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Ear to the Ground: State Department to Downsize Massive Baghdad Embassy

Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

Reports: Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline

A/V Booth: ‘Ex-Sniper’s’ Story Misses the Mark

Ear to the Ground: ‘Our Sky Is Our Sky, Not the USA’s Sky’

Reports: Mitch Daniels: Bombast From the Past

Reports: Is a Nuclear Iran Really to Be Feared?

Ear to the Ground: Marine Pleads Guilty in Haditha Massacre Case

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Reports: Surviving the Hell of War, and Then Some

Ear to the Ground: Accused Serial Killer Returned From Iraq ‘Totally Changed’

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Reports: Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment?

Reports: Karzai’s Bagram Demands Add Stress to U.S. Policy

Ear to the Ground: Iran Condemns American to Death in Spying Case

Cartoons: Pentagon Budget Cuts

Reports: 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

Reports: For Once, Let’s Just Leave Iraq Alone

Ear to the Ground: Obama Signals a Shift in U.S. Military Strategy

Reports: Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default

Reports: Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let GOP Candidates Answer

Reports: Ron Paul’s Popularity a Sign of a War-Weary America

Cartoons: Nouri al-Maliki

Reports: Could Ron Paul Be the Next Ralph Nader?

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Reports: Fewer and Fewer Reasons for the West to Fixate on the Mideast

Cartoons: Iraq Wound

Reports: On to the Next ‘Bubble Fantasy’

Reports: Bradley Manning and the Fog of War

Reports: History Tells Us Not to Dismiss a Democratic Challenge to Obama

Cartoons: Rugs

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: The Costs of the Iraq War

Reports: Christopher Hitchens: Reason in Revolt

Ear to the Ground: Rest in Peace, Comrade

Ear to the Ground: The Iraq War Is Officially Over

Cartoons: Speech at Fort Bragg

Cartoons: Welcome Home

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Ear to the Ground: Obama, Maliki Make It Official

Reports: Obama Abroad: Democratic Realism

Reports: Where Were You When They Crucified My Lord?

Reports: China Profits From U.S.-Pakistan Shipwreck

Reports: Thought Crime in Washington

Ear to the Ground: How China Has Benefited From America’s Hostility to Iran

Reports: Why Does Obama Suddenly Want a War With China?

A/V Booth: Another Vet Struck Down by Police in Oakland

Reports: How Libya Plays Into NATO’s Identity Crisis

Cartoons: Red Menace

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Scott Olsen

Truthdig Podcast: Manarchy!

A/V Booth: Manarchy!

Reports: Call of Duty: Veterans Join the 99 Percent

Reports: Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East

Cartoons: Mission ... Accomplished

Reports: The Worst Generation

Reports: The Arab Spring Gets Messy, and Even Messier for the U.S.

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Goes Into Emergency Triage Mode

Ear to the Ground: Interactive Map: American Casualties in Iraq by State

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: End of an Era in Iraq and Libya

A/V Booth: President Obama: ‘America’s War in Iraq Will Be Over’ by Year-End

Reports: Turkish Kurds Surrounded by War and Promises

Ear to the Ground: Withdrawal Means Withdrawal

Reports: If a Republican Were President

A/V Booth: What a 6-Year-Old Iraqi Girl Would Ask the American Who Shot Her in the Head

Reports: Freedom Isn’t Free at the State Department

Ear to the Ground: From Our Arsenal to Yours

Ear to the Ground: Iran Frees 2 American Hikers

Reports: No End in Sight for a Family’s Agonizing Guessing Game

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Reports: The Fight-Back Plan

Reports: How to Save the United States and Israel From Themselves

Cartoons: 9/11 Reflecting Pool

Ear to the Ground: Scenes From the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Ear to the Ground: No, Thank You—Don’t Come Again

Cartoons: Middle East Dominoes

Ear to the Ground: Tom Engelhardt: America, Tear Down ‘Freedom Tower’

Reports: 10 Years Later, It’s Time to ‘Broaden the Context’

Reports: Recognize That It’s Over

Reports: How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11

Ear to the Ground: Chomsky 10 Years After 9/11

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Troops Begin Departure From Iraq

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

Reports: Bin Laden’s Unintended Legacy

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Sworn In as Director of CIA

Ear to the Ground: ‘The Price of 9/11’

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Ear to the Ground: New Look at an Alleged U.S. Massacre in Iraq

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: Always Some Bushie There to Remind Us

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Wasting $12M Daily on War Contracts

Reports: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

Reports: Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propaganda

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Wasted $30 Billion on Contractors

Reports: Prosecuting War Crimes? Be Sure to Read the Fine Print

Reports: Obama Can’t Win for Winning

Ear to the Ground: A Look at the ‘Bush-Obama’ Presidency

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Hikers in Iran Sentenced to 8 Years

Reports: Where’s the Syria Plan?

Ear to the Ground: The Cost of America’s Wars: Felt but Unknown

Ear to the Ground: Naomi Klein on Riots and Resistance

Reports: President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

Reports: The Man Who Doesn’t Want to Be President

Truthdig Podcast: Kucinich Says Obama Got the Deal He Wanted

A/V Booth: Kucinich Says Obama Got the Deal He Wanted

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Reports: War Is a Racket

Reports: America’s Disappeared

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Assassination Machine

Reports: Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Ear to the Ground: Forget Congress, Alan Grayson Should Pull a Palin

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch: Prosecute the Bush War Criminals

Ear to the Ground: New Defense Secretary Spreads Bush’s Lies About Iraq

Reports: Over There With George M. Cohan

Reports: WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Reports: Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President

Ear to the Ground: The Drawdown That Wasn’t

Reports: $4 Trillion for War—and Counting

Reports: Our Robotic Assassins

Ear to the Ground: Monthly U.S. Troop Deaths in Iraq Hit a Two-Year High

Reports: Obama and the Agony of Prudence

Cartoons: War and Peace

Ear to the Ground: 400,000 Brain-Injured Veterans Due Home From Afghanistan and Iraq

Arts and Culture: ‘Shade It Black’: The Bodybaggers of Iraq

Ear to the Ground: At Least 23 Killed in Trio of Explosions in Baghdad

Reports: Bad News for a Country Tired of War

Ear to the Ground: Jon Stewart Fails PolitiFact’s ‘Truth-O-Meter’

Reports: Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

Ear to the Ground: Ex-Spy Says Bush White House Wanted to ‘Get’ Juan Cole

Reports: Michele Bachmann Makes Dubya Look Good

Truthdig Podcast: The Body Baggers of Iraq

A/V Booth: The Body Baggers of Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Iraq: The Case of the Missing $6.6 Billion

Cartoons: Running on Empty

Reports: Budget Problems, America? Try Ending Your Many Wars

Reports: War Is the New Normal

A/V Booth: And Now, Your Obligatory Presidential Memorial Day Speech

Ear to the Ground: General Passed Over for Giving Obama Advice

A/V Booth: Bradley Manning’s Mind

Ear to the Ground: Budget Watchdog Blames Debt Crisis on Bush Policy

Reports: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West

Truthdig Podcast: Bill Moyers: ‘We’re Almost Out of Time’

A/V Booth: Bill Moyers: ‘We’re Almost Out of Time’

Reports: Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges: ‘We Speak in the Language of Terrorism’

Reports: The Return of the Real McCain

Cartoons: Expert Marksman

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

Reports: Tough Enough

Cartoons: Graphic bin Laden Picture

Reports: A Monster of Our Own Creation

Ear to the Ground: How Bin Laden Got Away in 2001

Reports: A Fork in the Road: Where the U.S. Goes From Here

Reports: Chris Hedges Speaks on Osama bin Laden’s Death

Ear to the Ground: Osama bin Laden Is Dead (Updated)

Reports: All the WikiLeaks Fit to Print

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges: The Truth About War

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Abandon the Anti-War Movement

Ear to the Ground: Pulitzer Source Says New York Times Didn’t Submit WikiLeaks Reporting

Ear to the Ground: British Government Memos Tie Iraq Invasion to Big Oil

Reports: What Stanley McChrystal Did to Pat Tillman’s Family

Reports: U.S.-Backed Bloodshed Stains Bahrain’s Arab Spring

Ear to the Ground: Sadr Delivers an Ultimatum to U.S.

Reports: This Is What Resistance Looks Like

Reports: Intellectual Prostitution and the Myth of Objectivity

Arts and Culture: Robin Williams as Atheist Tiger in Baghdad

Arts and Culture: Land of War and Honey

Reports: Truth About a False Choice

A/V Booth: Obama Addresses His Third Muslim War

Reports: The Sleeping Giants of Tiny Bahrain

Cartoons: Don’t Forget to Wipe

Reports: Paradox and Principle in the New Mideast

Reports: The Libyan Question: Now What?

Cartoons: Give Obama a Chance

Reports: ‘Death and After in Iraq’

Ear to the Ground: Inconsistent Principles

Cartoons: The Policy Bracket

Arts and Culture: Empathy for the Devil

A/V Booth: Truthdig Radio: Osama bin Laden and Nuclear Meltdown

Truthdig Podcast: Truthdig Radio: Osama bin Laden and Nuclear Meltdown

Reports: American Ignorance Keeps American Power in Check

Cartoons: Helping Hand

Reports: People Power vs. Washington

Reports: When America Left Arab Rebels to the Slaughter

Reports: Western Intervention in Libya Should Not Fly

Reports: Obama Has 11 Options in Libya, None Ideal

Reports: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

Cartoons: The Overthinker

Reports: The Battle of the Budgets: New Fronts in the Afghan and Iraq Wars

Reports: No Other Way Out

Ear to the Ground: Gates Warns Against Wars Like Iraq and Afghanistan

Reports: Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest

Reports: New Regimes Have Reason to Resent America

Reports: Will the Egyptian Revolution Also Devour Its Young?

Reports: Obama’s Budget: Freezing the Poor

Reports: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman

Ear to the Ground: 48 Dead in Iraq Suicide Attack

Cartoons: Rumsfeld’s Book

Reports: Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

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