News | Politics & Elections CNN Moderators Fixate on Cost of Medicare for All, Ignore Price of Endless War The debate moderators should have redirected their scrutiny toward the costs of a potential war with Iran. By Eoin Higgins , CommonDreams January 15, 2020 Truthout
Interview | War & Peace Bush Official: I Watched the March to War in 2003 and It’s Happening Again Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army colonel, discusses more. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! January 6, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | War & Peace An Eyewitness to the Horrors of the US “Forever Wars” Speaks Out A co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence reflects on her experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. By Kathy Kelly , NationalCatholicReporter January 4, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | War & Peace What the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall Means 30 Years Later Across the globe, democracy is in retreat, driven by pressures from both populist nationalism and predatory capitalism. By James Carroll , TomDispatch October 28, 2019 Truthout
Op-Ed | War & Peace A Veteran in a World of Never-Ending Wars and Improvised Explosive Devices By calling off Taliban peace talks, Trump ensured that more troopers like me will needlessly die in a war without end. By Danny Sjursen , TomDispatch September 23, 2019 Truthout
Op-Ed | War & Peace It’s Been 18 Years Since 9/11. It’s Time to End the Wars. “Never Forget” is a gruesome farce, an enforced memory intended to fuel a never-ending desire for war. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout September 11, 2019 Truthout
News Analysis | Politics & Elections The 2020 Candidates Are Ignoring Guantánamo Perpetual war, Guantánamo and indefinite detention have become permanent features of U.S. foreign policy. By Adam Hudson , Truthout July 30, 2019 Truthout
News Analysis | War & Peace Lessons From the Natural World on Washington’s Unnatural Wars Americans have to recognize the parasitic nature of the national security state. By William J. Astore , TomDispatch July 9, 2019 Truthout
Op-Ed | War & Peace The Town Where Presidents Should Be Forced to Confront “Forever Wars” Where better to commemorate conflicts that Americans would like to ignore than in a hollowing-out Midwestern town? By Andrew J. Bacevich , TomDispatch May 23, 2019 Truthout
Op-Ed | War & Peace I’m Leaving the US Army, But the Forever Wars Will Go On Without Me I was the obsequious grunt at the pointy end of the spear fashioned by a warlike government. But no longer. By Danny Sjursen , TomDispatch April 2, 2019 Truthout