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05 June 2012
Operation Enduring Freedom: A civilian’s view
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Ian Pounds
One thing true we can say about war is that truth is its greatest casualty.
I am a volunteer teacher. Four years ago I responded to a call from then candidate Barak Obama for a new kind of soldier to wage peace, one without a...
05 June 2012
Chris Hayes, heroes, and morons
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David Swanson
Chris Hayes was driving me crazy, because I was beginning to think I'd need to start watching television. Luckily I've been saved from that fate, it seems. Hayes' comments on MSNBC, for which he has now absurdly apologized, were the type...
02 June 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi leaves Burma after 24 years
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday (May 29), the first time since 1988 that she has been out of her country where she suffered more than 15 of house arrest before being elected to...
28 May 2012
The special loophole in hell for war lawyers
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David Swanson
The strict rule of law is an ideal and a fantasy. Conflicting and archaic words must be interpreted, and doing so is an art, not a science.

But there is an enormous chasm between honest attempts to approach the ideal of...
28 May 2012
No one hears the poor
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Kathy Kelly
Here in Kabul, Voices co-coordinator Buddy Bell and I are guests at the home of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APV), where we’ve gotten to know four young boys who are being tutored by the Volunteers in the afternoons, having “retired” from...
24 May 2012
The Pits of Hell
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Robert Koehler
This week's NATO summit on the future of the war in Afghanistan probably did not get to the matter of burn pits or abandoned latrines.

These are the details of hell. They are also our legacy, in Afghanistan, in Iraq......

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