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The Terror Con

The FBI May Have Finally Found Jimmy Hoffa

Say Hello to the 'Super Rich'

The Making of a Global Security State

This Will Not End Well

REPORTS

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Ex-Employees Say
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

The Making of a Global Security State
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

Climate Change Puts Lake Life at Risk
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

The Terror Con
By Robert Scheer

Ear to the ground

U.S. and Taliban Announce Direct Negotiations

Reporter Who Brought Down the ‘Runaway General’ Dead at 33

Nate Silver vs. Politico: It’s on Again

IRS Conspiracy Theory Debunked, Rand Paul Answers Cheney Criticism, and More

Bill Ayers: Try Obama, Bush for War Crimes

Experts Don’t Buy Claim Syria Used Chemical Weapons

A/V Booth

GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

Did Progress Leave Christians Behind?

Watch: Rick Perry Blunders Jab at Obama’s Benghazi Reaction

Arts & Culture

Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

Digs

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

The Pornography of Power: Why Defense Spending Must Be Cut

By Robert Scheer
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The Balloonist

By MacDonald Harris and Philip Pullman
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Tag: B-2

AP / Jerome Delay

Critics Question U.S. Role in Libya as Air Attacks Continue

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wasn’t thrilled with the U.N. Security Council’s go-ahead to let U.S. and European forces fire on Moammar Gadhafi’s troops in Libya, and he said so Monday. He wasn’t alone in his criticism of what began as ...

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AP photo / Mark Farmer

Wasteful Weapons and the Politicians Who Love Them

By Robert Scheer —

Remember Curtis LeMay, the Air Force general played to chilling effect by Sterling Hayden in the 1964 movie “Dr. Strangelove”? If you’re too young for that reference, you probably don’t recall when the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) dominated our military posture toward our Soviet enemy.