Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party?

If you want to know what the future holds in store, just take a look at what John McCain said recently to the AIPAC conference: "Rather than sitting down unconditionally with the Iranian president or supreme leader in the hope that we can talk sense into them, we must...

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Winter Soldiers Hit the Streets

SEATTLE - In a clear change of strategy to energize public antiwar sentiment, Iraq veterans led a determined demonstration of hundreds through the streets of downtown Seattle last Saturday, following regional Winter Soldier hearings at the Seattle Town Hall. A larger...

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‘Atrocity-Producing Situations’

American soldiers have long scrawled messages to the enemy on the bombs they were about to deliver. In the The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes reminds us, for instance, that "Little Boy," the bomb that would inaugurate a new age over Hiroshima, "was...

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Australia Bolts Iraq Over Bush’s Lies

Matilda is waltzing home from Iraq, and the Australians are lucky but chastened. Lucky for having lost not one soldier in combat of the 2,000 sent to join the "coalition of the willing" attack on Iraq in March 2003. Chastened because Australian Prime...

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McCain Vows to Stay the Course in Middle East

In a major address on Middle East policy Monday, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, pledged to maintain the Bush administration's hard line against Iran and expressed strong skepticism about the ability of the current Palestinian...

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Last Call at Gitmo

Like alcoholics queuing up for drinks at closing time, the U.S. government is pressing charges against prisoners at Guantánamo at a frantic rate, anxious to be seen as validating the chronic lawlessness of the last seven years before November's presidential...

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How Cheney Outfoxed His Foes on Iran and EFPs

For many months, the propaganda line that explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) that could penetrate U.S. armored vehicles were coming straight from Iran has been embraced publicly by the entire George W. Bush administration. But when that argument was proposed...

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