Tag: military

Reports: Battlefield in the War of Ideas

Reports: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

Reports: Enough G-2 Talk Already

Reports: The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)

Reports: Hungering for a True Thanksgiving

Reports: The Demilitarization of the White House

Reports: The New State Solution

Reports: We Need a Civilian ‘ROTC’

Reports: Bring Them Home, Mr. President

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Reports: Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Rains on Surge Parade

Reports: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount

Reports: A Disappointing Year With Obama

Reports: When a Time Bomb Is Ticking

Reports: Afghanistan’s Sham Army

Ear to the Ground: Okinawans Step Up U.S. Base Protest

Reports: Happy Birthday, Pat Tillman

Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

Reports: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: What Option for Afghan Women?

Ear to the Ground: Magic Bomb Wand Would Be Funny if It Didn’t Kill People

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

Reports: Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions

Truthdig Podcast: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: Afghan Poppy Trade Blurs All the Lines

Ear to the Ground: House Dems Water Down Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Obama Trims (Some) Fat with Weapons Bill

Reports: Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People

Reports: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Reports: The Country That Cries Wolf

Reports: Does Military Service Turn Young Men Into Sexual Predators?

Reports: Turkish Cooperation—and Coffee—in Short Supply for Israel

Cartoons: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Reports: Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country

Ear to the Ground: Obama Promises End to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Again.

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Responds to Republicans’ Sexist Nonsense

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

Reports: Pox Americana: The Real Cost of Bailing Out Wall Street

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: Communist China Turns 60—and Reveals Its Insecurities

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Ear to the Ground: Widespread Rape, 157 Dead in Guinea ‘Hell’

Ear to the Ground: Soldier of Conscience Survives Court-Martial, Goes Free

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Veterans Still Waiting for GI Bill Money

Reports: A Puzzling, Dangerous U.S. Policy Comes to an End

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Reports: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

Reports: It Came From Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Army Puts a Woman in Charge

Reports: All U.S. Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own—and Obama Has His

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Finds Israel War Crimes in Gaza

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sees Little Support for Troop Deployments

Reports: A Hundred Holocausts: An Insider’s Window Into U.S. Nuclear Policy

Ear to the Ground: Israel’s Holy Warriors

Reports: Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

Reports: Cheney Plays to His Crowd

Reports: Will Japan’s New Leader Maintain His Country’s Fealty to Washington?

Reports: Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

Reports: The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

Reports: Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War

Ear to the Ground: Putin’s Pecs and Political Roid Rage

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Can’t Stop Baghdad Bombs

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Reports: Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Surge Limited by ‘Dwell Time’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Troops on Midnight Train to Georgia

Reports: Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side

Ear to the Ground: Contractor Waste of Tax Dollars Continues

Ear to the Ground: Russia to Strengthen Presence In Abkhazia

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Offers $17M in U.S. Aid to Combat Sex Crimes in Congo

Reports: There’s a Solution in Afghanistan—but Not the Way We’re Headed

Ear to the Ground: Latin Leaders Unhappy With U.S. Move Into Colombia

Ear to the Ground: Marines Practice Battlefield Medicine on Live Pigs

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Targets Afghan Drug Suspects for Killing

Reports: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

Reports: Playing Politics With a Ghost

Ear to the Ground: Counterterrorism Chief Says Bullets Alone Won’t Do the Job

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Founder ‘Implicated in Murder’

Cartoons: Returning Soldiers

Reports: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure

Ear to the Ground: GI Bill Sends Vets Back to School

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo 2

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Civilian Toll Rises

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on Socrates

Reports: It’s Time for the U.S. to Declare Victory and Go Home

Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus

Reports: The Marvel That Is Medicare

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Set Gitmo Inmate Free in a Case Called an ‘Outrage’

Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban

Ear to the Ground: Russia: No Rebuilding of Georgia’s Military

Reports: U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

Reports: Obama Means Business About Two-State Solution

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes Down Military Boondoggle

Ear to the Ground: Army to Add 22,000 Soldiers

Ear to the Ground: Extreme Makeover: Bagram Prison Edition

A/V Booth: Taliban Releases Video of U.S. Captive

Reports: War Without Purpose

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Soldiers Blame Loose Rules for Gaza Deaths

Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?

Ear to the Ground: Friends Don’t Let Friends Bomb Iran

A/V Booth: Rep. Peter King Slams Media’s MJ Mania, Intensifies Mania in So Doing

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

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