War and Antiwar

  • We can't live with endless war

    This government refuses to respond to the needs and demands of its people, but I refuse to be ignored.

  • Suicides that the Army hides

    According to a soldiers’ advocacy group at Fort Hood, the official suicide figures provided by the Army are “definitely” too low.

  • Blackwater's secret war in Pakistan

    The mercenary firm is working with the U.S. military in Pakistan to plan targeted assassinations and drone attacks, among other counterterrorism operations.

  • Growing up under occupation

    The book IraqiGirl collects a young woman's blog entries to show what life has been like for ordinary Iraqis enduring the U.S. occupation.

  • Where will they get the troops?

    As Washington debates a new surge of troops to Afghanistan, an overstretched military is struggling to meet its deployment numbers.

  • When soldiers are expendable

    The case of Private Timothy Rich shows the disastrous consequences of the military's apathetic attitude toward its own.

  • Where the violence came from

    A member of Iraq Veterans Against the War reflects on the everyday violence that fuels tragedies like the one at Fort Hood.

  • The appeal that Obama refused

    Barack Obama visited Fort Hood following the tragic shooting--but wouldn't accept a letter expressing the concerns of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

  • Why the U.S. has to go

    An outspoken opponent of the occupation of Afghanistan, the country's puppet government and the Taliban explains why the U.S. should get out now.

  • The making of a tragedy

    Even when they weren't filling the air with racist hate, the media's explanations for the shootings at Fort Hood missed the real questions we need to ask.

  • Terrible toll of senseless wars

    The Fort Hood chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and Under the Hood Café respond to the shooting tragedy.

  • The warlords' president

    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.

  • Another promise broken to veterans

    Tens of thousands of veterans are struggling to stay in school because of a bureaucratic snafu involving GI Bill education benefits.

  • The cyber-resistance

    Many soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken to blogging, posting photographs and uploading videos, all related to their experience of the wars.

  • Covered up by a military contractor

    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.

  • More troops for the "good war"?

    Barack Obama--who won the votes of millions of people as a "peace candidate"--is poised to further escalate the war in Afghanistan.

  • A record of concealing atrocities

    The comments of High Court justices in London about a case charging British Army atrocities in Iraq have implications for Northern Ireland.

  • Obama's escalating disaster

    The Obama administration is embroiled in a debate over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's proposal for a further escalation of troops to Afghanistan.

  • Prisoners of the Army

    War resister Travis Bishop has been held almost entirely "incommunicado" at a military prison at Fort Lewis in Washington.

  • A Democratic salesman for war

    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.

  • Where empires go to die

    U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are accused of storming through a hospital in search of "insurgents"--a violation of international law.

  • The death of Adam Hermanson

    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.

  • Time to dump Blackwater

    The mercenary firm Blackwater is facing a new set of shocking revelations about its behavior. So why is it still on the government payroll?

  • Blackwater: CIA assassins?

    Did the mercenary firm Blackwater operate as hired assassins targeting members of al-Qaeda for the Bush administration?

  • When war comes home

    A terrible spree of violence committed by soldiers based at Fort Carson in Colorado is casting a spotlight on the dehumanizing effects of war.