About Face:
The Growing Antiwar
Movement in the Military
by Marc Cooper
The Nation via Portside
January 8, 2007
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070108/cooper
Mark Dearden chooses his words with extreme precision. And not just with the deliberateness of a 36-year-old with a BA from Brigham Young, an MA in public health from Tulane and an MD from George Washington University.
Dearden is also an active-duty lieutenant […]

Democrats Prepare
to Fund Longer War
Reid: More Troops to Iraq!
By Alexander Cockburn
CounterPunch, Dec. 19
http://www.counterpunch.org
This last Sunday Harry Reid, the incoming Democratic majority leader in the US Senate, went on ABC’s Sunday morning show and declared that a hike in U.S. troops in Iraq is okay with him.
Here’s the evolution of the Democrats’ war platform since November […]

[Pat Buchanan is an antiwar voice on the conservative right who opposed the war from the beginning. Perhaps that unique position enables this piece to be rather astute in evaluating all the players.]
Coming GOP War
— Over the War!
By Patrick J. Buchanan
December 12, 2006
“I believe this is a recipe that will lead to our […]

Asia Times Online
THE ROVING EYE
US stays the course
for Big Oil in Iraq
By Pepe Escobar
http://tinyurl.com/yd4j3s
Washington at large and President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in particular may apply every contortionist trick in the geopolitical book to save their skins in Iraq - and the reasons are not entirely political.
In addition to the recently […]

Dave Cline, VVAW, right
Sir! No Sir!
Reflections on the
Anti-War Documentary
by Jerry Lembcke
History News Network
via Zmag.org
November 06, 2006
The new documentary about the Vietnam-era GI anti-war movement, Sir! No Sir!, opened in theaters during the spring and summer of 2006. The film compiles the historical record of the rank-and-file rebellion that grew during the war […]

The Baker Agenda:
Troops out,
Oil Companies in?
By Tom Hayden
CommonDreams.org
December 8, 2006
Recommendations 62 and 63 in the Iraq Study Group Report confirm that control of Iraqi oil is a fundamental premise of Administration policy.
This was denied in the first years of the war, but this week the President confirmed his belief that Islamic extremists will “gain access […]

‘No Blood for Oil!’
Energy and the
Roots of War
By Carl Bloice
‘Left Margin’ Column
in The Black Commentator
http://tinyurl.com/yg8q4y
November 30, 2006
There’s one important thing the new Congress could do that would be really worthwhile, and that would be to revisit the question of the mysterious energy task force, or National Energy Policy Development Group, assembled by Vice-President Dick Cheney […]

There is Only One Way
to End The War in Iraq
By Rep. Dennis Kucinich
December 1, 2006
The Huffington Post
On November 7, 2006, the American public voted for a New Direction for our Iraq policy. That direction is–out. As Democrats prepare to take the majority for the first time in twelve years, Democrats now have the responsibility to […]

Laura Cleveland of Riverside, Barbara Thompson of Berwyn, Beverly Walter of Riverside, and Laurel Lambert Schmidt–all local antiwar activists–exiting Rep. Dan Lipinski’s office.
The Antiwar Majority’s Vote Is Clear on Getting Out of Iraq
Will Congressman Lipinski
Decide to Represent Them?
By NWCPJ
December 1, 2006
Representatives of Near West Citizens for Peace and Justice (NWCPJ) met with Representative Dan […]