Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 US Casualties a Year
Alexander Cockburn:The psychological wounds of war will be with us for years to come.
Alexander Cockburn:The psychological wounds of war will be with us for years to come.
John Nichols:His new documentary is breaking the taboo that says Americans cannot stomach the reality of the Iraq War.
Jeremy Scahill:An Iraqi translator is prosecuted and Blackwater has its contract renewed for another year, armed and dangerous in Baghdad.
Shane Bauer
America has built an elite and lethal counterterrorism force. But who's calling the shots?
Jonathan Schell : Torture
The war, as we learned from the photos of Abu Ghraib, produced torture. Before that happened, torture had produced war.
Jo Comerford : U.S. Economy
The $1 trillion we have spent on war since 9/11 has placed enormous stress on our recession-struck economy.
Jeremy Scahill : Halliburton
Former Halliburton subsidy KBR was paid $83 million in bonuses for work that electrocuted US soldiers, former employees testified today.
Tom Hayden : Afghanistan War
Obama's pick to be the top US commander in Afghanistan directed a screening center in Iraq in 2003 that held terror suspects in secret facilities to which the Red Cross did not have access.

Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Peace Activism
The government drops efforts to prosecute an officer who refused to fight in Iraq. But the Army continues its campaign against him.

Rick Reyes : Afghanistan War
I witnessed firsthand the ineffectiveness of US military strategy in Afghanistan. We need a clear mission, an exit strategy and a commitment to diplomacy.
GRIT TV
The Iraq war wasn't one of the US media's finer moments. But six years on, have they improved?

The Editors
Obama's exit plan leaves unresolved the role of private security contractors and the residual force of as many as 50,000 troops that will remain in place.

Tom Hayden : Peace Activism
The peace movement claims victory with Obama's promise to pull US troops from Iraq by 2011. But elsewhere in a volatile world, a long war looms.
GRIT TV
Patrick Cockburn, David Enders and Bassam Haddad discuss the recent elections in Iraq and the withdrawal of American troops.
John Tirman : Human Rights
The human cost of Bush's war: 1 million dead. 4.5 million displaced. 1 million to 2 million widows. 5 million orphans.
Mark Ames : Journalists & Journalism
After the way they goaded us into an epic military disaster, why do media warmongers still have jobs?
Juan Cole : US Foreign Policy
The removal of US troops must be prompt, complete and coupled with smart diplomacy.
Federal charges are filed against Blackwater guards accused of killing and maiming Iraqi civilians. But the company continues to operate in Iraq and its executives escape scrutiny.
Dissenting views on Iraq and Afghanistan will have to come not from the hawkish national security team, but from outside Washington, and from Obama himself.
Robert Dreyfuss : Barack Obama Administration
Will Obama make good on his promise to end the war in Iraq?
