Obama on Iraq’s ‘Ending’:
A Speech for Endless War
September 6, 2010
By Norman Solomon
Beaver County Peace Links via Z-Net 

On the last night of August, the president used an Oval Office speech to boost a policy of perpetual war.
Hours later, the New York Times front page offered a credulous gloss for the end of “the […]

Photo: Walled West Bank Settlement Construction
Israel and Palestine: A true one-state solution
By George Bisharat
Washington Post Op-Ed
Friday, September 3, 2010
"Where is the Palestinian Mandela?" pundits occasionally ask. But after these latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail — as they inevitably will — the more pressing question may be: "Where is the Israeli de […]

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 […]

UAW’s King, Jesse Jackson lead Detroit
Aug. 28 March for Jobs, Peace and Justice

August 28, 2010 http://detnews.com/article/20100828/METRO/8280383
SANTIAGO ESPARZA The Detroit News
Detroit — The chants of thousands of people demanding jobs filled the air downtown as UAW President Bob King and the […]

One Nation Working Together - 10.2.10, DC Get Ready To March, This One is Going To Be Big!
It should be of no surprise that in an August 13th Gallup Poll the economy in general and unemployment/ jobs specifically topped the list of public concerns. The economy and jobs grabbed 58% of responses […]

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 […]

We’re Now the Antiwar Majority,
So Who Will Represent Us in 2010?
Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan
Aug 20, 2010 LAWRENCE, MASS — A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more […]

Iraq Withdrawal?
Don’t Believe the Hype,
We’ve Still Got a Way to Go
Posted by Jean Desiree
Beaver County Peace Links via CodePink

If you’re feeling skeptical after hearing President Obama’s latest speech on the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, you’re not alone.

It’s hard to know what to make of a President and an administration […]

Last Chance for Pakistan
Ahmed Rashid
Beaver County Peace Links via New York Review of Books
Though it has received only moderate attention in the western press, the torrential flooding of large swaths of Pakistan since late July may be the most catastrophic natural disaster to strike the country in half a century. But even greater than […]