Things are getting better in Iraq, right? Riverbend, an Iraqi blogger in Baghdad, comments on this today, March 19th: It's like Iraq is suffering from intellectual hemorrhaging. Professors and scientists are being assassinated right and left- decent intelligent people...
A tribute written by Starhawk for Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, two young volunteer activists working for freedom and justice with the International Solidarity Movement who were killed by Israeli soldiers. I am writing this as we approach the anniversary of two...
A few paragraphs in this March 12th entry by Riverbend, a woman blogger in Iraq, caught my eye. It is about four Iraqi men detained by the US military who were able to buy their freedom when their families coughed up $300 payments to the soldiers holding them. I...
Jo Wilding's commentary while traveling inside Iraq creates a brief but valuable glimpse of what is happening inside the country and how the war has affected the lives of Iraq's people. Here, the circus performers, traveling past minefields, watch the celebrations in...
They enlisted to defend our nation from attack. Now, they are encamped on the other side of the world as an occupation force with cloudy and confusing goals. Though they did sign on the dotted line voluntarily, with the coming of Bush and the neocons, like the...
It's not only soldiers who suffer from PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which used to be called "battle fatigue," but anyone who has ever experienced first-hand the terrors of warfare or tragedies of horrific proportion is just as susceptible. In her journal,...
I have been away from my computer for the past week and have not been able to keep up with all of the news and opinions already linked to here. If this is a repeat, please forgive. Written by Dan Baum for this week's New Yorker Magazine, its the story of a young man...
In addition to knowing that 548 soldiers have been killed, 9500+ wounded -- many missing arms, legs and eyes -- and almost 1000 having been treated for psychiatric problems, military personnel will have to worry about the residual effects of depleted uranium and other...
Hedy Epstein, 79, of St. Louis, Missouri is a Holocaust survivor, Holocaust educator and longtime civil rights and peace activist. Her story is featured in the Academy Award winning documentary, "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport." In 1939, I...
Jen Banbury makes a visit to the Green Zone, headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Hunkered down in their weird security zone, the Americans who run Iraq have almost no contact with the country or its people. Though I can see some of...
