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War Objections a Growing Issue Ann Wright interviewed about Robin Long Aug 25, 2008

Iraq war resister sentenced to 15 months Aug 23, 2008

Documents Reveal PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intel Findings Aug 22, 2008

PFC Robin Long Sentenced For Desertion Aug 22, 2008

Robin Long, War Resister Deported from Canada, Faces Trial This Week See also "Why I Ran," an interview with Robin Long posted below (May 10, 2006) Aug 21, 2008

Sibel Edmonds Case: FBI files "formal complaint" with Sunday Times Aug 18, 2008

Deserter may fare worse because of flight Aug 17, 2008

Facing Years in US Prison, Iraq War Resister Jeremy Hinzman Ordered Deported from Canada Aug 15, 2008

Arar's U.S. lawsuit resurrected Aug 15, 2008

Amy Goodman interviewing Ron Suskind How the Bush Admin Deliberately Faked an Iraq-al-Qaeda Connection Aug 13, 2008

U.S. army deserter ordered deported Aug 13, 2008

Pakistani accused of U.S. troop attack gets doctor Aug 11, 2008

Iraq Demands "Clear Timeline" for US Withdrawal Aug 10, 2008

Anthrax Case Had Costs for Suspects Aug 9, 2008

Salim Hamdan's Sentence Signals the End of Guantanamo Aug 8, 2008

Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery Aug 8, 2008

F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters' Phone Records Aug 8, 2008

Iraq War resister Robin Long jailed, facing three years Aug 7, 2008

White House 'buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs' Aug 6, 2008

Ron Suskind The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened? Aug 6, 2008

Author claims White House knew Iraq had no WMD Aug 5, 2008

FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials Aug 2, 2008

Iraqi oil on the block Jul 30, 2008

Glenn Greenwald Interview with Daniel Ellsberg Jul 28, 2008

Detainee Challenges Guantanamo by Describing Life There Jul 16, 2008

Canada will deport U.S. army deserter Jul 15, 2008

Putting Her Foot Down and Getting the Boot Jul 10, 2008

Iraq presses US on timeline for troop pullout Jul 8, 2008

Dane Who Blew Whistle on Iraq Lies Has Been Imprisoned See this post for action to free Frank Grevil -- who is profiled in DISSENT: Voices of Conscience Jul 7, 2008

Daniel Ellsberg, What Every American Needs to Know (and Do) About FISA Before Tuesday Jul 7, 2008

Canadian Court Rules Immigration and Refugee Board Reconsider Asylum Claim for US War Resister Jul 7, 2008

Seymour M. Hersh Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran Jul 7, 2008

Cameco Corp. says uranium deal kept quiet by U.S. military Jul 6, 2008

Debate Over Guantanamo's Fate Intensifies Jul 4, 2008

Former Driver for Bin Laden Seeks Delay in Military Trial Jul 4, 2008

U.S. deserter wins appeal in battle for refugee status Jul 4, 2008

Judge Rejects Bush's View on Wiretaps Jul 3, 2008

U.S. Agrees to Lift Immunity for Contractors in Iraq Jul 2, 2008

Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case Jul 1, 2008

Judges Cite Need for Reliable Evidence To Hold Detainees Jul 1, 2008

Abu Ghraib inmates sue contractors, claim torture Jun 30, 2008

James Carroll, A blind eye on soldiers' suicides Jun 30, 2008

Cheney's Fingerprints Jun 30, 2008

U.S. Is Said to Expand Covert Operations in Iran Jun 30, 2008

Occupation Plan for Iraq Faulted in Army History Jun 29, 2008

Army's History of Iraq After Hussein Faults Pentagon Jun 29, 2008

Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department Jun 25, 2008

Appeals Court Invalidates Detainee's 'Enemy' Status Jun 24, 2008

Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner Jun 23, 2008

Cheney linked to torture tactics Jun 19, 2008

General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes Jun 18, 2008

Major General (Ret.) Antonio Taguba, War Crimes Committed and Justice Denied Jun 18, 2008

U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees Jun 18, 2008

Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir Jun 17, 2008

Pentagon sought abusive interrogations Jun 17, 2008

Taliban take over villages near Kandahar Jun 16, 2008

America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men Jun 15, 2008

New Agreement Lets US Strike Any Country From Inside Iraq Jun 13, 2008

High Court ruling may delay war crimes trials Jun 12, 2008

Fresh blow for Brown over anti-terror plans Jun 12, 2008

Refuge for deserters? Jun 11, 2008

Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control Jun 5, 2008

More on Maher Arar Jun 5, 2008

Canada's House backs war resisters Jun 4, 2008

Ray McGovern, Australia Bolts Iraq Over Bush's Lies Jun 3, 2008

Jesselyn Radack, Report on FBI interrogations omits the Lindh case of torture Jun 2, 2008

Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq May 28, 2008

GIs, vet resisters take lead in anti-war actions May 24, 2008

Iraq Spending Ignored Rules, Pentagon Says May 23, 2008

US War Resister Loses Bid To Stay in Canada May 22, 2008

Back To Iraq: An Oregon Soldier Fights the Killing May 22, 2008

Ex-Guantanamo Inmate Finds Distracted Audience at US Congress May 21, 2008

Lawyer: One-time '20th hijacker' suspect tried suicide May 20, 2008

About the 9/11 war crimes trial May 20, 2008

Report details military tactics FBI agents found abusive May 20, 2008

Fmr. Military Intelligence Sgt. Reveals US Listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as Target Prior to Killing of Two Journalists in 2003 May 13, 2008

Adviser Barred From Detainee Case Over Bias Concerns May 11, 2008

The Truth About Veteran Suicides May 9, 2008

Ricardo Sanchez: 'Wiser' in Hindsight on Iraq, Politics May 7, 2008

1 in 3 Military Women Experience Sexual Abuse May 7, 2008

General (Ret.) Ricardo Sanchez, How Much Did Rumsfeld Know? May 1, 2008

Vanity Fair Philippe Sands, The Green Light May 1, 2008

Guantanamo Detainee Boycotts Hearing, Sleeps Apr 30, 2008

Cheney lawyer claims Congress has no authority over vice-president Apr 29, 2008

Behind Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand Apr 20, 2008

Army Imprisons Outspoken War Resister Apr 20, 2008

Top Bush aides pushed for Guantanamo torture Apr 19, 2008

Chertoff's Legal Advice Led to First Case of Waterboarding Apr 19, 2008

Bill Would Boost U.S. Power to Prosecute War Fraud Apr 18, 2008

Pentagon Institute Calls Iraq War "a Major Debacle" with Outcome "in Doubt" Apr 17, 2008

Center for Constitutional Rights Supports National Lawyers Guild Call for Dismissal and Prosecution of John Yoo Apr 17, 2008

The New Yorker, Camp Justice Apr 14, 2008

Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. Apr 12, 2008

Bush Aware of Advisers' Interrogation Talks Apr 11, 2008

Telecom Whistleblower Discovers Circuit that Allows Access to All Systems on Wireless Carrier - Phone Calls, Text Messages, Emails and More Apr 10, 2008

National Public Radio, Ex-Navy Lawyer Explains Guantanamo Leak Apr 10, 2008

Cheney, Others OK'd Harsh Interrogations Apr 10, 2008

Memo Proves Detention Is Illegal, Attorneys Say Apr 9, 2008

Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation' Apr 9, 2008

Yoo's Memo Hints at Bush's Secrets Apr 6, 2008

The War's Expiration Date Apr 5, 2008

Intimidating the Press Apr 4, 2008

Memo Sheds New Light on Torture Issue Apr 3, 2008

As Guantanamo trials near, Pentagon limits what can be reported Apr 3, 2008

Bush Officials Oppose Media Shield Bill Apr 3, 2008

The Green Light: Attorney Philippe Sands Follows the Bush Administration Torture Trail Apr 3, 2008

Memo linked to warrantless surveillance Apr 2, 2008

General (Ret.) William Odom, The surge is prolonging instability, not creating the conditions for success Apr 2, 2008

Bush's Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA's Warrantless Wiretapping Program and How the White House Pressured the New York Times to Kill the Story Apr 1, 2008

Pentagon Releases 2003 Memo Approving Harsh Interrogation Tactics Apr 1, 2008

Restoring the Constitution: A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg Apr 1, 2008

Iranian who brokered Iraqi peace is on U.S. terrorist watch list Mar 31, 2008

A day in a Guantanamo detainee's life Mar 28, 2008

Shut Guantanamo, ex-diplomats say Mar 28, 2008

Tapes' Destruction Hovers Over Detainee Cases Mar 28, 2008

Navy Lawyer: Gitmo trials pegged to political campaign Mar 28, 2008

In New Book, Chilean Ambassador to the UN Details Bush Admin's Pre-War Efforts to Coerce Allies into Supporting Iraq Invasion Mar 27, 2008

5 Ex-Chief Diplomats: Close Guantanamo Mar 27, 2008

Redwoods Readers Magazine, Portraits of Courage, Paintings by Robert Shetterly (see cover, and article on p. 10) Mar 26, 2008

The Man Who Pushed America to War - The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi Mar 26, 2008

Guantanamo Argued in Canada's High Court Mar 26, 2008

A Question of Numbers Mar 25, 2008

Helen Thomas, Telling Bush the truth is costly Mar 24, 2008

U.S. Pushed Allies on Iraq, Diplomat Writes: Envoy to U.N. Recounts Threats of Retaliation in Run-Up to Invasion Mar 23, 2008

New York Times Magazine, War Dodgers Mar 23, 2008

In New York, a Turf War in the Battle Against Terrorism Mar 22, 2008

Pentagon will not send Adm. Fallon to Congress on Iraq Mar 21, 2008

Ann Wright, John Brown, and Brady Kiesling, Why We Said No: Three Diplomats' Duty Mar 20, 2008

Iraq Retrospective: Read The Quotes That Sent Us To War Mar 20, 2008

The woman who nearly stopped the war Mar 19, 2008

Reuters/Washington Post, Anti-Iraq war U.S. diplomats poorer but proud Mar 18, 2008

Iraq 5 Years In: An overview of major events in the conflict Mar 18, 2008

Beyond the Border of War: In Canada, Deserters Find an Uncertain Haven, And Aid From an Earlier Generation That Fled Mar 17, 2008

Winter Soldier: US Vets, Active-Duty Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan Testify About the Horrors of War Mar 17, 2008

Anthony Swofford, Vet in a Suit: Testimony from the Iraq Veterans Against the War Mar 17, 2008

Beyond the Border of War Mar 17, 2008

Scott Horton, The Gitmo Farce Mar 16, 2008

President weakens espionage oversight Mar 14, 2008

House Approves FISA Bill; Strips Telco Immunity Mar 14, 2008

Wiretap Whistleblower on PBS-Now Mar 14, 2008

Bush vetoes bill outlawing CIA waterboarding Mar 8, 2008

Admiral Fallon's "No Iran War" Line Angered White House Mar 8, 2008

US Officials Lean Toward Keeping Iraq Report Quiet Mar 7, 2008

Troop depression on rise in Afghanistan Mar 6, 2008

More FBI privacy violations confirmed Mar 6, 2008

Retired Military Generals Criticize President Bush for Preparing to Veto Anti-Torture Bill Mar 6, 2008

Soldiers and Democracy: Know Your Rights! Mar 5, 2008

Where to view Winter Soldier Mar 1, 2008

Winter Soldiers to Testify Against War Mar 1, 2008

Gerry Condon, Crunch Time For U.S. War Resisters In Canada Mar 1, 2008

Iraq war 'caused slowdown in the US' Feb 28, 2008

Nobel laureate estimates wars' cost at more than $3 trillion Feb 27, 2008

British watchdog orders gov't to release Iraq war documents Feb 26, 2008

White House backtracks on claims of lost intelligence Feb 24, 2008

White House Says Phone Wiretaps Back on "For Now" Feb 23, 2008

Ross Tuttle, Rigged Trials at Gitmo Feb 20, 2008

US Supreme Court Throws Out Wire-Tapping Case Feb 19, 2008

Revealed: the first draft of dossier that took Britain to war Feb 19, 2008

Britain Releases Secret File From Before Iraq War Feb 18, 2008

'Dodgy dossier' was 'wrong', its author says Feb 17, 2008

Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers Feb 13, 2008

Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning Feb 11, 2008

I Want My Pentagon Papers! Why won't the NY Times share that controversial new Iraq study with its readers? Feb 11, 2008

Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning Feb 11, 2008

Document Shows Army Blocked Help for Soldiers Feb 7, 2008

Sound The Alarm - Yell Fire (You Tube - Call to Action 3/19/08) Feb 5, 2008

Revealing Deliberate Deceptions: Truthout Interview With Daniel Ellsberg Feb 4, 2008

Iraq conflict has killed a million, says survey Jan 30, 2008

NPR, Document Shows Army Blocked Help for Soldiers Jan 29, 2008

Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe Jan 27, 2008

"I was trained to be desensitized" Campaign wants to keep Iraq war resisters in Canada Jan 27, 2008

Abu Ghraib Whistleblower Samuel Provance Speaks Out on Torture and Cover-Up at U.S. Military Jail Jan 25, 2008

935 Lies (and Counting): Study Documents Bush Admin's False Statements Preceding Iraq War Jan 24, 2008

Study: Bush Admin Made 935 False Statements About Iraq Threat In March To War Jan 23, 2008

Center for Public Integrity, Iraq: The War Card / Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War Jan 22, 2008

Daniel Ellsberg, Covering Up the Coverage - The American Media's Complicit Failure to Investigate and Report on the Sibel Edmonds Case Jan 21, 2008

FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft Jan 20, 2008

Ray McGovern, CIA, Iran & the Gulf of Tonkin Jan 12, 2008

For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets Jan 6, 2008

American Taliban Whistleblower Joins Tapegate Furor Dec 25, 2007

Challenging Cheney Dec 24, 2007

Salon's People of the Year: Sgts. Omar Mora and Yance Gray Dec 19, 2007

Agustin Aguayo: Army deserter wants to change recruitment Dec 18, 2007

Bush Tries to Sieze Control of Military Lawyers Dec 18, 2007

Senate Approves Whistleblower Protection Legislation Dec 18, 2007

Morris B. Davis, Why I quit as chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Dec 16, 2007

Significant win for US Iraq War resisters in Canada Dec 14, 2007

House of Commons, Canada, Report of the Committee of Citizenship & Immigration on Iraq War Resisters Dec 11, 2007

Bush loses ground with military families Dec 7, 2007

Why we need to learn the name Sibel Edmonds Dec 5, 2007

Daniel Ellsberg Talks About the Shadow Government and the Need to Let the Sunshine In Dec 4, 2007

Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star, Refugee rights vindicated by court ruling Surprise decision saying U.S. not a safe country for asylum seekers opens door to northbound claims Nov 30, 2007

Joe Schneider, Canadian Judge Invalidates Country's Refugee Treaty With U.S. Nov 29, 2007

Feds Cancel Amazon Customer ID Request Nov 28, 2007

Don Hazen, The End of America? Naomi Wolf Thinks It Could Happen Nov 21, 2007

Ex-Iraq Commander Says Bring Troops Home Nov 21, 2007

Daniel Ellsberg Says Sibel Edmonds Case 'Far More Explosive Than Pentagon Papers' Nov 19, 2007

Daniel Ellsberg Dire Warning: A Coup Has Occurred Nov 19, 2007

NPR, Nearly 5,000 Soldiers Deserted Army in 2007 Nov 19, 2007

Elizabeth de la Vega What Real DOJ Trial Attorneys Say About Torture Nov 18, 2007

CBS News Report: 15,000 or More U.S. Deaths in Iraq War? Nov 17, 2007

US Deserters Lose Bid for Canada Refugee Status Nov 16, 2007

Army Desertion Rate Soaring Number Of U.S. Army Deserters Up 80% Since Iraq War Started; Highest Rate Since 1980 Nov 16, 2007

Jim Hightower Video: Attacking our freedom to protest Nov 13, 2007

Justice Department Reopens Probe Into Warrantless Domestic Spying Nov 13, 2007

Bill Simpich, Big Win for Watada: A Study in Courage and Honor Nov 11, 2007

Spooks refuse to toe Cheney's line on Iran Nov 10, 2007

Sibel Edmonds Case: the untellable story of AIPAC Nov 10, 2007

Gareth Porter, Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE Nov 9, 2007

AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein to Senate: "they’re doing a huge, massive domestic dragnet on everybody in the United States" Nov 7, 2007

The war on whistle-blowers Nov 7, 2007

Climate of Fear, by George Arnold Arkansas Democrat-Gazett Nov 6, 2007

Naomi Wolf, A "Paper Coup," and Blackwater Eyes Midtown Manhattan Nov 4, 2007

House Judiciary Committee sends whistleblower e-mail addresses to Cheney Nov 1, 2007

Claim of Pressure for Closed Guantánamo Trials Oct 20, 2007

WWII Nazi interrogators denounce Bush's torture techniques Oct 6, 2007

Federal judge delays Watada trial: Lawyers call a 2nd court-martial double jeopardy Oct 5, 2007

Petraeus out of step with US top brass Sep 14, 2007

National Security Letter Provision in PATRIOT Act Struck Down iby Federal Court Sep 6, 2007

Gen Sir Mike Jackson's attack draws US ire Sep 2, 2007

Second British general slams U.S. policy in postwar Iraq Sep 2, 2007

Craig Murray, The Folly of A Short-Term Approach Sep 1, 2007

Comey Ally Jack Goldsmith to Testify Before Senate Committee Aug 28, 2007

NOW on PBS Soldiers Going AWOL Aug 24, 2007

War Resister Camilo Mejia Elected to Chair Iraq Veterans Against the War, Group Encourages U.S. Troops to Refuse to Fight Aug 23, 2007

Iraq War Resisters to Get Boost From Veterans Group Aug 20, 2007

7 Active-Duty Sergeants, NY Times Op-Ed, The War as We Saw It Aug 19, 2007

NPR, Army Lacks Accurate Count on Deserters Mar 19, 2007

Why I Ran, an interview with Robin Long May 10, 2006

NPR, Exploring the Reasons Behind Going AWOL Mar 22, 2006

New Yorker Outsourcing Torture Feb 14, 2005

John Brown The Purposes and Cross-purposes of American Public Diplomacy Aug 15, 2002