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Reports: Obama on the Brink

Reports: No Easy Out for Obama

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Plans to Back Away From Security Biz

Reports: Bush’s Semantic Withdrawal

Reports: Obama’s Audition

Ear to the Ground: Obama Commits to Afghanistan Escalation

Ear to the Ground: Obama Begins World Tour

Reports: Obama’s Disaster in the Making

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Keeps Bombing Weddings

Ear to the Ground: ‘Help Me’: Gitmo Video Shows Tearful Teen

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘The Central Front in the War on Terror Is Not Iraq’

A/V Booth: U.S. Generals in Afghanistan Ask for More Armored Vehicles

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Loses 9 to Taliban Strike

Ear to the Ground: Inquiry Finds U.S. Strike Killed Wedding Party

Reports: Disorderly or Not, America Should Withdraw

Arts and Culture: Pentagon Looking to Help Shape War Films

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Militants Suspected in Kabul Bombing

Ear to the Ground: Bombings Jolt South Asia

Reports: Surviving the Fourth of July

A/V Booth: American Vets’ Stories in Their Own Words

Reports: Terror Goes a Lot Further With Good Advertising

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Death Toll Outpaces Iraq

Reports: The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves

A/V Booth: Is This the Year of the Taliban?

Ear to the Ground: What War?

Ear to the Ground: Refugees on the Rise

Reports: Impatient Justice

A/V Booth: Over 850 Afghan Prisoners at Large After Kahdahar Raid

Ear to the Ground: By George W. Bush

Ear to the Ground: Taliban-Led Raid Frees 1,200 in Afghan Prison Break

Reports: John McCain’s Chilling Project for America

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s VP Curveball

Ear to the Ground: Al-Qaida Analysis: Election Year Edition

Ear to the Ground: Defense Auditors Can’t Keep Up

A/V Booth: Bush’s Final Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery

Reports: Torturing Iron Man

Reports: When It Costs Too Much to Support the Troops

Ear to the Ground: Warning Fails to Prevent Electrocution of U.S. Soldiers

Ear to the Ground: Pat and Mary Tillman Are Saluted in N.Y. Times

Reports: The U.S. War on Journalists

A/V Booth: Mary Tillman on ‘Today’: ‘Pat’s Death Was a Lie to the Country’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Soldier Accidentally Dials Mother During Battle

Reports: Us vs. Them

Ear to the Ground: A ‘Mini Surge’ in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Bush Passes the Buck

Reports: For the GOP, a Tough Sell

Ear to the Ground: Bomb Rips Through Afghan Mosque at Evening Prayer

Reports: Sinking Into the Quagmire

Ear to the Ground: Powell Salutes Obama, Worries About Wars

Ear to the Ground: Bush Backs Petraeus’ Pause Plan

Reports: Failing the Troops

Ear to the Ground: Bush to NATO: War Takes Time

Ear to the Ground: The Case of the Moldy Ammunition

Ear to the Ground: Sarkozy Cozies Up to Britain

Reports: Winter Soldier Marches Again

Reports: The Only Lesson We Ever Learn Is That We Never Learn

Reports: Bush’s Legacy of Failure

Ear to the Ground: Inside a CIA Black Site

Reports: Reagan Democrats

Ear to the Ground: Top Commander for Mideast Resigns

Reports: Dems Dropping the Ball on Iraq Debate

Reports: ‘Great Satan’ Gets Struck Out

Reports: A Royal Blunder

Ear to the Ground: Prince Harry on the Front Line

Reports: The Poppy Problem

Ear to the Ground: Sentenced to Die Over a Download

Reports: Homeland Insecurity

Reports: Aboard the Condoleezza Rice

Reports: American Veterans in Crisis

Ear to the Ground: National Guard Difficulty ‘Places the Nation at Risk’

Ear to the Ground: Army Suicide Rate Highest on Record

Ear to the Ground: Bush Bails on War Funding

Ear to the Ground: Former Congressman Charged With Funding Terrorist

Reports: The Pakistan Conundrum

Ear to the Ground: Kabul Hotel Bombing Kills 6

Ear to the Ground: For Veterans With PTSD, Location Is Everything

Ear to the Ground: House Approves War Funds

Ear to the Ground: Senate Doles Out $70 Billion More for the Wars

Reports: Surviving a CIA ‘Black Site’

Reports: Why We Resist

Reports: Not So Happy Holidays for Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Sweeps 20,000 Veterans Under the Rug

Reports: Cheering for Ron Paul

Reports: Bush Stands by His Dictator

Ear to the Ground: Take the Cost of the War and Double It

Ear to the Ground: Air Force Grounds F-15 Fleet

Arts and Culture: Purpose and Predictability

Arts and Culture: Todd Gitlin on ‘The Terror Dream’

Ear to the Ground: $2.4 Trillion to Keep the Wars Going

Reports: Electoral Dysfunction

Ear to the Ground: Bush Reportedly Pushed for Harsh Interrogations

Reports: Sweeping Our Inhumanity Under the Rug

Ear to the Ground: Dozens Dead in Pakistan Border Battle

Ear to the Ground: Slain Soldier’s Family Wants Answers From Pentagon

Reports: Limbaugh’s ‘Phony Soldiers’ Slur

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan ‘Losing War’ With Insurgents

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Founder Takes a Beating in Congress

Ear to the Ground: Good News and Bad News from Adm. Mullen

Reports: Biden One-Ups Bush

Ear to the Ground: Team Bush Wants $50 Billion More for ’08 Military Budget

Ear to the Ground: Whistleblowers Expose State Department Bushie

Reports: Letting Our Veterans Down

Ear to the Ground: Rumsfeld Disowns the War

Reports: Fighting Someone Else’s War

Ear to the Ground: Got Debt?  Head to Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Drug Trade Blooms in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Army Suicide Rate at Quarter-Century High

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan May Crack Down on Freedoms

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Fires Back

Ear to the Ground: Bush and Karzai Nix Taliban’s Hostages Deal

Ear to the Ground: Civilians Caught in Afghan Airstrike

Reports: Expecting the Worst in Lebanon

Ear to the Ground: Rumsfeld Denies Responsibility at Tillman Hearing

Ear to the Ground: Pat Tillman Murdered?

Ear to the Ground: Army to Discipline 7 in Tillman Case, ABC Reports

Ear to the Ground: Gonzales Among Defendants in Iraq Vets’ PTSD Suit

Ear to the Ground: Civil War in Pakistan?

Reports: Carnage From the Air

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Civilian Death Crisis

Ear to the Ground: NATO to Karzai:  Point Taken

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Slams Western Allies’ Battle Tactics

Ear to the Ground: Afghan President Plays Down Taliban Threat

A/V Booth: Guantanamo on (Iranian) TV

Ear to the Ground: Kandahar District Falls Briefly to Taliban

Ear to the Ground: Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

Reports: The Pentagon vs. Peak Oil

Ear to the Ground: U.S. in Shootout With Afghan Police

Ear to the Ground: Veterans Face High Suicide Risk

Ear to the Ground: War Czar Admits Doubts About ‘Surge’

Reports: Improvisational Justice

Ear to the Ground: 7 Killed as Copter Is Downed in ‘Forgotten War’

Ear to the Ground: Joint Chiefs Chairman Has Trouble Counting

Reports: Tillman and Kovic on War and Sacrifice

Ear to the Ground: Meet the War Czar

Reports: What Price Slaughter?

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week:  Mary Tillman

Ear to the Ground: Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills 21 Civilians

Ear to the Ground: Furor in Afghanistan Over Civilian Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Cleared Detainees Stuck in Gitmo Limbo

Reports: Shutting Down Guantanamo

Truthdig Podcast: Shutting Down Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: The Politics of Mourning

Ear to the Ground: Congress to Investigate Tillman Cover-Up

Ear to the Ground: Why I Declined to Serve

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Civilian Death Toll Climbs

Ear to the Ground: French Intelligence Warned of Airline Terror Plot in 2001

Ear to the Ground: Six NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Leaked Tillman Memo Warns of Bush Embarrassment

Reports: Pentagon Cowers Behind Wordplay

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Report on Tillman Fratricide Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Reports: Tillman Family: Briefing Was ‘Unsatisfactory’

Ear to the Ground: Military Minces Words in Tillman Report

Ear to the Ground: Nine Officers Blamed in Tillman Cover-Up

Ear to the Ground: Deadly Conflict in Pakistan

Reports: The Forgotten War

Ear to the Ground: Dems Back Down on Iran

Ear to the Ground: China to U.S.: You Should Talk

A/V Booth: Support the Truth

Ear to the Ground: Civilian Casualties Claimed in Afghanistan Bombing

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Highway Battle Kills 16 Civilians

Ear to the Ground: Australian Held at Gitmo Will Be Tried in U.S. Court

Reports: Last Throes of Cheney’s Credibility

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Dodges Bomb Attack

Cartoons: Powell: The Price of Distraction

Ear to the Ground: Watada Court-Martial Declared a Mistrial

Ear to the Ground: President Wants More Money for the War

Ear to the Ground: Nancy Pelosi Returns from ‘Chaotic’ Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Administration Lengthens Tours of Duty in Afghanistan

Reports: Reforming Pakistan’s ‘Dens of Terror’

Ear to the Ground: Military Spending Boggles the Mind

Ear to the Ground: The Man Who Helped Bin Laden Escape

Ear to the Ground: Military Sacrifices Soldiers for Escalation

Reports: Marie Cocco: An Unhappy Anniversary for Guantanamo

Reports: E.J. Dionne Jr.: Bush’s Bruised Ego

Ear to the Ground: Bush Pushing Out U.S. Generals in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Iran’s Afghan Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Military Wants Even More Money

Ear to the Ground: Truthdig’s One Year Anniversary

Reports: Women in Afghanistan

A/V Booth: Under the Shroud: Women and the Taliban

Digs: Afghan Autopsy

Reports: Molly Ivins: Campaign ‘06—Goodbye and Good Riddance

Cartoons: Powell - Sheriff Rummy

A/V Booth: The Long and Winding Road

Reports: After Pat’s Birthday

A/V Booth: Interview With the Taliban

Reports: Marie Cocco: The Death of Safia Ama Jan

Ear to the Ground: The Forgotten War

Ear to the Ground: Sen. Frist: Bring Taliban Into Gov’t

Reports: Robert Scheer: A War on Intelligence

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Murder and Torture in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Grim New Milestones

Reports: Gore Vidal: Reflections on 9/11

Ear to the Ground: First Reaction to Bush’s Speech

Digs: Robert Scheer: Gaping Holes in the 9/11 Narrative

Reports: Robert Scheer— Afghanistan: High on Opium, Not Democracy

Ear to the Ground: More Than 200 Taliban Fighters Die in Afghan Clash

A/V Booth: Bush Talks Nonsense With Brian Williams

Ear to the Ground: Faced With Reality, Coulter Walks

Ear to the Ground: Military Prepping New ‘Pentagon Papers’

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