We Should Buy More White Flags
Today, the business of America is war.
The Curse of Cluster Bombs
U.S. cluster bombs continue to kill and maim impoverished Laotians, but the war criminals responsible have never been brought to book.
Pentagon Still Denies Agent Orange Stored on Okinawa During the Vietnam War
The Pentagon’s increasingly unconvincing denials that Agent Orange was stored on Okinawa prevents veterans from receiving the medical care that they desperately need.
MLK: A Call to Conscience
Phyllis Bennis on Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech.
War Fatigue and the Un-Critical Critics of War
Despite Washington’s newfound war fatigue, there are no signs that U.S. militarism is on the wane.
How the Institute for Policy Studies Helped Release the Pentagon Papers
IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin and others provided crucial aid to whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Blowing the Whistle
IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin helped whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers.
Obits for “Fabled Hero” of Vietnam War, Vang Pao, Omit CIA Drug Connection
Vang Pao’s passing reminds us how U.S. enables drug dealing as means to foreign-policy ends.
Of Horns and Beaks and the Afghanistan War
The U.S. military and NATO are finding it harder and harder to sell a particular assault as the key to victory.
One Nation Working Together for Jobs, Not War
Last weekend, on 10-2-10, the One Nation Working Together coalition brought more than 100,000 people out into the streets demanding the kind of real political change that would will lead to “justice at home and peace abroad.”
Wrestling with the Khmer Rouge Legacy
The United States bombed Cambodia and supported the Khmer Rouge after its fall from power. Why are Washington and the mainstream media ignoring this complicity?
Beating Swords Into Ploughshares
Agribusiness, an industry that found a way to profit during the Vietnam War, is emerging as a beneficiary of U.S. post-conflict policies in the Middle East as well.
We’ve Got to Get out of There
Strategies that depend on invading and pacifying Afghanistan–thereby bending it to the invader’s will–never work
Hummer Rules
We need leadership that can reveal the invisible hand of government and remind the public that government is the instrument by which we the people regulate ourselves.
Remember Vietistan?
With the latest Pentagon resignation, the Vietnam analogy continues to haunt the United States in Afghanistan.