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Big Media Hectors Obama on ‘Surge’

For six years, with few exceptions, the Washington press corps has been cheerleading for the Iraq War – and… more

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Promoting Incompetence in Iraq

Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Gens. George Casey, David Petraeus and Ricardo Sanchez have not heeded… more

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Anthropologists At War

New military program that embeds anthropologists with soldiers has academics up in arms

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How to End the War

The central question we need to answer is this: What were the real reasons for the Bush administration's invasion… more

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A Dubious Doc

Just before the election, a film about Iraq hit art house theaters around the country. Voices of Iraq claimed… more

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Breaking the Code of Silence

When members of the Army’s 343rd Quartermaster Company refused orders in Iraq last month they considered too dangerous, it… more

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Fallujah 101

A history lesson about the town we are currently destroying.

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The Liberal Waterloo

(Or, finally some good news from Washington!)

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Why the Vietnam War Still Matters

According to conventional wisdom, we wasted weeks of the 2004 presidential campaign in refighting the Vietnam War. In a… more

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The Home Front

On September 17, it came to pass in New Jersey that party faithful applauding a chipper talk about the… more

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The Promise Keeper

It’s no revelation that the “perception managers” giving our reporters their daily bread from the White House and Pentagon… more

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They Knew

Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned before the war that its Iraq claims were weak

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Expenses We Cannot Afford

In the waning days of the Korean War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, America’s great warrior president, said: “Every gun that… more

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Counting the Costs

With no end in sight, the price for Iraq continues to skyrocket

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We Are What We Watch

A few weeks ago, Fox-TV offered up the finale of “The Swan”—the mutant offspring of the Miss America pageant,… more

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This Wont Hurt Much

For some time now, I’ve been trying to find out where my son goes after choir practice. He simply… more

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The New and Improved Iraq

The so-called transition to sovereignty for Iraq set for June 30 has been trumpeted as a turning point by… more

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Georges Kids

In 1968, the legendary U.S. labor organizer Cesar Chavez went on a 25-day hunger strike. While depriving himself of… more

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Torture and Secrecy

The explosive report on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba may… more

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End of the Barrel

Reading the mea culpas on Iraq from previously pro-invasion pundits and “experts” across the media spectrum these past few… more

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Imperial Barbarians

“That’s not the way we do things in America,” George Bush told an Arab world seething with anger about… more

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Down and Soon Out

Labeling them un-American and a stain on our collective honor, President Bush expressed outrage over atrocities committed at Abu… more

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Portrait of a Rebellion

Shiite insurgency in Iraq bedevils U.S.

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Torture and the Politics of Denial

On April 30, President George W. Bush said, “A year ago I [gave a] speech … saying we had… more

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What Rumsfeld Doesnt Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib

Does anyone still remember the unfortunate Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf? As Saddam’s information minister, he heroically would deny the most… more

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Dungeons and Demons

Among the questions raised by the spiraling scandal of U.S. abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison is this one:… more

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Depleted Morality

The first signs of uranium sickness surface in troops returning from Iraq

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Vietnam Reprise

As In These Times went to press, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were appearing together… more

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Candidate Conundrum

Kerry must deal with Bush’s legacy of chaos

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Power of the Possible

More mainstream than the mainstream, the silent majority finds its voice

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Jobless Recovery

By outsourcing labor, U.S. planners of Iraqi “democracy” do not include unions

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Into the Fire

Baghdad—I heard the sound of freedom in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, the famous plaza where the statue of Saddam Hussein… more

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Outside the Inside

Last March, as U.S. troops were preparing to launch the invasion of Iraq, a much quieter war was taking… more

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Halfway There

We’re not accustomed to giving President George W. Bush kudos for a job well done, but in one regard… more

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Transparency Now

After months of refusing to admit that his administration may be guilty of misleading the American people on the… more

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Coming to Grief

Like the breeze of late winter, a single word, unspoken, has rippled through the recent funerals of several U.S.… more

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War Profiteering and You

So the vice president’s former employer’s been in the news a lot lately. Bilking the U.S. government for millions… more

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Faulty Intelligence

The commission appointed by President George W. Bush to look into WMD-related “intelligence failures” can be considered “independent” only… more

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Military Families Against the War

Millions of Americans are anxious about and even opposed to the American war on Iraq and to the bloody… more

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When Warriors Dissent

“If… more

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