War and Antiwar

  • Their empty talk of liberating Afghan women

    The barring of Malalai Joya from the U.S. underlines the hypocrisy of the U.S. claim that it is liberating women in Afghanistan.

  • The West goes to war for oil and power

    The attack on Libya will be portrayed as a "humanitarian" mission, but the bombs of the U.S. and its allies are never used to save lives or bring justice.

  • Ray McGovern deserves an apology

    Veteran Ray McGovern was violently removed from a Hillary Clinton speech for the "crime" of turning his back to her.

  • The mirage of military cuts

    The media is lapping up the Pentagon's claim that it is making painful "cuts" in spending--even as the military budget continues to grow.

  • Afghanistan is open for business

    The conditions of Afghans living under NATO's occupation are secondary to corporate profit-seeking and the geopolitical interests of powerful states.

  • Why are U.S. troops still stuck in Afghanistan?

    A soldier who did two tours of duty in Afghanistan reflects on the futile--and costly--efforts of the U.S. to "win" the war.

  • Fooling the superpower

    A man from Quetta in Afghanistan got away with at least $100,000 after impersonating a Taliban commander in negotiations with NATO forces.

  • Sending injured soldiers to war

    Iraq Veterans Against the War has launched a new campaign to end the military's deployment of wounded soldiers.

  • The war on WikiLeaks

    The latest secrets revealed by WikiLeaks show the terrible legacy of the U.S. war on Iraq--but U.S. political leaders are trying to shoot the messenger.

  • A new stage in the war on dissent

    The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights on the escalating assault on civil liberties in the wake of the FBI raids on antiwar and socialist activists.

  • The real story of Pat Tillman

    The director of a new film about a football star who joined the military and was killed by friendly fire goes beyond the myths.

  • Afghanistan atrocities exposed

    Twelve U.S. soldiers are facing trial for the horrific murder of Afghan civilians "for sport" and the cover-up that followed.

  • Bradley Manning's heroic fight

    If the government's charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning are true, then he is a hero, not a criminal, says the founder of a Web site defending him.

  • The postwar war in Iraq

    Barack Obama hasn't ended the war on Iraq. He's launched the next phase, with U.S. combat troops artfully reclassified as "advise-and-assist brigades."

  • A "war on terror" nightmare

    Omar Khadr's case exposes the most obscene aspects of the U.S. "war on terror"--and the Obama administration's lies designed to justify it.

  • The withdrawal that isn't

    The Obama administration is declaring the end of the U.S. war on Iraq, but the reality is that tens of thousands of U.S. troops will remain behind.

  • Looking past the evidence

    Barack Obama may heave a sigh of relief at the lack of response to the WikiLeaks documents, but the war on Afghanistan remains a failure.

  • Antiwar activists look ahead

    Activists gathered at the United National Antiwar Conference to discuss strategies and the next steps for the movement.

  • The terrible truth about the "good war"

    WikiLeaks' release of thousands of documents on Afghanistan has left the Obama administration and its war partners trying to defend the indefensible.

  • The go-along-to-get-along media

    The fallout from Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings' exposé of Gen. Stanley McChrystal shows how pathetic the mainstream media really is.

  • The quagmire gets worse

    Despite the hand wringing over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's "inappropriate" comments, the real issue is the failure of Obama's war in Afghanistan.

  • Assessing the Afghan surge

    The U.S. military is preparing for its largest assault yet in the nine-year war--while the battlefield news gets worse by the day.

  • The Pentagon's stockpile for Afghanistan

    The U.S. military is taking bids from private contractors to ship massive amounts of equipment through Pakistan to Afghanistan.

  • The Times Square bomb frenzy

    The car bomb that failed to detonate in Times Square has led to a new round of attacks on Arabs and Muslims--and everyone's civil liberties.

  • A massacre caught on video

    The release of a classified video of U.S. troops gunning down two reporters in Iraq has unleashed a storm of criticism.