Tony Blair's Great Game: Toying With the Chilcot Investigation

Charlotte Dennett, 02.08.2010

Author

George Bush and Tony Blair take heed: The world is watching, and we're not forgetting. Your age of impunity is over. We are now entering the age of accountability.

John Murtha Showed Us How to Be Strong

Tom Matzzie, 02.08.2010

Politics, Media and Technology

Democrats need to be a party that projects strength not through the belligerence of our policies but through the strength of our advocacy. John Murtha showed us how to do this.

If We Can't Beat 'Em, Buy 'Em

Eric Margolis, 02.05.2010

Veteran journalist and Author

Barack Obama is asking Congress for an additional $33 billion more for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. If you can't bomb them into submission, then try buying them off.

The Hurt Locker Doesn't Get This Vet's Vote

Kate Hoit, 02.05.2010

Iraq War Veteran, VoteVets.org

The Hurt Locker is in many ways inaccurate. And the inaccuracies have alienated most service members from enjoying this movie. However, it is better then a lot of the recent war movies that have been released.

The Iraqi Oil Conundrum: Energy and Power in the Middle East

Michael Schwartz, 02.02.2010

Michael Schwartz is an eminent sociologist specializing in the study of insurgency

Will the vast Iraqi oil reserves be developed and sent into the hungry world market any time soon? If they are, who will determine the rate of flow, and so wield the power this decision-making confers?

Sundance: Sons of Babylon

Stewart Nusbaumer, 01.30.2010

Independent journalist roaming the world

Sons of Babylon is not a true story, but the story is true. The actors are not acting, because they're not real actors. A film from Iraq, yet Iraq's film industry is dead.

Why Tony Blair will not be prosecuted for the invasion of Iraq

Richard Hall, 02.01.2010

Writing about human rights, labour rights and the far right.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War was predictably slick. This was always going to be the ...

The British Iraq Inquiry Is Ours Too

Joseph A. Palermo, 01.30.2010

Author/Associate Professor of History

What the United Kingdom is dealing with is the hangover of the crimes of George W. Bush, crimes that have been conveniently swept under the rug on this side of the pond.

My Life as a 'Disgraced Soldier'

Martin Webster, 01.29.2010

I felt like I had been put in an unacceptable situation in Iraq. I didn't join the Army to fight against children, but that's what I did. It's sickening and I felt shame and guilt for having to fight them.

"Patriotism" "Machoism," and Profit: Obama the War President

Myriam Miedzian, 01.28.2010

Author, Boys Will Be Boys. Website: www.myriammiedzian.com

Now embraced by Obama, our long-standing tradition of viewing support for war as patriotic and opposition as unpatriotic plays right into the hands of the people who stand to make money from those wars.

Nick Cannon: The NCredible

Timothy Cooper, 01.29.2010

www.TheCostMag.Com

Cannon's success with creating material for Viacom has made him a true force in today's media circles.

Republicans Use Military as a Stage Prop (Yet Again)... And This Time May Break the Law

Rob Diamond, 01.28.2010

Navy Veteran and Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project

You did not have to be paying much attention during last night's Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address to notice a young Army Staff Sergeant.

Our Wars Are Killing Us

Tom Engelhardt, 01.26.2010

Editor of TomDispatch.com

The good citizens of Massachusetts may be against free rides and bailouts for many types, but not for everybody. I'm speaking about the Pentagon, for which Congress has just passed a record new budget.

Today I Left the Democratic Party

Chris Campbell, 01.22.2010

Music/Technology, Writer, Loud Mouth

With any relationship, when the bad far outweighs the good, perhaps it's time to move on. This is honestly how I've felt for the past few years with the Democratic Party

Data Bombshell Crushes Congolese Death Reports

Georgianne Nienaber, 01.22.2010

Investigative journalist, searcher, and author

A bunker-busting academic data bomb has just been dropped on the long suffering Congolese people after the release of a report by the Human Security Report Project at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Sundance: No Real Rest at Restrepo

Stewart Nusbaumer, 01.22.2010

Independent journalist roaming the world

Restrepo, a documentary, is about a platoon fighting in Afghanistan's notorious Korengal Valley. I embed near Korengal, and nearly bought the big bullet there.

How to Get Bipartisanship and Crush With 59 Senators

Cenk Uygur, 01.22.2010

Host of The Young Turks

Obama needs to realize that you don't swing votes by asking politely, you swing them by implicit political threats. You do it with political force.

Time for Obama to Really Act Like FDR

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 01.22.2010

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

President Obama never encouraged the media concocted, ad man's fantasy land, comparison of him to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He didn't discourage th...

Prescriptions for Mending Broken Government and Averting Spiritual Death

Qanta Ahmed, MD, 01.21.2010

Board Certified Sleep Physician, International Author, "In the Land of Invisible Women"

While ending America's wars sounds logical and direct, I am beginning to doubt I will ever see this in my lifetime, as long or short as it may be. The country has become inextricably engaged in these conflicts.

Bring Back the Draft: A Call for Universal National Service

Jerome Slater, 01.20.2010

Professor Emeritus of political science, SUNY Buffalo

Our challenges cannot be resolved within our current manpower system. They can only be met by reinstituting conscription -- a "draft" -- albeit within a system of mandatory and universal national service.

A Very American Coup: Coming Soon to a Hometown Near You

William Astore, 01.19.2010

Writer, Professor, Retired Lt. Colonel, Air Force

It's September 2016, year 15 of America's "Long War" against terror. As weary troops return to the homeland, a bitter reality assails them: despite their sacrifices, America is losing.