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Cartoons: 24-Week News Cycle

Reports: Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?

Reports: U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, but Unsettled Issues Remain

Ear to the Ground: 20 Killed in Kirkuk Suicide Bombing

Cartoons: The Long Goodbye

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Ear to the Ground: We’ll Always Have Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: GIs Aren’t Leaving Iraq Just Yet

Ear to the Ground: Bomb Rips Baghdad Market Ahead of U.S. Pullback

Ear to the Ground: Cheney’s Satanic Verses

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Cartoons: Promises, Promises

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Ear to the Ground: Rise in GI Alcohol Abuse Indicated

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

Ear to the Ground: Congress Funds Wars With Billions to Spare

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Ear to the Ground: Hearts and Minds Redux

A/V Booth: Talking Iraq in Iraq

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’ Invades Iraq

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

Reports: Obama’s Cairo Speech: Significant, Eloquent—and Perhaps Just the Beginning

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Official Seeks More Clarity on Civilian Deaths

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Number of Private Security Contractors Increases

A/V Booth: Democracy Now! News Highlights

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Disavows 9/11-Iraq Link

Reports: War Is Sin

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: America Is Greedy, Not Good

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Denies That Prison Photos Depict Rape

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Reports: Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

A/V Booth: ‘Winter Soldier on the Hill’

Reports: Cheney and the Iraq-Torture Link

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Soldier Guns Down 5 Comrades

Ear to the Ground: Gates Orders a Change of Command in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Suicide Rates for U.S. Soldiers at Record High

Reports: British Government Gives Iraq Story a Final Spin

Ear to the Ground: One If by Land, Two If by Flee

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Joe Wilson Wants Dick Cheney to Let It All Hang Out

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Release More Torture Photos

Reports: Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam With 9/11

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Death Toll Tops 87,000 Since 2005

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Ear to the Ground: Apple Goes to War

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Ear to the Ground: Female Soldiers Battle Sexual Violence

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

Ear to the Ground: AIG’s War Business Draws Criticism

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Cartoons: The War at Home

Ear to the Ground: They Don’t Build Democracies Like They Used To

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

A/V Booth: Gore Vidal: ‘The Most Interesting Man in the World’

Cartoons: Tax for the Memories

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Catches a Break

Ear to the Ground: Obama Shows the Troops Some Love

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Reports: The Business of War

Truthdig Podcast: The Business of War

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on the God Debate

Reports: America’s ‘Long War’ Will Be as Bloody and Pointless as Europe’s

Ear to the Ground: Awakening on the Wrong Side of the Bed

A/V Booth: ‘How Did This Country Get Stuck With an Empire?’

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Reports: Newspapers’ Self-Inflicted Wounds

Reports: Obama’s Plan to Save the World

Ear to the Ground: Death Penalty Keeps U.S. in Bad Company

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Ear to the Ground: Military Rapes Jump 9 Percent

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Gets 3 Years in Prison

Reports: Was Helicopter Deal a Tool in Bush’s War Scam?

Truthdig Podcast: Was Helicopter Deal a Tool in Bush’s War Scam?

Ear to the Ground: Top U.S. General in Iraq Says U.S. Won’t Be Invited to Stick Around

Reports: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Troop Shuffle Leaves Us Dizzy

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Scores a Hit With Talk-Show Diplomacy

Reports: The A Word

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Cartoons: Withdrawal 101

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater CEO Steps Down

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: Redistributionist, and That’s Just Fine

Cartoons: The Sports Nut

Ear to the Ground: Obama Calls Bush About Iraq

A/V Booth: Iraq Withdrawal Lite

Ear to the Ground: War in Iraq: 2003-2010

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Cartoons: Under New Management

Reports: A Choice Between Peace and Peril

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Soldier Found Guilty of Murder in Iraq Killings

Reports: U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

Cartoons: The Pencil

Reports: Good News for the Taliban

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Ear to the Ground: Obama Throws 17,000 Troops at Afghanistan Mess

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Reports: A Team of Zombies

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Watchdog Looks Back on Years of Reconstruction Waste

Reports: It’s Not Going to Be OK

A/V Booth: Obama Says He’ll Bring Many Troops Home for Next Super Bowl

Reports: America Faces the Music in Davos

Ear to the Ground: Army Suicide Rate Highest in Decades

Ear to the Ground: No They Can’t

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

A/V Booth: ‘Mosaic’: The Inauguration, as Seen From the Middle East

Cartoons: The Bush Years

Reports: It’s Over—and Not a Moment Too Soon

Reports: What Can Obama Learn From Bush?

Reports: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Arts and Culture: Moore May Face Lawsuit Over Iraq Photo

A/V Booth: President Bush Signs Off

Reports: Who’s in Charge—Obama, the Pentagon or Israel?

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Fails in Human Rights Role

Reports: The Afghan Scam

Reports: Bush’s Short View of History

Reports: One for the Workers

Reports: The Language of Death

Reports: Yukking It Up at the Blago Show

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: Voices of Resistance Sing On

A/V Booth: The Middle East in 2009

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by Bush’s Farewell Tour

Reports: The Road Out of Iraq Begins in Vietnam

Ear to the Ground: Back to the Future: U.S. to Arm Afghan Militias

Reports: Cheney’s Legacy of Deception

Reports: From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

Reports: Man Is a Cruel Animal

Ear to the Ground: Judge: Iraqi Shoeman Beaten

Arts and Culture: James Blight on McGeorge Bundy

Reports: Pondering the Inner Meanings of Bill’s Big List

A/V Booth: Shoe Play With Karl Rove

Reports: President Bush and the Flying Shoes: A Cautionary Tale

Reports: Blundering U.S. Should Spare the World Any More Nation Building

Ear to the Ground: Shoe Thrower Allegedly Beaten

Ear to the Ground: Shoes and Boos for Outgoing Bush

A/V Booth: Bush Survives Shoe Attack

Ear to the Ground: Report Reveals Major Problems With Iraq Reconstruction

Reports: Time to Cut the Military Pork

Reports: Senate Panel’s Report on U.S. Torture Abuse

A/V Booth: Bush’s Legacy Untangled

Ear to the Ground: Love Is a Battlefield

Reports: West’s Role in Afghanistan Needs Re-Examining

Ear to the Ground: Talking Points Celebrate Bush’s 8 Wonderful Years

Reports: Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug

Reports: Obama Embraces the Military

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Guards Indicted for Shootings

Cartoons: The Scalpel

Reports: Bush the Infallible

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

Reports: Was There Any Point to the Bloodshed in Mumbai?

A/V Booth: Gates Was ‘Hoping the Question Would Never Be Popped’

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Ear to the Ground: Bush Admits He Was ‘Unprepared for War’

Reports: Confronting the Terrorist Within

Ear to the Ground: Bush Speaks of Legacy

Reports: Our Dear Leader

Reports: Obama the Realist

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Parliament Approves Occupation Deal

Reports: Bush’s Follies Will Destroy Obama If He Lets Them

A/V Booth: Mark Halperin Labels Election Coverage ‘Disgusting’

Cartoons: Thanks From Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Thousands Protest U.S. Pact

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Ear to the Ground: Gates Might Stick Around

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Cabinet OK’s Occupation Deal

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

Reports: How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

Reports: With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Ear to the Ground: How Bloody Can Bush’s Legacy Be?

Ear to the Ground: Bush Regrets ‘Mission Accomplished’ and More

Reports: The Danger in Timidity

Reports: Only One Good Path for the Democrats: Go Big

Reports: Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama

Reports: Organizer in Chief

Reports: A New Era of Hope

Reports: Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

Reports: The Obama Standard

A/V Booth: Palin Talks of Wars in ‘Iraq and Iran’

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