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 […]

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. […]

A Defining Vote on Afghanistan

By Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Nation, July 1, 2010
More than six months after the implementation of the Obama/McChrystal strategy, and with one year to go before the beginning withdrawal of US forces, it’s clear that the strategy in Afghanistan is failing on nearly all fronts. [1]
It’s critical that we now […]