Tag: Iraq war
Sarah Browning: Poetry as Provocation
May 2013Camille Gage interviews the poet, activist, and director of Split This Rock.
Peter Van Buren: Mission Unaccomplished
March 2013Why the invasion of Iraq was the single worst foreign policy decision in American history.
Secrecy and Sexual Assault in the Military
November 2012After spurring an investigation of internal violence in the armed forces, the journalist explores the same themes through fiction.
Brandon Lingle: Queen’s Creek
August 2012Back from Iraq, a veteran meditates on the past, present, and future of American warfare, and the small creek in Virginia where they all flow together.
Drinking Baghdad
July 2012In Al-Najaf, I watched a man’s wound / flitter off his skin, knowing he’d died / two days prior
Full Metal Racket
May 2011The Rolling Stone reporter on his blockbuster articles, how the generals pushed Obama into a war he didn’t want to fight, and the Pentagon’s effort to tear down the wall between PR and propaganda.
America’s Century of Regime Change
March 2007Iraq was not the first time, just the first time we all watched it happen
No “Waiting for the World to Change”
March 2007Protest now—in a few years, you’ll be too much of a prick to care. In a few years, you’ll have your lawn and your job and whatever’s on TV tonight—everything wil seem much more important. Protest now while you still have a shred of values—the real thing to protect.
Meakin Armstrong: America’s War Fever
February 2007“I don’t fuck much with the past, but I fuck plenty with the future”—Patti Smith
Meakin Armstrong: “Marching” Against the War in DC and NYC
January 2007Then you march, which means that you promenade toward the capitol, then around its back, ending up where you’d started in the first place.
Meakin Armstrong: The War and the Word Games
January 2007Much of that Presidential power comes from proper use of words: “We have nothing to fear but ____ (finish the sentence).” “The buck stops ____” “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this ___.”
