1. John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, the Media and Obama
(Newsletter)

...q War has been long forgotten and treated as a “mission abolished” after the new president pledged to withdraw U.S. forces and the American media, public, and Congress turned their attention back to a...

2. Ecocide, Terracide & Climate Genocide
(Newsletter)

... By MWC NEWS    Tuesday, 16 December 2008 General David Petraeus, the former military commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and author of the military’s most recent counterinsurgency manual, le...

3. Tractatus Logico Palestinicus
(Newsletter)

...nd the Iraqi government that provides for the continued U.S. occupation of Iraq and the ultimate withdrawal of U.S. forces. The protestors were calling for the Iraqi parliament to reject the proposed ...

4. Beware an Attack on Iran
(Newsletter)

...nbsp; The signs seem to point in that direction.  On March 11, Navy Adm. William Fallon, commander of the U.S. forces in the Middle East, retired early because of differences with Washington on I...

5. A Conservative\'s Garden of False Narratives
(Newsletter)

...former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee took Texas Congressman Ron Paul to task for calling for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Huckabee suggested that it was irrelevant whether the United State...

6. Why Most Counterinsurgency Wars Fail
(Opinions/op-ed)

... Sunni guerrilla movement and bribe the Awakening Councils to battle the group. The problem in Iraq is that as U.S. forces draw down, the now reduced guerrilla war could turn into a civil war among th...

7. Fraudulent Afghan Election Raises Odds Against U.S. 'Success'
(Opinions/op-ed)

...on is booming anew; crime and violence are once again a daily fact of life in the cities neighborhoods...(and) U.S. forces seize Afghans and take them away without explanation and keep them incommunic...

8. Fire McChrystal and Get Out of Afghanistan
(Opinions/Politic)

... violence increased. Prior ethnic cleansing and paying off Sunni guerillas to redirect their belligerence from U.S. forces to al-Qaeda are probably more likely reasons for the lower violence, which is...

9. Empathy for ‘Adversaries’
(Opinions/Politic)

...ed this accusation was lost in the drive to do more of exactly what bin Laden was mad about in the first place—U.S. forces invading and occupying Muslim soil, thus making things worse by aiding the re...

10. Obama Needs to Expand on His Good Instincts in Foreign Policy
(Opinions/Politic)

...team, is moving the ball down the field but needs to get it over the goal line more often. Obama has withdrawn U.S. forces from Iraqi cities and has pledged to end this Bush quagmire by the end of 201...