Let’s Fact Check the AP’s
Fact Checking on Obama’s Speech

By David Swanson
Beaver County Peace Links via WarIsNotaCrime.org
FACT CHECK: Is Iraq combat really over for US?
By CALVIN WOODWARD and ROBERT BURNS (AP)
WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama’s declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead. And in […]

US Military ‘Overwhelmed’ by
Mental Health Problems of Soldiers
Thousands Strain Fort Hood’s Mental Health System
by Gregg Zoroya
Beaver County Peace Links via the August 23, 2010, USA Today
FORT HOOD, Texas - Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation’s largest Army post can measure the toll […]

US Combat Ends in Iraq,
But Will Iraq ‘Invite’ US to Stay?
 
By Tom Hayden
Progressive America Rising
While the Obama administration struggles to keep its pledge to end the Iraq war, a behind-the-scenes plan is developing in which the Baghdad regime “invites” the American military to stay.
Managing the withdrawal of combat troops was a significant […]

Iraq: What Will the Remaining
50,000 U.S. Troops Do?
By Mark Thompson / Washington
Beaver County Peace Links via Time Magazine
Aug 20, 2010 - There was a sigh of relief at the Pentagon Wednesday as the U.S. Army’s final combat brigade crossed from Iraq into Kuwait. Generals and their staffs have spent nearly a decade juggling […]

Why WikiLeaks Won’t Stop the War
 
By Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
Aug 12, 2010 - The War Logs—a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet by the organization WikiLeaks—documents a grim struggle becoming grimmer, from the U.S. perspective. And for the Afghans, a mounting horror.
The […]

October 6, 2002 - Central Park, New York City
The Peace Movement (What Happened & What Next.)
 
by Michael T. McPhearson
Veterans for Peace, UFPJ
July 2010 – The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States has laid bare a number of weaknesses in the peace and anti-war movements. Perhaps most notable is our […]

America: Hooked on War
and Getting Poorer
By Clancy Sigal
The Guardian, July 15, 2010
There’s plenty of good money to be made / Supplyin’ the army with tools of the trade … – Country Joe and the Fish
I hallucinate easily, a hangover from time spent in an acid-rock commune in […]

Hope and Change Fade, but War Endures

By: William J. Astore 
TomDispatch | Op-Ed
July 8, 2010 - If one quality characterizes our wars today, it’s their endurance. They never seem to end. Though war itself may not be an American inevitability, these days many factors combine to make constant war an American near certainty. […]

Afghan War: Shocking Rise in US
Casualties, Lack of Reporting
 
By Tom Hayden
Huffington Post
Despite rhetoric about military patriots and wounded warriors, the White House, Pentagon and mainstream media have minimized attention to startling increases in Afghanistan deaths and casualties suffered by American troops since 2008.
US death tolls in Afghanistan have risen by 273 percent this […]

The ‘Long War’ Quagmire
The doctrine, which posits an 80-year or so war against insurgents in the Middle East to South Asia, needs more scrutiny.
 
By Tom Hayden
March 28, 2010
Without public debate and without congressional hearings, a segment of the Pentagon and fellow travelers have embraced a doctrine known as the Long War, […]