Death to a Nation

Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Ayn Codina of Costa Rica, 2nd-place winner in the junior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com War can mean power, land,...

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The Pentagon vs.
Press Freedom

We often hear that the Pentagon exists to defend our freedoms. But the Pentagon is moving against press freedom. Not long ago, journalist Sarah Olson received a subpoena to testify next month in the court-martial of U.S. Army Lt. Ehren Watada, who now faces...

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Hillary Clinton and
the Israel Lobby

George W. Bush's position on Iran is "disturbing" and "dangerous," reads a position paper written in late 2005 by American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). One year ago the Bush administration accepted a Russian proposal to allow Iran to continue to develop...

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The Fatal Conceit
in the Middle East

Former President Carter's new book about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised the ire of Americans on two sides of the debate. I say "two sides" rather than "both sides," because there is another perspective that is never discussed in American...

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A US Soldier Speaks Out
From Baghdad

More than 1,000 active-duty U.S. soldiers have signed a petition to Congress – known as an appeal for redress – calling for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq. Among them is Sgt. Ronn Cantu of Los Angeles, Calif. He served in Iraq with the 1st...

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Bush Continues to Unite the World… Against Him

Despite two years of a concentrated effort by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her public diplomacy major-domo Karen Hughes to boost Washington's global image, more people around the world have an unfavorable opinion of U.S. policies than at any time in recent...

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Rebellion Over Iraq:
Son Against Father

There have been pop psychology explanations that attribute President Bush 43's aggressive foreign policy decisions to a rivalry with President Bush 41 – for example, ascribing junior's invasion of Iraq as a reaction to his father's writings about the pitfalls of...

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The X Factor in 2008 – Iran

After a weekend in which 29 Americans died and the 82nd Airborne deployed in Baghdad, what the Iraq war will mean to the politics of 2008 becomes clear. Hillary Clinton's early Saturday announcement of her exploratory committee was brilliantly executed and captured...

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