I rise in opposition to HR 2956 which, while a well-intended attempt to reduce our nation's seemingly unlimited military commitment in Iraq, is in so many respects deeply flawed. I have been one of the strongest opponents of military action against Iraq. I voted...
The U.S. military has expelled the son of a leading peace activist for going AWOL after returning from a year tour in Iraq. Specialist Shaun Manuel, whose father Michael McPhearson directs the organization Veterans for Peace, was given a bad-conduct discharge last...
A summary of a draft of a new National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism that has been leaked so much that the pitcher may have gone dry by now reportedly concludes "that al-Qaeda has reconstituted its core structure along the Pakistani border and may now be a...
Updated at 11:45 p.m. EDT, July 14, 2007At least 89 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 64 were wounded during the latest violence. Also, a landmine killed one American soldier, while an EFP killed another soldier and wounded a third in a separate incident. In...
We didn’t just invade Iraq – when we launched "Operation Iraqi Freedom" the American people not only signed on to an occupation that resembles, in many respects, Israel’s occupation of Palestine, we also bought into a serial war strategy, the first of...
What if you spoke regularly of "haji food," "haji music" and "haji homes"? What if your speeding convoys ran over civilians often enough that no one thought to report the incidents? What if your platoon was told pointblank: "The Geneva Conventions don't exist at all...
Despite the media's and official Washington's focus on Iraq and Iran as the most urgent challenges to US foreign policy, a growing chorus of voices is calling for a major shift towards what they regard as the "central front in the war on terror" –...
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who imagines himself as Winston Churchill in temporary political exile, desperately wants to be president. He imagines himself running not just America, but the world. Worse, he thinks that is what the American people want....
Updated at 1:15 a.m. EDT, July 14, 2007At least 100 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 56 more were wounded during violence mostly centered on Baghdad. No foreign casualties were reported, but the dead included an Iraqi reporter who worked for the New York Times.In...
The American political system has failed. The fabled checks and balances of American politics were no match for a neoconservative administration with a secret agenda. The American people were deceived and tricked into supporting two invasions that are war crimes under...
