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Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Don’t Work

Reports: Washington’s Overrated ‘Old Hands’

Reports: Bush’s Semantic Withdrawal

Ear to the Ground: Bush Considering ‘General’ Withdrawal Timetable

Reports: Obama’s Disaster in the Making

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

Reports: The New Dominion

Reports: Iran Shows Its Cards

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Plan for Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Occupation Negotiations Hit Snags

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

Reports: Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime

Ear to the Ground: Tehran Shoots, Obama Scorns

Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev Scolds Obama and McCain

Ear to the Ground: U.S.-Russian Tensions Rise Over Missile Shield Plan

Arts and Culture: Pentagon Looking to Help Shape War Films

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Mulls Troop Pullout

Reports: Surviving the Fourth of July

Cartoons: Wee the People

Reports: A Loss of Transatlantic Harmony

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Borrowed Interrogation Methods From an Old Enemy

Reports: Fake Outrage Over Clark Comments

Ear to the Ground: Private Contractors in Iraq to Lose Immunity

Reports: Bush’s Loose Ends

Ear to the Ground: McCain, Obama Rebuke Clark

Reports: The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves

Ear to the Ground: Congress’ Missing Backbone

Reports: An Unexamined Threat

Ear to the Ground: Women Bear the Brunt of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Reports: A Government of Law, Not Fear

Reports: Time for the Iraq Debate to Move On

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Negotiations Hinge on Sovereignty

Ear to the Ground: Boeing Gains Ally in Tanker Battle

Ear to the Ground: Senators Fume Over Torture Revelations

Reports: Impatient Justice

Reports: John McCain’s Chilling Project for America

Ear to the Ground: Victims of Military Chemical Tests Demand Answers

Reports: Investigate This

Ear to the Ground: Counter-Recruiters Push for School Access

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Lawyer Alleges Torture Evidence Destruction

Reports: The Iran Trap

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Has Iran’s Back

Cartoons: The Pretty Good Generation

Reports: Indefensible Spending

Reports: The Corporate State and the Subversion of Democracy

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Truant as Cluster Bomb Treaty Is Signed

Reports: The Lamont Lesson

Reports: Israel’s Self-Destruction as a Jewish State

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

Reports: Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be Confronted

Ear to the Ground: Memorial Day: Campaign Trail Edition

Ear to the Ground: Colombian Army Reports FARC Leader Dead

Reports: Torturing Iron Man

Reports: Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Serve in ‘Illegal’ War

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on Our ‘Managed Democracy’

Reports: Toward a New Washington Consensus

Reports: Trading Spaces, Iraq Edition

Reports: The Face of Torture

Reports: Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel

Reports: Iraq’s Mosul a ‘Ghost City’

Ear to the Ground: Reporting From Burma: A Thriller

Reports: Taking a Stand Against War

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Bounces Back

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

Ear to the Ground: U.N. to Resume Burma Aid

Reports: Hillary Plays the Crazy Card

Reports: The U.S. War on Journalists

Ear to the Ground: Preparations Made for Sadr City Assault

Reports: Mission Impossible

Reports: The Pentagon vs. America

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

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

Reports: Bloated in Baghdad

Reports: Hope for Corporate America

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Eyeing Military Option Aganst Iran

Ear to the Ground: Promoting Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Gates: Another Mideast War Would be ‘Disastrous’

Reports: For the GOP, a Tough Sell

Reports: Carter Was Right to Meet With Hamas

Ear to the Ground: NYT: Pentagon Primed TV Military Experts

Reports: The $3-Trillion War

Cartoons: Basic Training

Arts and Culture: Steve Wasserman on Fidel Castro

Reports: The Long, Sorrowful Ludlow Legacy

Reports: Road to Nowhere

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus: ‘There Are Risks Beyond Iraq’

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

Reports: Failing the Troops

Reports: Are We Closer to ‘Victory’?

Reports: A Torture Debate Among Healers

Reports: Torture’s Poet Laureate

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

Reports: Consider Iraq Defined

Ear to the Ground: Sadr Cuts a Deal

Arts and Culture: Fred Branfman on Tom Brokaw’s ‘Boom!’

Ear to the Ground: The Case of the Moldy Ammunition

Reports: Body of War

Reports: The Next 4,000

Ear to the Ground: War’s Harsh Echo

Reports: A Conscientious Objection

Reports: The Pentagon Has Always Gone Hollywood

Reports: Whatever Happened to Ending the War?

Reports: The Folks Who Brought You Iraq

Reports: Winter Soldier Marches Again

Reports: War Started With Lies, Continues With Lies

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

Reports: Dinner With Ahmed

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Violence on the Rise

Ear to the Ground: Top Commander for Mideast Resigns

Reports: Why George Bush Loves John McCain

Reports: Putting Clinton and Obama on the Grill

Reports: The World as It Is

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Rivals Join Forces

Ear to the Ground: Iraq, Turkey Look to End Kurdish Clashes

Arts and Culture: Warren Cohen on the Rise (and Fall) of the Neocons

Reports: Visit Trumpets Iran’s Power in Iraq

Reports: McCain’s Political Quagmire

Reports: The Mughniyeh Enigma

Reports: The Calm Before the Conflagration

Reports: Alex Gibney in Conversation With Robert Scheer

Ear to the Ground: Turkish Army Enters Iraq

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

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Claims Successful Hit on Faulty Satellite

Reports: No ‘Straight Talk’ on Iraq Cost

Reports: McCain’s Losing Message

A/V Booth: Tension in Wake of a Hezbollah Leader’s Assassination

Reports: Homeland Insecurity

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Outlaw Waterboarding

Ear to the Ground: Whispering in the Ear of the President

Reports: The War Against Tolerance

A/V Booth: France Catches Colonial Fever

Ear to the Ground: Putin and the New ‘Arms Race’

Reports: What Will McCain Do Now?

Reports: So Much for Conventional Wisdom

Reports: The Legacy of Bush II

Reports: Iraq’s Tragic Future

Cartoons: Bomber

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: Israel Inquiry Slams Political and Military Leaders

Ear to the Ground: Protesters Punished, Blackwater Shooters Remain Free

Ear to the Ground: Saddam’s Interrogator Speaks

Ear to the Ground: Bush Bails on War Funding

Ear to the Ground: The 935 Lies They Told Us About Iraq

Reports: What They Call ‘Progress’ in Iraq

Reports: The Pakistan Conundrum

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Gassed Baghdad Checkpoint in 2005

Ear to the Ground: Surge Success at a Rate of $10 a Day

Reports: The Five Iraqs

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

Reports: Is Bush Stopped in His Tracks on Iran?

Ear to the Ground: Circling the Wagons in Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: Turkey Bombs Kurds in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Navy Chaplain Gets Two Years for Sex Abuse

Ear to the Ground: Bush Still Hawkish on Iran Despite Nuke Report

Reports: The Grown-Ups Never Showed Up

Reports: Have They No Shame?

Reports: America in the Time of Empire

Reports: The Not-So-Sick Man of Europe Does Matter

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

Ear to the Ground: AP Backs Photographer Held in Insurgency Case

Reports: Imaginary Weapons

Reports: What Are We Fighting For?

Arts and Culture: Rambo to the Rescue in Burma

Reports: Sane Officers Oppose Cheney

Ear to the Ground: FBI Blames Blackwater in 14 Civilian Deaths

Reports: Bush Stands by His Dictator

Ear to the Ground: Time to Take UFOs Seriously?

Reports: In the Hands of the Military

Cartoons: Safe Dad

Reports: The Cancer From Within

Ear to the Ground: Standards for Recruits With Criminal Records May Ease

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

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

Ear to the Ground: Monks Venture Out in Burma

Reports: Cashing In on Terror

Truthdig Podcast: Imaginary Weapons

A/V Booth: Mosaic on America’s Sanctions Against Iran

Ear to the Ground: Missile Defense Test a Direct Hit

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on America’s Forgotten War

Ear to the Ground: A State Dept. Band-Aid for Blackwater Problem

Cartoons: Turkish Abyss

Ear to the Ground: Bush Wants Even More Money for the Wars

Ear to the Ground: A Chink in Clinton’s Armor?

Ear to the Ground: Britain to Investigate ‘CIA Black Site’

Arts and Culture: Jason Epstein on the Nuclear Threat

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Awards Iran Contracts, U.S. Sulks

Ear to the Ground: Turkey OKs Attacks on Kurds in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Former Top General Calls Bush ‘Incompetent’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Kills 9 Children in Airstrike

Ear to the Ground: Jenna Bush Dodges Military Service Question

Reports: Inside the Military-Industrial Complex

Cartoons: Bush’s Advisers

Ear to the Ground: Leading Iraqis Get Practical

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Wheels and Deals as Election Looms in Pakistan

Reports: The Quickest Way to End the War

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