram Air Base is shaking Afghanistan. February 29, 2012

  • An independent report by a U.S. Army colonel sharply criticizes the rosy assessments of the U.S./NATO occupation of Afghanistan. February 21, 2012

  • 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