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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

Ear to the Ground: Congress Tries to Close Blackwater Loophole

Reports: Breaking the Taboo: Why We Took On the Israel Lobby

Arts and Culture: Milton Viorst on ‘The Israel Lobby’

Ear to the Ground: Burma General to Meet Opposition Leader

Ear to the Ground: Slain Soldier’s Family Wants Answers From Pentagon

Reports: Limbaugh’s ‘Phony Soldiers’ Slur

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Envoy in Burma: ‘Where Are the Monks?’

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan ‘Losing War’ With Insurgents

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Founder Takes a Beating in Congress

Reports: Chevron’s Pipeline Is the Burmese Regime’s Lifeline

Ear to the Ground: Good News and Bad News from Adm. Mullen

Ear to the Ground: Report Points to Blackwater’s Excessive Violence

Cartoons: Burma Crackdown

Reports: Israel’s Toy Soldiers

Cartoons: George

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: The Monks of Burma

Cartoons: Burma Protest

Reports: Iraq Will Have to Wait

Ear to the Ground: Gen. Pace on Gays and ‘God’s Law’

Reports: Bush the Saboteur

Ear to the Ground: Navy to Obscure Giant Swastika

Ear to the Ground: Bush to Tighten Sanctions on Burma

Truthdig Podcast: Inside the Military-Industrial Complex

Ear to the Ground: Burma Protest Goes Massive

Ear to the Ground: Team Bush Wants $50 Billion More for ’08 Military Budget

Ear to the Ground: Raytheon’s New ‘Silent Guardian’ Brings the Pain

Reports: Privatizing Murder

Reports: The Illusion of Progress in Iraq

Reports: Letting Our Veterans Down

Reports: The General Lies

Ear to the Ground: Fixing the Numbers

Ear to the Ground: Lost Nukes Headed to Iran?

Ear to the Ground: Faludi on 9/11 and American Mythology

Ear to the Ground: Female Troops Speak Out About Sexual Assault

Ear to the Ground: China Denies Hacking Pentagon

Ear to the Ground: Joint Chiefs Chairman Likely to Back Big Cut in Troops

Ear to the Ground: Troops Still Waiting for Armored Vehicles

Ear to the Ground: The War as They Saw It

Reports: Bye-Bye Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: Army Suicide Rate at Quarter-Century High

Ear to the Ground: Political Danger in Turkey

Ear to the Ground: Army Throws Cash at Recruitment Problem

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Sold Banned Jet Equipment

Reports: Out How:  The Economics of Ending Wars

Bazaar: Iraq: A War

Reports: Iraq Vets Break Silence on Devastating Realities of War

Reports: Carnage From the Air

Reports: A Declaration of Independence From Israel

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Mostly Ignores Deserters

Ear to the Ground: Military Chiefs Have ‘Surge’ Doubts

Ear to the Ground: Gen. Pace Isn’t Going Quietly

A/V Booth: No Debate on Gays in the Military

Reports: Hypocritical Oath: Psychologists and Torture

Ear to the Ground: The Next Cold War?

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Prepares for U.S. Withdrawal

Ear to the Ground: White House ‘Strongly Opposes’ Extra Pay for Troops

Cartoons: Harry’s Setback

Ear to the Ground: If at First You Don’t Convict, Try, Try Again

Ear to the Ground: Meet the War Czar

Ear to the Ground: Australia Has Had Enough of Kangaroos

Ear to the Ground: Search for Missing Troops Continues Despite Threats

Ear to the Ground: YouTube Banned on Military Computers

Ear to the Ground: Bush Has Veto Fever

Ear to the Ground: China and Russia Deny Involvement in Darfur Genocide

Ear to the Ground: Furor in Afghanistan Over Civilian Deaths

A/V Booth: Military Wife to Kristol: How Do You Sleep at Night?

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