Tag: military

Reports: Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?

A/V Booth: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: Undo the Coup

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Ear to the Ground: Honduran President Shall Return

Ear to the Ground: We’ll Always Have Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: Honduras’ Leftist President Gets the Boot

A/V Booth: Turning Soldiers Into Crusaders

Reports: A Settlement Stalemate With No End in Sight

Ear to the Ground: Order to U.S. Troops: No Firefights Near Afghan Villagers

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

Ear to the Ground: Obama OKs Some Benefits for Gay Federal Workers’ Partners

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Ear to the Ground: An Army of Fun

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’ Invades Iraq

Reports: Hold Your Applause

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

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

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Ear to the Ground: Airstrike Rules Broken, Pentagon Finds

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Reports: War Is Sin

Cartoons: The Horror

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

A/V Booth: Lt. Dan Choi Leads Gay Rights Rally Outside Obama Fundraiser

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Joins the Digital Arms Race

Reports: Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

Ear to the Ground: Obama Signs Weapons Spending Reform Bill

Ear to the Ground: The Fierce Urgency of Whenever

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on the Cost of Empire

Arts and Culture: Lou Cannon on Ronald Reagan

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Arts and Culture: Polish Politics at the Piano

Cartoons: Too Old

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Apple Goes to War

Cartoons: The Downside

Reports: Up, Up and Away: The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

Reports: The Pirates Might Prefer Fish to Guns

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

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

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

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wants a Nuke-Free World

Ear to the Ground: World Reacts to North Korean Launch

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

Ear to the Ground: Israel’s Gaza Inquiry Finds Israel Innocent

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

Reports: Drugs, Guns and Reality

Ear to the Ground: Rabbis Stirred Holy War, Israeli Soldiers Claim

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Ear to the Ground: Obama Looks for an ‘Exit Strategy’ in Afghanistan

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Human Rights Investigator Accuses Israel of War Crimes

Ear to the Ground: Good News and Bad News for Alternative Lifestylists

Ear to the Ground: Mutually Assured Defense Spending

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Ear to the Ground: Military Rapes Jump 9 Percent

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

Cartoons: Practice Course

Reports: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

Reports: Nine Secret Bush-Era Documents Released

Ear to the Ground: CIA Torture Coverup Was Worse Than We Knew

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: At Last, Accepting Some Clues From Across the Pond

Ear to the Ground: Mexican Drug Lords Depend on Gun-Crazy America

Reports: A Choice Between Peace and Peril

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

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: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

Reports: Israel’s Lose-Lose Election

Ear to the Ground: PR Worries Stalled Release of Gitmo Inmates

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Arts and Culture: David Rieff on ‘Africa’s World War’

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

Reports: It’s Not Going to Be OK

Ear to the Ground: Army Suicide Rate Highest in Decades

Ear to the Ground: Gates Changes Afghanistan Tune

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Reports: Civilian Courts Can Deal With Terrorism Cases

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

Ear to the Ground: Israeli PM Promises to Shield Troops From War Crime Trials

Reports: Obama’s Salvage Operation

Ear to the Ground: Obama Puts Gitmo Trials on Hold

Reports: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Ear to the Ground: Israel’s Chemical Warfare?

Arts and Culture: Christian Appy on ‘Mekong Diaries’

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

Ear to the Ground: Obama Will End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Reports: The Drama of Reciprocal Self-Destruction

Reports: Bush’s Short View of History

Reports: The Language of Death

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Reports: Israeli Voices for Peace

Ear to the Ground: Obama Picks Top Spies

Arts and Culture: Andrew Nagorski on the Bolsheviks’ Crimes

Reports: Our Cuba Policy: A Failure at 50

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: Why I Am a Socialist

Ear to the Ground: Amid Tensions, Pakistan Moves Troops

Reports: The Road Out of Iraq Begins in Vietnam

Arts and Culture: James Blight on McGeorge Bundy

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

Ear to the Ground: Shoe Thrower Allegedly Beaten

Reports: Israel’s ‘Crime Against Humanity’

Reports: Settlement Extremists Threaten Israel’s Moral Substance

Ear to the Ground: Brazilian Indians Win Land Battle

Reports: Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug

Reports: Obama Embraces the Military

A/V Booth: Navy Plane Crashes in San Diego Neighborhood

Cartoons: The Scalpel

Reports: The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff

Truthdig Podcast: ‘Why We Fight’ Director on the American Way of War

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

Reports: Chevron in the White House

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

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Reports: Obama the Realist

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Parliament Approves Occupation Deal

Ear to the Ground: Political Crisis Puts Thailand on Hold

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

Reports: Tutu, Obama and the Middle East

Reports: Starving for Change

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan PM: U.S. Airstrikes ‘Intolerable’

Reports: A View From the South

Ear to the Ground: Retired Military Leaders Denounce ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Reports: America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

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

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

Ear to the Ground: Secret Rumsfeld Order OK’d Raids in All Nations

Reports: Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama

Reports: The Red Is Fading in a Virginia Bellwether

Reports: Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

Ear to the Ground: Troops Have to Fight for Their Right to Vote

A/V Booth: ‘What Happens in Syria Stays in Syria’

Reports: Closing Guantanamo

Reports: Homeland Security Pays Dividends for Alaska

Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

Reports: Hell to Pay

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Virtual JFK: The 44th President’s Foreign Policy Challenge

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Attack in Syria Kills 8

Ear to the Ground: Citizen Tim Takes On Obama by Himself

Ear to the Ground: Time Is Running Out for Iraq Occupation Deal

Ear to the Ground: Brokering a Fragile Peace in Iraq

Arts and Culture: Simon Lewis on Traumatic Brain Injuries

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Reports: Bush Doctrine Becomes DoD Dogma

Ear to the Ground: Turkey Bombs Northern Iraq

Arts and Culture: Rosa Lowinger on Cuba Before Castro

Ear to the Ground: Report: NSA Listened In on Americans’ Phone Sex

Reports: Third-Party Blues

Reports: Nowhere for McCain to Go

Reports: What McCain and Obama Just Don’t Get About Central Asia

Reports: Investigating John McCain’s Tragedy at Sea

Ear to the Ground: British Commander Calls Taliban Unbeatable

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

Reports: Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper: Bush Told Israel Not to Bomb Iran

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Reports: Farewell, General—but Did You Bring Iraq Hope?

Ear to the Ground: Gates Sorry, Continues Dropping Bombs

Reports: Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: $40 Billion Tanker Contract Grounded

A/V Booth: Obama and O’Reilly Square Off

Ear to the Ground: What’s a Billion Dollars Between Friends?

Reports: Russia Calls NATO’s Bluff

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

A/V Booth: Showstopper

Reports: U.S. Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers’ ‘Suicides’?

Reports: The Cost of Saakashvili’s Folly

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Sides With Afghans in Airstrike Controversy

Reports: Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Accused of Jailing Journalists Without a Just Cause

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani President Musharraf Resigns

Ear to the Ground: Russian General Takes Bush’s Bait

Reports: Baghdad Behind Walls

Reports: ‘Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?’

Reports: India’s Role in the Afghan Drama

Ear to the Ground: The Power of Invisibility, Brought to You by the U.S. Military

Ear to the Ground: ‘Surge’ Rhetoric Not Universal

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