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Iraq
“So Many People Died:” The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014
From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, one common thread through all US military endeavors is the backlash and suffering of civilians caught in the cross fires.
Will Americans Be Able to Watch Al Jazeera America?
A double-standard for objecting to bias in cable news media is coming to the fore since Jazeera bought Current.
Timothy Leary: Violence Is Killing With Machines at a Distance
Although many will dispute his exclusion of other forms of aggression as violence, few will argue that Timothy Leary's assertion is more valid than ever now: Violence is killing …
True Believer: Petraeus and the Mythology of Afghanistan
Petraeus apparently came to believe the myth he had artfully created.
A Year After US Troops Withdraw from Iraq, Fog of War Thickens
In its wake, the Iraq war has left us with more questions than answers.
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Until They All Come Home
This is a story about the people who have most recently endured what it means to serve in America's military, and what they are dealing with right now as …
How Petraeus Quietly Stoked the Fires of Sectarian War Without Getting Burned
Gen. David Petraeus led the US war strategy to a dependence on Shi'a militia, which inflamed sectarian war.
How the Myth Began – Petraeus in Mosul
Petraeus is a new type of military commander whose primary strength isn't strategy or combat command, but manipulation of media to maintain support for wars of choice.
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Reflecting on My Visits to Families in Exhausted Iraq
‘We are helpless and hopeless, but we are adapting,’ a doctor told a volunteer traveling in Baghdad this month.
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General Petraeus Seduced Us, Too
Exposure of the realities of Petraeus' corporate alliances might lay bare how we have been carried into war by Western corporate power.