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Ear to the Ground: China Wary of Obama’s New Military Plan

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Keep Detention Clauses in Military Bill

Ear to the Ground: 10 Warnings for Arab Democracies

Ear to the Ground: Report: Drunk Drivers Hit the Road With Nukes in Tow

Reports: Wars Went MIA From Midterm Debates

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Survey: Dropping ‘DADT’ Wouldn’t Cause Wartime Strife

Ear to the Ground: U.K. to Slash Defense Spending

Ear to the Ground: Pressure Is On to Tighten the Pentagon’s Waist

Ear to the Ground: Obama Rewrites America’s Nat’l Security Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Obama Outlines National Security Doctrine

Ear to the Ground: Iran Rattles Its Missiles

Ear to the Ground: Tweeting War

Ear to the Ground: Digging In in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: ‘Star Wars’ Technology Sees First Hit

Ear to the Ground: British Arms Maker Pays Up

Ear to the Ground: Romania to Host U.S. Missile Shield

Ear to the Ground: Blair: ‘I’d Do It Again’

Ear to the Ground: More Money for War, Through the Back Door

Ear to the Ground: Iran’s Sacred Defense Week

Ear to the Ground: Russia to Strengthen Presence In Abkhazia

Ear to the Ground: Russia: No Rebuilding of Georgia’s Military

Ear to the Ground: Hearts and Minds Redux

Ear to the Ground: Defense Secretary Trims Fat Around the Edges

Reports: Daring to Utter the T Word

Reports: Obama’s Fight Against the Politics of Evasion

Reports: The Point of Pointing Fingers

Ear to the Ground: Congress for Sale

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Ear to the Ground: Gates Changes Afghanistan Tune

Ear to the Ground: An Insanity Plea for Madoff?

Arts and Culture: James Blight on McGeorge Bundy

Ear to the Ground: Torture Report Points the Finger at Rumsfeld

Ear to the Ground: For Pentagon, More Wal-Mart, Less Gucci

Reports: Obama Embraces the Military

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

Reports: Will Obama Stay the Course?

Reports: Chevron in the White House

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Reports: Obama the Realist

Ear to the Ground: Gates to Keep the Reins of War

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Ear to the Ground: What’s Blackwater Doing in Alaska?

Ear to the Ground: Military Spending ‘Not Sustainable’

Reports: Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Ear to the Ground: Israel PM: ‘The Time Has Come to Say These Things’

Ear to the Ground: $40 Billion Tanker Contract Grounded

Ear to the Ground: Congress’ Second Helping

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

A/V Booth: The Pornography of Power

Ear to the Ground: Kerry: U.S., Iran Have Plenty to Talk About

A/V Booth: Douglas Feith Defends Bush on ‘Daily Show’

Ear to the Ground: Top Al-Qaida Operative Killed in Somalia

Reports: A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida?s Navy

Reports: Reagan Democrats

Ear to the Ground: The Nation: Gitmo Trials Are Reported Rigged

Ear to the Ground: ‘From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld’

Reports: Cashing In on Terror

Ear to the Ground: Missile Defense Test a Direct Hit

Reports: War Costs Spiral Out of Control

Ear to the Ground: UK Plans Troop Reduction

Reports: Biden One-Ups Bush

Truthdig Podcast: Inside the Military-Industrial Complex

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

Arts and Culture: Chris Hedges on Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

Reports: Checkbook Imperialism:  The Blackwater Fiasco

Reports: Letting Our Veterans Down

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Bomber Takes Nukes on Accidental Trip

Reports: Hillary Pushes the Button

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

Ear to the Ground: Halliburton Profits Spike on Spinoff of Subsidiary

Ear to the Ground: Arms Race Déjà Vu?

Ear to the Ground: Defense Contractor Jeopardized U.S. Soldiers

Ear to the Ground: Satellite Spy Agency Gets Bilked

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Caught in Contract Shuffle

Ear to the Ground: Military Wants Even More Money

Ear to the Ground: The Military’s Iraq Gamble

Ear to the Ground: Gates Confirmed by Senate

Ear to the Ground: Gates Says U.S. Isn’t Winning War

Reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinch: No More Money for War on Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Rumsfeld Memo Calls for ‘Major Adjustment’

A/V Booth: Retired Officers Blast Rumsfeld on Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Olbermann Puts Rumsfeld to Shame

Ear to the Ground: Here We Go Again

Ear to the Ground: Lamont Heads New GOP Bogeymen Lineup

Ear to the Ground: Rice Warns N. Korea Against Missile Test

Ear to the Ground: Former Intel Officer: U.S. ‘Trying to Create an Iraq That American Voters Will Ignore’

Ear to the Ground: McCain Critical of Rumsfeld’s Handling of War

Ear to the Ground: McClellan Still Ducking Queries on Weapons Trailers

Ear to the Ground: Investigators Smuggle Dirty Bomb Materials Into U.S.

Ear to the Ground: The Word at War

Ear to the Ground: House Votes ‘No’ on Ports—‘Yes’ Is Likely on Star Wars

A/V Booth: Condi Rice Heckled by Antiwar Protester

Ear to the Ground: Iraq War Costing $5.9 Billion per Month

Ear to the Ground: Libby’s Defense: The Dog Ate My Memory

Ear to the Ground: Specter Denies Funneling Money for Lobbyist

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Says He Has Power to Declassify Info

Ear to the Ground: Brownie Blasts Bush Administration Response to Katrina Disaster

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Soldier Gets No Jail Time for Killing Iraqi General

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