War on Terror

WikiLeaks and War Spending WikiLeaks and War Spending

That big sucking sound you don't hear? That's the war—spending that's getting away with murder.

Oct 27, 2010 / Laura Flanders

A World Made by War A World Made by War

How old will you be when the American war state goes down?

Oct 18, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt

Losing the War’s Beginning Losing the War’s Beginning

War seems simply to be the way it is.  We have always been at war in Afghanistan. We will always be at war in Afghanistan. Or maybe Pakistan. Or both.

Oct 7, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Is Obama’s Use of State Secrets Privilege the New Normal? Is Obama’s Use of State Secrets Privilege the New Normal?

The Obama administration has invoked the state secrets privilege for the second time in less than a month—this time in an effort to shut down discussion of the targeted kil...

Sep 29, 2010 / Ryan Devereaux

Questioning the Cycle of War Questioning the Cycle of War

In our longest war, we have yet to even begin to grapple with the whys of war and the what-war-really-is questions.

Sep 29, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Afghanistan: It’s Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations Afghanistan: It’s Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations

Gilles Dorronsoro, an iconoclastic visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, says Pakistan can deliver the Taliban to the bargaining table. It's time to try it.

Sep 24, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss

Is the Drug War a Class War? Is the Drug War a Class War?

The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts.

Sep 23, 2010 / Laura Flanders

US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters

The businessman also alleges he witnessed Blackwater's cocaine- and hashish-laced "frat parties gone wild" and random shooting at Iraqi civilians.

Sep 23, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater’s Secret Relationship with Multinational Corporations Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater’s Secret Relationship with Multinational Corporations

Jeremy Scahill says secret documents reveal Blackwater's relationships with multinational corporations like Monsanto and Chevron, as well as to foreign governments.

Sep 20, 2010 / Press Room

Let Us Be The Peacemakers Let Us Be The Peacemakers

The most striking American tragedy of these last nine years—far worse than the tragedy of 9/11 itself—is just how weak we have been in the wake of war.

Sep 20, 2010 / Timothy Patrick McCarthy

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