I've written often here about my friend Cheryl Harris, whose son Ryan Maseth was electrocuted and died in Iraq. She finally testified before Democrats in Congress yesterday.
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Oil prices finished about where they began Wednesday after jumping more than $2 earlier on reports of lower U.S. oil stockpiles and a...
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
While for many of us, nuclear weapons conjure up images of burning flesh, moral appeals are lost on the Pentagon. Its only concern is winning wars.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan stud...
Trita Parsi | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Tehran is either putting on a nicer face to win time or it has recognized the dangers of an Israeli attack and is showing greater flexibility as a direct result of the Jewish state's muscle flexing.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
On June 23, Sean Webster's body was found in an isolated part of his base. The Naval Criminal Investigate Service is probing the death as a "probable" suicide.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
The military has finally, after nine months, announced the results of its probe into the death by gunshot of a gay soldier in Afghanistan.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
Wired | Noah Shachtman | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green
Environmental groups have been warning for years that global climate change could make already-tense parts of the world even worse, and even spark who...
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
For better or worse, we're constitutionally incapable of summoning up sufficient cynicism to imagine the moral depravity required to start another war.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Another young U.S. soldier, this one age 19, has apparently killed himself in Iraq, and at least two other reports of "noncombat" deaths in the past week may fall in the same category.
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Conditions that Iran cease its uranium enrichment, as well as America's overt talk of bombing, only paint the Islamic Republic into a corner from which it can hardly get out, given its structure.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
A horrible truth has emerged: It turns out that Spc. Kamisha Block was actually murdered, and the killer, another soldier, Staff Sgt. Brandon Norris, then turned the gun on himself.
Conn Hallinan | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite -- NATO is an alliance in trouble.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama showed again today that he is determined to get and keep the Iraq vet vote and the ballots of those who care about them.
Haim Watzman | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
We had barely slept for two nights and were caked with the mud stirred up by a late-winter downpour. Within a few minutes we threw our gear together and lugged it into the choppers that flew us to Tyre.
Omid Memarian | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
In this PSA, fifty Iranian-Americans express who they are and why they're for peace. If you know someone who has never met anyone of Iranian descent, share this message with them.
Paul Peete | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home
The only modern way to combat this powerful, entrenched, well-financed conservative cabal is to create public outrage. After sleeping through the bloodless coup the 2000 elections turned out to be, Americans have tuned into the battle between Hillary and Barack that kept us listening, talking and taking sides. Obama must re-ignite that excitement by engaging McCain in the most democratic of forums.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Jeffrey McKinney's family believes that if his chain of command had paid closer attention to the symptoms, his death might have been avoided.
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
Cheney's aide-de-nepotism -- daughter, Elizabeth -- has once again rallied to his cause of pursuing war with Iran.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
As many of us celebrate Father's Day today, feel free to spend at least a moment to ponder the countless children left fatherless by our war in Iraq.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
That an overwhelming majority of Americans want an imminent end to the war apparently doesn't faze McCain.
Trita Parsi | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
The key to tempering the Israeli-Iranian rivalry -- at least the Iranian side of it -- lies in playing Iran's ideological and strategic interests against each other.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
An issue I have been writing about for years has finally hit center stage -- the disturbing rate of PTSD among veterans, the surging suicide epidemic and new revelations about the high number of soldiers on meds.
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Those who belittle McClellan for being a day late and a dollar short are missing the point. However faint his whistle, that he blew it at all showed growth on the part of a man trained as a parrot.
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Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics