War and Antiwar

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Under the presidency of Barack Obama, the U.S. has already bombed Pakistan numerous times, using Predator drones. June 25, 2009

  • 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

  • The once-forgotten "good war" in Afghanistan now captures headlines daily as NATO forces face intensified fighting and further instability. June 24, 2009

  • Our delegation of 65 American and international activists traveled to Gaza to witness the destruction from what Palestinians call "the last war." June 22, 2009

  • Antiwar authors Jeremy Scahill and Anthony Arnove analyze the record of the Obama administration on foreign policy after five months in office. June 17, 2009

  • Barack Obama's Cairo speech heralds a shift from the Islamophobic rhetoric of the Bush regime--but not the long-term aims of the U.S. empire. June 12, 2009

  • Once you strip away the courtesies, the substance of President Obama's speech in Cairo indicates there is likely to be little real change in U.S. policy. June 8, 2009

  • The paranoia that veterans carry when they return home seems so out of place, but we will never be able to put the war behind us. June 4, 2009

  • The U.S. military has attacked and killed journalists in wars around the globe--and continues to unjustly imprison some. June 2, 2009

  • A soldier at Fort Hood is refusing to deploy to Afghanistan--and being as public as possible about it, in the hopes of inspiring others to follow him. May 26, 2009

  • The Pentagon has appointed a new general to run the war in Afghanistan, but it's still following an old strategy that is causing massive civilian casualties. May 18, 2009

  • An ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the portrait of the torture of detainees inside and outside Guantánamo. May 18, 2009

  • The deadly toll of combat stress was illustrated starkly when a U.S. soldier shot and killed five of his fellow soldiers in Iraq. May 15, 2009

  • Barack Obama's meeting with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan is political cover for a military escalation on both sides of the border. May 8, 2009

  • A surge of violence in Iraq shows the continuing conflicts lying just below the surface--and could shake up U.S. plans to shift forces to Afghanistan. May 4, 2009

  • Today, I stood before the Army, looked a board of officers in the eyes, and told them I thought they were sending people off to participate in war crimes. April 23, 2009

  • If George Bush were the one proposing what Barack Obama did at the NATO summit, a lot of people would now be railing against him. April 22, 2009

  • In a victory for the Bush lawyers who justified torture, the Obama administration cut a deal with CIA torturers not to prosecute them. April 21, 2009

  • Reading a new report supporting President Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan is a reminder of how much neoliberals and neocons are alike. April 9, 2009

  • Barack Obama has dropped the rhetoric about the "war on terror," but that doesn't mean he's given up on broader objectives of the 2001 invasion. April 6, 2009

  • The East Coast Campus Antiwar Network conference provided a much-needed discussion on how to move forward. April 1, 2009