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Topic: Iraq

Veterans, military family members, and supporters occupy the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill calling upon the Trump administration to end the war on Iran on April 20, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for About Face: Veterans Against The War)

Veterans see the war’s silver lining

Russell Payne
A Thai cargo ship got caught in the crossfire in the Strait of Hormuz. Some are making it safely to the port, but others are feeling the tensions first-hand in the region. (AFP PHOTO / ROYAL THAI NAVY / Getty Images)

Trump rebukes media amid Iran Strikes

CK Smith
USAF KC-135R trailing its aerial refuelling boom. (Loop Images / Getty Images)

US military refueling plane crashes

Jelinda Montes
President Donald Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's latest Iran plan will backfire

Heather Digby Parton
US President Donald Trump fields a question from a reporter during a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump’s Iran bravado echoes Bush

Heather Digby Parton
Writer and commentator George Will attending a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, Sept. 21, 2023. (Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)

George Will: Last lonely never-Trumper

Mike Lofgren
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Venezuela playbook is a retread

Betty Medsger - The Conversation
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed by executive producer Chris Whipple for 'The Presidents' Gatekeepers' project about White House Chiefs of Staff. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

Dick Cheney paved the way for Trump

Heather Digby Parton
Displaced Palestinian children push into a queue to get a portion of cooked food from a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, ahead of the iftar fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 9, 2025. (OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

War is also an assault on public health

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
George W. Bush and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s fake invasion: An old GOP trick

Amanda Marcotte
Police patrol outside Fiserv Forum as the Republican National Convention begins on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

RNC: Anti-party in a ghost town

Andrew O'Hehir
A view of destruction after Israeli forces' withdrawal from Khan Yunis, Gaza on April 08, 2024. | Chile's Presidential Palace burns at the height of bombardment during the coup d'etat by the nation's armed forces, 1973 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Israel's kill lists have a long history

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Yemeni men walk past a mural depicting a US drone and reading " Why did you kill my family" on December 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

There was another Oct. 7 — 23 years ago

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
U.S. Army Specialist stands next to a burning oil well at the Rumayla oil fields March 27, 2003 in Rumayla, Iraq. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

How U.S. war crimes led us here

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt kneels in front of the memorial in the former Jewish ghetto. | Mahatma Gandhi on his famous March to the Sea to make salt, in defiance of the British salt monopoly. | Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

We need an extraordinary act of peace

Keith A. Petty
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump exit the Oval Office as they arrive to participate in a tree planting ceremony in recognition of Earth Day and Arbor Day on the South Lawn of the White House on April 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Bikinigate: Trump fumes over leaked tape

Gabriella Ferrigine
A member of the Ukrainian special forces is seen in silhouette as he stands while a gas station burns after Russian attacks in the city of Kharkiv on March 30, 2022, during Russia's invasion launched on Ukraine. (FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

The war pimps are still lying to us

Chris Hedges
Caskets for the dead are carried towards the gravesite as relatives and friends attend a mass funeral for members of a family that is said to have been killed in a U.S. drone airstrike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES/Getty Images)

America's systemic racism is global

Norman Solomon
Former U.S. President George W Bush (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

U.S. continues quest to hide torture

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
A U.S. Army soldier stands by Iraqi's Oil Ministry after it was hit by missiles, November 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Our Iraq legacy: 20 years of hypocrisy

Norman Solomon
A member of the Ukrainian special forces is seen in silhouette as he stands while a gas station burns after Russian attacks in the city of Kharkiv on March 30, 2022, during Russia's invasion launched on Ukraine. (FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why I write about war

Chris Hedges - TomDispatch.com
A destroyed tank likely belonging to Russia / pro-Russian forces lies amidst rubble in the north of the ruined city. The battle between Russian / Pro Russian forces and the defencing Ukrainian forces lead by Azov battalion continues in the port city of Mariupol. (Maximilian Clarke/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

What really caused the war in Ukraine?

Jane Shevtsov
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

Increase gas and oil? Absolutely not

Alan Weisman
A picture taken on July 9, 2017, shows smoke billowing following an airstrike by US-led international coalition forces targeting Islamic State (IS) group in Mosul. Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul from jihadists, a US general said Saturday, as celebrations broke out among police forces in the city. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's war crimes — and ours

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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