Despite WikiLeaks Revelations,
Congress Votes for War Funding
By Tom Hayden
July 29, 2010 - Never was the case so weak for throwing another $33 billion into the Afghanistan sinkhole, but that’s what a defensive US Congress did anyway on Tuesday evening, July 27. The vote was 308-114, with Republicans supplying most of the prowar votes.
Washington-based […]

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. […]

The Military
Occupation
of Our Minds
 
By Tom Hayden
Huffington Post
April 27, 2010 - As Congress weighs Afghanistan funding, the military is escalating what it calls the "war of perceptions" at home and abroad. The question is whether the American media and Congress will collaborate in the Pentagon’s press strategy or retain a critical edge.
It is […]

No Chance Obama’s War
in Afghanistan Will Succeed
 
By Sherwood Ross L.A. Progressive
Dec. 26, 2009 - "There isn’t the slightest possibility that the course laid out by Barack Obama in his December 1 speech (at West Point) will halt or even slow the downward spiral toward defeat in Afghanistan," writes […]

Obama’s Indecent Interval
  
Despite the U.S. president’s pleas to the contrary,
the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
 
BY THOMAS H. JOHNSON, M. CHRIS MASON | DECEMBER 10, 2009

As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, truth is ridiculed, then denied, and then “accepted as having been obvious to everyone from the beginning.”
So […]

Photo:
Private Contractors

Private contractors
now outnumber U.S.
troops in Iraq
New U.S. data show how heavily
the Bush administration has relied
on corporations to carry out the
occupation of the war-torn nation.
By T. Christian Miller
LA Times Staff Writer
July 4, 2007
The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about […]

Blackwater
Mercenaries:
Outsourcing
the War
by Jeremy Scahill
The Nation
May 12, 2007
Illinois is the site of a new Blackwater training camp. CAWI is among a number of peace and justice groups working to oppose it, with details at the Yahoo group, NoPrivateArmies. Jeremy Scahill, bestselling author and investigative reporter for The Nation, testified May 10 before the House Appropriations […]