War & Peace

2009

A Responsible Afghan Strategy

Lawrence J. Korb & Sean E. Duggan : Afghanistan

If the United States ever wishes to leave Afghanistan, it requires a sustained engagement using all elements of national power--military, economic and diplomatic.
Economically Fueled Upheaval

Michael T. Klare : World Economy

As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, the likeliness of violence increases.

The New Humanitarian Order

Mahmood Mamdani : Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing

Recent war crimes charges against the Sudanese president reveal the rights-based politics of the world's "new humanitarian order."
Class War (chart)

U.S. Economy

Who's losing and who's winning at home from the US occupation of Iraq?

VideoNation: The Cost of War

Katrina vanden Heuvel : Economics

Democratic candidates need to make the war as a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human, costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The New Face of Warfare

Fatin Abbas : Youth

Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.
The Semiwarriors

Andrew J. Bacevich : Non-Fiction

By creating an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, Presidents have expanded their powers and hidden their actions from the public eye.

Murtha's No Leftie: He's Right

Robert Scheer : House

As Democrats choose between a stalwart critic of the Iraq War and a proponent of Bush policies for Majority Leader, Fox News gets in the act, casting centrist Pennnsylvania Rep. John Murtha as a partisan extremist. Huh?
¡No Más! No More!

Patrick Mulvaney : Foreign Affairs

Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army's School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuates human rights atrocities.
Another 9/11? Never Mind...

Eric Alterman : Media Coverage of the War on Terrorism

The 9/11 Commission's startling follow-up report that savages the Bush Administration's inadequate efforts to protect the country from terrorism was met by the media with a collective yawn. And so we remain vulnerable, amazed and, if sensate, terrified.