[The following three articles–by Elbaum, Nichols, and the LA Times–give a pretty good account of a remarkable weekend.]
The Anti-Surge Gets Rolling
By Max Elbaum
January 29, 2007
War Times/Tiempo de Guerras
It’s not about Bush’s surge anymore. It’s the Antiwar Surge that’s capturing the headlines and threatening to upset all the warmakers’ calculations.
On Jan. 27 […]

Fed Up Soldiers
Finding New Ways
to Protest the War

By Jeanine Plant
AlterNet.org
January 24, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/47085/
There is a strict protocol for military dissent. A service member can exercise free speech, for example, but she should be off-duty. She can protest the war, but not in uniform.
In an unprecedented move, 1,171 service members signed the Appeal for Redress — […]

[Whatever the range of positions among Iraqis, our stand toward our government is a firm ‘Out Now.’ This interview, however, among many revelations, shows how the Bush administration has sabotaged political solutions from every quarter in Iraq. –Editor]

Iraqis Meet with
US Peace Activists
By Lisa Farino
and Medea Benjamin
Yes! Magazine
January 12, 2007
What would it take to […]

BUSH’S ‘NEW DIRECTION’
Desperately Seeking Victory
By Phylis Bennis
ZNet Commentary
January 10, 2007
Bush’s “new direction” will escalate the war by deploying thousands more U.S. combat troops, sending potentially a billion dollars in economic support aid into Iraq, and putting more blame for the occupation’s failure on Iraqis themselves.
The strategy differs very little from the existing one, except to […]

Democrats Split
Over Iraq Approach
By JEFF ZELENY
The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 — The new Democratic majority in Congress is divided over how to assert its power in opposing President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Baghdad, as leaders explore ways to block financing for a military expansion without being accused of abandoning American […]

Voting to Bring
the Troops Home
By Ricky Baldwin
Z Magazine
January 2007
http://tinyurl.com/vslbp
Press reports nationwide proclaimed the most recent U.S. elections a “referendum” on the war in Iraq and on the president’s performance and policies, but mostly without noting the hundreds of actual referendum votes on these very issues in towns and counties from California to Massachusetts. Adding legitimacy […]