Iraq

Unbelievably, the US is detaining and interrogating Iraqi children as young as 10, according to Human Rights Watch. Reuters reports: Human Rights Watch said U.S. military authorities were holding [...]

Three Iraqi bloggers sharing their perspectives, hopes and fears. 1) From Alive in Baghdad, a video featuring interviews with Iraqis returning after facing hardship in Syria. Video: Refugees [...]

Earlier this week the government’s top psychiatric researcher said that the suicide epidemic among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is due to inadequate mental health care, and may [...]

Earlier this week, the House had planned to hold a vote on the supplemental on Thursday.  They were looking at three amendments: one that allocates $162 billion to the wars in Iraq and [...]

Imagine that your country has been invaded by a foreign power.  Hundreds of thousands of your fellow citizens have died, 4 million are displaced, and you no longer have access to basic [...]

Want to get involved in the peace movement? Rebecca and I need several interns over the summer to help end the war in Iraq and stop new nuclear weapons. Four years ago, I was frustrated by the [...]

For the most part, I consider myself lucky this election season that I don’t have cable, or even an antenna on my TV for that matter.  It was a bit of a shock watching TV on a JetBlue plane [...]

By now, it’s old news that the Pentagon used its influence to get military experts to parrot its talking points on the major news networks, as the New York Times reported Sunday.  I wish I [...]

As Sadr City other Iraqi neighborhoods are rocked by airstrikes and sniper fire, President Bush announced he’ll end his presidency with an troop presence just as large as it’s been for most of [...]

Day one of the Petraeus and Crocker hearings before the Senate brought few surprises from the two star witnesses.  General Petraeus indicated that the American people shouldn’t hold their [...]