The Institute for Policy Studies recently published an analysis of the cost of the Iraq War and occupation, "The Iraq Quagmire: The Mounting Costs of War and the Case for Bringing Home the Troops." The study was co-authored by two prominent researchers and...
Uzbekistan Killings Set Off Massive Crackdown
The government of Uzbekistan has been engaged in unprecedented efforts, including massive detentions, torture, and forced confessions, to persuade its people and the outside world that Islamist extremists were responsible for a bloody massacre in Andijan last May,...
Uncertain Anniversary for Iraq War Champions
It was four years ago that a little-known group called the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) published an open letter to President George W. Bush advising him on how precisely he should carry out his brand-new "war on terrorism." In addition to ousting...
Backtalk, September 21, 2005
Why This Soldier Can't Support This WarJustin Gordon: I have a lot of respect for your position. I served in the Navy during the war against Vietnam. Returning to Charleston, S.C., our home port at the time, I informed my captain that I would no longer be able to...
NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan, but Not the Antiwar Movement
They can't stop the antiwar movement, but that doesn't mean they aren't trying. On Monday Sept. 19, Cindy Sheehan spoke in New York City's Union Square to a group of supporters and onlookers when police rushed in to break up her speech as it was winding down. "I was...
Iraq: The Battle of Basra
As the Iraqi police checkpoint in Basra loomed up ahead, the two elite British special forces soldiers dressed in plainclothes, i.e., traditional Arab dress readied their weapons. For some reason, they weren't too eager to be questioned or examined too...
Weapons of Mass Murder
In announcing his preemptive invasion of Iraq, President Bush had this to say: "Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime...
Confronting the Warfare State
The New York Times began this week with an editorial that typifies the media mindset of the warfare state. Monday's editorial warns of dire consequences from a growing deficit that has been boosted by tax cuts in combination with "the pre-Katrina...
Democratic Hallucinations in Afghanistan and Iraq
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The Tragedy of a Complicit Media
Standing before a German cameraman in Biloxi, Miss., Christine Adelhardt, spoke to her countrymen: "Two minutes ago, the president drove past in his convoy. But what has happened in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly recovery units appeared, suddenly...


