War and Antiwar : Eric Ruder As Barack Obama becomes responsible for U.S. wars, the antiwar movement has to decide how best to organize for its core principles.
December 12, 2008 Two antiwar veterans talk about why they opened Coffee Strong, a GI coffeehouse outside Fort Lewis in Washington.
December 9, 2008 : Duane Linton A U.S. Army medic describes the day that changed his life--an attack on a convoy of unarmed farmers and the bloody consequences.
December 8, 2008 : Eric Ruder To antiwar U.S. soldiers and ordinary Afghans, the consequences of a sharp increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan are predictable and dire.
December 4, 2008 : Eric Ruder U.S. and Iraqi officials have signed an agreement that sets a withdrawal date for U.S. troops. Does this mean the occupation is ending?
November 20, 2008 : Michael Ratner A proposal being floated for a preventive detention law is akin to throwing gasoline on a fire that I hoped was almost extinguished.
November 19, 2008 : Aaron Glantz A new book collects the powerful testimony at Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War.
October 31, 2008 : Patrick Cockburn Negotiations between the U.S. and Iraqi governments are tense over a status of forces agreement that sets the terms of the continued presence of the occupiers.
October 30, 2008 Rumors of possible peace talks in Afghanistan are raising hopes that the U.S. war might end. But these hopes seem based on wishes, not facts.
October 30, 2008 : Nicole Colson The U.S. commando raid in Syria was the first of its kind--and sets a precedent for a dangerous expansion of the "war on terror."
October 29, 2008 Lt. Ehren Watada scored a victory in the war he is willing to fight when a federal court ruled he couldn't be subjected to another trial on three key charges.
October 24, 2008 : Michael Schwartz A new book on the Iraq war sets out both an analysis of U.S. motives in launching the invasion and a description of the consequences for Iraqis.
October 24, 2008 : Giovanni Roberto The families of Orville Gómez Santiago and Santos López Morales are speaking out about what these men endured in the Army.
October 22, 2008 : Ashley Smith An antiwar organizer argues that it's time for the movement to raise its expectations and its voice against both parties' plans for war and occupation.
October 17, 2008 : Richard Stacewicz Winter Soldiers brings together the voices of members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War to tell an often-neglected story from the antiwar movement.
October 10, 2008 : Michael Schwartz The mainstream media insist that conditions in Iraq have improved under a "fragile peace." But the reality is fraught with conflict and complications.
October 9, 2008 : Dahr Jamail Beyond the Green Zone goes beyond the polished desks of the corporate media to tell firsthand the reality of life in Iraq.
October 3, 2008 : Camilo Mejía The first U.S. soldier to refuse to redeploy to Iraq explains how he came to write his book, Road from Ar Ramadi.
September 26, 2008 Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War discuss the group's actions at the Democratic and Republican conventions and the lessons to learned.
September 25, 2008 : Paul Heideman The Bush administration's propaganda surge may have convinced the media, but conditions for Iraqis are still miserable.
September 10, 2008 At their conferences in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace discussed and debated the struggle ahead.
September 8, 2008 Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of St. Paul, Minn., calling for an end to the war in Iraq, among many other issues.
September 2, 2008 : Eric Ruder The ferocity of the fighting in Afghanistan shows that the stakes for the U.S. are getting higher--as are the demands on the U.S. antiwar movement.
August 22, 2008 : Eric Ruder Why do Barack Obama, George Bush and Nuri al-Maliki seem to be converging around a similar policy for the future of the U.S. occupation of Iraq?
July 25, 2008 : Lee Sustar The U.S. is dangling carrots in front of Iran to suspend uranium enrichment--but only after smacking them with increasingly big sticks.
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