David Cortright

David Cortright is co-author, with George A. Lopez, of The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s (Lynne Rienner). He is completing a new book, Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence in Theory and Practice. Cortright is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a founder of the Win Without War coalition. His first book, Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War, is being reissued this fall by Haymarket Books.

Currently

  • Iraq: The Human Toll

    July 24, 2005

    The humanitarian crisis is further evidence of the abysmal failure of US policy.

2003

2001

  • A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions

    November 15, 2001

    Changing American policy in Iraq is an urgent priority, both for humanitarian reasons and as a means of addressing an intensely felt political grievance against the US.

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