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Jon Ward

Iraq War Anniversary Finds GOP Regretful, Trying To Find A Path Forward

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON –- Back when the Iraq war was going to be a surgical operation and not an eight-year occupation, Barack Obama was a largely unknown state...

Iraq, Obama and the Left, 10 Years On

Andy Thayer | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
Andy Thayer

This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the second U.S.-Iraq War. It was a war that, for the baldness of the lies used to justify it, came to symbolize the arrogance of American assertion of power over the other peoples who inhabit the globe.

Where Are All the Moderate Christian Voices?

Carl Medearis | Posted 05.11.2013 | Religion
Carl Medearis

These folks don't carry much (or any) political clout.Ā  No one in D.C. is listening to them. They don't have the deep pockets or White House access like the older more conservative clan does.Ā  So no one hears their voices.

Joshua Hersh

Chuck Hagel And Obama Closely Align On Afghanistan Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 01.07.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama is reportedly set to nominate former Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam veteran and outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, as his secret...

Radley Balko

Arrest Of Catholic Anti-War Protester Highlights Emergence, Tension With Church’s Progressive Side

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 12.03.2012 | Politics

Anti-war activist Brian Terrell began serving a six-month sentence Friday at the federal prison camp in Yankton, South Dakota. Last April, Terrell and...

Scott Camil: Internationally Known Winter Soldier Finds Peace With War Buddies

Steve Karras | Posted 02.02.2013 | Politics
Steve Karras

In a sense, Camil has always been "under fire." He has repeatedly endured the painful rejection of former comrades and been called a traitor by ex-active duty marines.

Cindy Lee Sheehan - Too Early to Be Named as Patron Saint of Occupy?

Jerry Ashton | Posted 12.19.2012 | New York
Jerry Ashton

Cindy Lee Sheehan could be the prior decade's Occupier: she went where she wasn't welcome, claimed a patch of land that wasn't hers, was surrounded by unfriendly forces, but tenaciously continued to exercise her first amendment right.

John Lennon: The Last Great Anti-War Activist

John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.15.2012 | Entertainment
John W. Whitehead

Right up until his death on December 8, 1980, at the hands of an assassin, Lennon remained true to the anti-war activism that had shaped much of his life. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said for the nation he came to call home.

Big Beasts And Little Prophets: Activists Cooling Down The War Machine With Holy Water

Shane Claiborne | Posted 11.12.2012 | Religion
Shane Claiborne

What are we doing to interrupt injustice? What are we doing to get in the way of violence and death and war? What are we doing to transform weapons into farm tools?

Cole Stangler

Anti-War Progressive Loses Out In Close Primary

HuffingtonPost.com | Cole Stangler | Posted 06.29.2012 | Politics

After a vote-counting process that stretched a few weeks beyond the June 5 primary, anti-war Democrat Norman Solomon finally conceded the race for Cal...

I Will End the War in Afghanistan and Bring Our Troops Home Now

Gary Johnson | Posted 07.25.2012 | Politics
Gary Johnson

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.

When Reporters Were Allegedly Attacked in Chicago, the Rights of All of Us Were Violated

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.24.2012 | Media
Richard Schiffman

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.

A Memorial Day Remembrance of Peace Activist Soldiers

Doug Bradley | Posted 07.23.2012 | Politics
Doug Bradley

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.

Matt Sledge

Anti-War Progressive Running For Congress Promises To Be Obama's Foil

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.21.2012 | Politics

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...

Joshua Hersh

Cautioning Against War With Iran, Congressman Calls For Diplomacy

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.15.2012 | Politics

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...

You Ended the War in Iraq

Tom Matzzie | Posted 02.14.2012 | World
Tom Matzzie

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.

Peace On Earth, Good Will To All?

Rosemarie Pace | Posted 01.29.2012 | Religion
Rosemarie Pace

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.

Lessons to Learn From the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Hale Dwoskin | Posted 12.21.2011 | Healthy Living
Hale Dwoskin

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.

Opposing the Wars at Occupy Wall Street

Eamon Murphy | Posted 12.10.2011 | Politics
Eamon Murphy

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.

Tyler Kingkade

Protesters Travel From Far Away To Join The Occupy Movement In D.C

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.08.2011 | DC

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...

Decade 9.11: A Prayer

Kathleen Deignan | Posted 11.10.2011 | Religion
Kathleen Deignan

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.

Minneapolis Message to Obama Was Clear: Bring the War $$ Home

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.01.2011 | Politics
Coleen Rowley

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.

Anti-War Activists Ignored By The Media

Nieman Watchdog | Posted 09.24.2011 | Politics

The national news media almost totally ignore homefront protests of the Afghanistan war, killer drones, torture, and more, regardless of their newswor...

Jennifer Bendery

Progressive Democrats In Disarray Over Whether To Back War Operations

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.24.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In some of the most bizarre votes seen yet in this Congress, House lawmakers from both parties banded together Friday to rebuke Presiden...

Peacemaker, Hero, Father: Daniel Ellsberg

Robert Ellsberg | Posted 08.18.2011 | Religion
Robert Ellsberg

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.