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Ear to the Ground: Iran and Israel: Only Half the Story

Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

A/V Booth: Report Contradicts Obama on Drone Casualties

Ear to the Ground: Syrian Army Unleashes Heavy Attack on Homs

Reports: Why Russia Just Can’t Quit Syria’s Dictator

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Game of Death

Reports: What Happened in Florida Won’t Stay in Florida

Reports: Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline

Reports: Corporations Have No Use for Borders

A/V Booth: ‘The Invisible War’ Brings Rape in the Military Into Focus

Reports: Is a Nuclear Iran Really to Be Feared?

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Reports: Surviving the Hell of War, and Then Some

Truthdig Podcast: Chris Hedges on His Lawsuit Against the President

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on His Lawsuit Against the President

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Raising Cane Against the ‘Morality Police’

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

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: Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Zuccotti Park Reoccupied

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

A/V Booth: Do We Need to Worry About the NDAA?

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Hopes for a Pakistan Comeback

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

Ear to the Ground: Arab League Pushes for Progress in Syria

Ear to the Ground: Fiji Military Says It Will Lift Martial Law

Reports: Could Ron Paul Be the Next Ralph Nader?

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Targets Obama

Cartoons: Liberty Detained

Ear to the Ground: America’s Christmas Present to Her Favorite Despots

Reports: Marginalizing Ron Paul

Cartoons: Iraq Wound

Ear to the Ground: Kim Jong Un Takes Charge

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: Marissa Gaeta and Citlalic Snell

Ear to the Ground: Washington Funds Militarization of Police Departments

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: Drone

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: The Worst So Far

Reports: Dennis Kucinich on the NDAA and ‘War Without End’

Reports: Do We Want Mitt Romney Answering the ‘3 A.M.’ Call?

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: NDAA Dissenters in Congress

Cartoons: Speech at Fort Bragg

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch Says Obama Will Go Down in History—and Not in a Good Way

Cartoons: Welcome Home

Ear to the Ground: America the Battlefield

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Ear to the Ground: Obama, Maliki Make It Official

Reports: War With Iran? School Prayer? Just More Republican Campaign Promises

A/V Booth: New Documentary Confronts Military Rape

Cartoons: U.S. Regrets Friendly Fire Deaths in Pakistan

Reports: Thought Crime in Washington

Cartoons: Tahrir Square

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Return of the Revolution

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

Reports: How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War

Ear to the Ground: Tahrir Square All Over Again

Reports: The Easiest Way to Cut the Deficit

A/V Booth: Robert Reich and Robert Scheer at Occupy L.A. Teach-In

Reports: How Libya Plays Into NATO’s Identity Crisis

Cartoons: Red Menace

Reports: Call of Duty: Veterans Join the 99 Percent

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

Reports: A Master Class in Occupation

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Torture in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Reports: The Worst Generation

Reports: How the Rich Subverted the Legal System

Reports: At a Loss for a World View

Reports: Turkish Kurds Surrounded by War and Promises

Reports: Government by Death Panel

Reports: If a Republican Were President

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Egypt’s Black Sunday

Reports: China Fears Are Misplaced

Cartoons: Out of Vietnam

Ear to the Ground: From Our Arsenal to Yours

Reports: Afghanistan Is Obama’s Gordian Knot

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Who’s the Bad Wolf Today?

Ear to the Ground: If Santorum Were President

Ear to the Ground: Adm. Mullen Says Pakistan Intelligence Supports Bombers

Ear to the Ground: From Top to Bottom, Supercommittee Is in the War Lobby’s Pocket

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

Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Is Dead. Now What?

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

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

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Manipulating the Mob

Ear to the Ground: Concern in New Egypt as Police Raid Al-Jazeera

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

Reports: Recognize That It’s Over

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

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Tensions Mount in Revolution Central

Reports: Sept. 11 and ‘A New Birth of Freedom’

Ear to the Ground: Military Establishment Takes Three Whacks at Robert Gates

Reports: 9/11 Victim 0001: Father Mychal’s Message

Reports: Bin Laden’s Unintended Legacy

Ear to the Ground: Turkey Imposes Further Sanctions on Israel

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: Always Some Bushie There to Remind Us

Ear to the Ground: A First in Iraq War: A Month With No U.S. Dead

Reports: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Army Trains Settlers to Confront Palestinian Protesters

Reports: Obama Can’t Win for Winning

Reports: Victory in Tripoli: They Did It

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Flagman and ‘Our Martyrs in Sinai’

Reports: Perry’s Big Mouth Is Giving Republicans Headaches

Ear to the Ground: A Peek at the Military’s Budget for Eternal Salvation

Reports: Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System

Reports: Where’s the Syria Plan?

Reports: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas

Arts and Culture: Jodie Foster Helps Fund the Search for Alien Life

Reports: Assassination as Foreign Policy

Reports: President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

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

Reports: Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Reports: War Is a Racket

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Ready to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Reports: The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan’s Incredible Duplicity: Chapter Two

Reports: America’s Disappeared

A/V Booth: The Christian Conspiracy to Take Over the Military

Truthdig Podcast: The Christian Conspiracy to Take Over the Military

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Reports: Extremely Unctuous

Reports: Making a Progressive Case

Reports: New China Will Be Red and Expert

Reports: Over There With George M. Cohan

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Reports: Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President

Ear to the Ground: Hey Thai Government, This Girl Just Kicked Your Ass

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Lawyer Blocked From U.S. After Suing CIA on Drone Strikes

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Reconciliation Efforts Have Failed

Reports: $4 Trillion for War—and Counting

Reports: Our Robotic Assassins

Reports: Get Out of Afghanistan

Reports: Obama and the Agony of Prudence

Reports: The Economics of a ‘Rabbit Cage’

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

Reports: Why Does the War Go On?

Reports: Bad News for a Country Tired of War

Ear to the Ground: Obama Expects Three More Years of War

Reports: Obama Is Wrong on War Powers

Ear to the Ground: Obama Expected to Announce Afghanistan Decision Wednesday

Ear to the Ground: Once Again, Obama Faces a Choice in Afghanistan

Reports: Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

Reports: War on Drugs: Fast, Furious and Fueled by the U.S.

Reports: Declare Victory—and Leave

Reports: Reflections on Israel: From Idealism to Ethnic Cleansing

Reports: On His Way Out, Gates Talks About ‘Access’ to Asia

Ear to the Ground: Obama Nearly Triples Bagram Detainee Population

Cartoons: Camouflage

Reports: Workers and Women Fight for Their Share of Egypt’s Revolution

Reports: Hope and Resistance in Honduras

Reports: The New American Segregation: The Military

Ear to the Ground: Hack Us and We’ll Bomb You

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

A/V Booth: Bradley Manning’s Mind

Arts and Culture: Exclusive: Ry Cooder’s ‘No Banker Left Behind’

Reports: Libyan Intervention Exposes European Disunity

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

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: We Are All Palestinian Now

Reports: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic

Reports: The Return of the Real McCain

Truthdig Podcast: Truthdig Radio: How the U.S. Co-Opted Human Rights

A/V Booth: Truthdig Radio: How the U.S. Co-Opted Human Rights

Cartoons: Osama at Sea

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

Reports: The High Cost of Cheap War

Reports: Tough Enough

Reports: Accomplish the Mission: Bring the Troops Home

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

Cartoons: Endless Afghans

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Reportedly Gives Up Pakistan Drone Base

Ear to the Ground: Airstrikes Alone Aren’t Enough in Eastern Libya

Reports: Needed: A Better Ruling Class

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

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

Ear to the Ground: Deadly Crackdown in Tahrir Square

Ear to the Ground: Saudis Play Into Radical islam’s Hands

Reports: One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York

Ear to the Ground: Secret History of the Libyan Uprising

Ear to the Ground: KSM Headed to Kangaroo Kourt

Ear to the Ground: Libyan Rebels Look for a Cease-Fire

Reports: Lessons of Libya

Ear to the Ground: With Libya, Sec. Gates Puts His Foot Down

Reports: Truth About a False Choice

Reports: Obama, Meet Obama

Reports: Filling in the Blanks

Reports: What About Syria?

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