Obama claims we will be out of Afghanistan by 2014. Romney seems to think that is about right, depending on who's asking. Fortunately, there is a third way for America.
Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.24.2012
The dozens of veterans who tossed their medals in Chicago earlier this week deserve to have their protest recorded. Theirs was an act of valor and courage which was arguably equal if not greater to the deeds which earned them those medals in the first place.
Doug Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012
On Memorial Day, I remember some of the most ardent and intense peace enthusiasts I've ever known: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.21.2012
California's North Coast is nearly synonymous with a New Age-y strand of progressivism. For two decades, Rep. Lynn Woolsey has represented it in Congr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.15.2012
WASHINGTON -- The United States must not let itself slide into a war with Iran without more debate and deliberation, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told...
Tom Matzzie | Posted 02.14.2012
America is weary of war and this war has been a psychic trauma on the United States that has shaken core beliefs of many. Now that it is over we must work to end other wars and start nation building here at home.
Rosemarie Pace | Posted 01.29.2012
How wonderful it would be if we could give our children the gift of peace! Too many toys promote violence instead. It doesn't have to be that way.
Hale Dwoskin | Posted 12.21.2011
The bottom line for the OWS movement and for each of us is to find what we can be for as opposed to just resisting and fighting against what we do not want.
Eamon Murphy | Posted 12.10.2011
For some demonstrators, the name of the Occupy Wall Street protest is especially ironic: those whose primary concerns are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- Cynthia Dalton has no health insurance, no home and has been unemployed for five years. She was taken in to live with her family, but he...
Kathleen Deignan | Posted 11.10.2011
So for all our brothers and sisters everywhere who share the incarnate knowledge of what hatred can do, what rageful reactivity can occasion: this song for all who would rebuild a New City.
Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.01.2011
Most of the mainstream media did not do a very good job reporting on Obama's August 30 speech in Minneapolis nor on the protest outside the National Convention of the American Legion to whom he spoke.
Nieman Watchdog | Posted 09.24.2011
The national news media almost totally ignore homefront protests of the Afghanistan war, killer drones, torture, and more, regardless of their newswor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.24.2011
WASHINGTON -- In some of the most bizarre votes seen yet in this Congress, House lawmakers from both parties banded together Friday to rebuke Presiden...
Robert Ellsberg | Posted 08.18.2011
Many people regard my father as a hero. And he is my hero as well. But of course his impact and influence in my life go beyond the public story of protests and activism.
politico.com | DAVID ROGERS | 6/2/11 9:04 PM EDT | Posted 08.03.2011
With surprising bluntness, the top House Democrat on defense and appropriations is warning that President Barack Obama can’t ignore the growing “w...
The Huffington Post | Tim Stenovec | Posted 07.04.2011
May 4 is the 41st anniversary of the shootings at Kent State University, an event that many argue brought the Vietnam War to American soil. Troops ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2011
If you want to level a charge of hypocrisy against Democratic Party lawmakers, knock yourself out. But leave the rest of the "liberal" movement out of it, especially if you can't actually make the case.
Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011
It's critical we start getting offline together to see and hear one another in person and build the strong ties that only come from real-world interaction.
Ted Balaker | Posted 05.25.2011
True conservatives recognize that, whether it's public education or national defense, more spending doesn't guarantee better results. Maybe it is time for the antiwar left and Tea Party to team up in support of defense cuts and ending the wars.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011
Creating art sends a message. Destroying art also sends a message. One wonders what message was intended by the destruction of an anti-war-for-profit mural at the MOCA in LA.
Malou Innocent | Posted 05.25.2011
In these heady days of the holiday season, while you're buying your niece or nephew that last stocking stuffer or cavorting with co-workers at the annual holiday party, keep this striking image of war in mind.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Even as President Obama on Thursday attempts to put a good face on the war in Afghanistan, Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and several dozen...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
While we are indeed currently politically divided and somewhat polarized, this is actually our normal state as a nation -- and on the polarization scale, we're nowhere near the "most divided" we've ever been. Far from it.
Brian Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
If we took the trillions of dollars wasted on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent it on education, we could work miracles.
Gary Johnson | Posted 05.25.2012