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Reports: The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves

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

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

Reports: Investigate This

Reports: Indefensible Spending

A/V Booth: Amy Goodman Talks to Robert Scheer About ‘The Pornography of Power’

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

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Opening Gitmo 9/11 Hearings to (Some) Media Outlets

Reports: Torturing Iron Man

Reports: Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race

Reports: The Face of Torture

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

A/V Booth: Douglas Feith Defends Bush on ‘Daily Show’

Cartoons: General Happy Swellspin

Ear to the Ground: Pat and Mary Tillman Are Saluted in N.Y. Times

A/V Booth: Mary Tillman on ‘Today’: ‘Pat’s Death Was a Lie to the Country’

Reports: The Pentagon vs. America

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Eyeing Military Option Aganst Iran

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

Reports: The $3-Trillion War

Ear to the Ground: No Exit (Yet)

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

Truthdig Podcast: The $3-Trillion War

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

Reports: Body of War

Reports: The Pentagon Has Always Gone Hollywood

Reports: Whatever Happened to Ending the War?

Reports: The Folks Who Brought You Iraq

Reports: Bush’s Legacy of Failure

Reports: Reagan Democrats

Ear to the Ground: Top Commander for Mideast Resigns

Reports: What John McCain Should Know

Reports: What the Times Didn’t Tell About McCain

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Plans Satellite Shoot-Down

Ear to the Ground: Six 9/11 Suspects May Face Death Penalty

Reports: Social Terror Networking

Reports: Iraq’s Tragic Future

Reports: American Veterans in Crisis

Ear to the Ground: National Guard Difficulty ‘Places the Nation at Risk’

Ear to the Ground: Ellsberg Hits U.S. Media, Congress for Ignoring Nuclear Secrets Story

Ear to the Ground: The Price of America’s Patronage

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon: Maybe It Wasn’t Iran After All

Ear to the Ground: Iranian Report: Pentagon Video Was ‘Fabricated’

Reports: Is Bush Stopped in His Tracks on Iran?

Ear to the Ground: Circling the Wagons in Baghdad

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

Reports: Imaginary Weapons

Reports: Sane Officers Oppose Cheney

Reports: The Cancer From Within

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

Ear to the Ground: ‘From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld’

Reports: Cashing In on Terror

Truthdig Podcast: Imaginary Weapons

Reports: On the Eve of Destruction

Reports: Imagine Peace—A Ray of Light in Dark Times

Reports: Outsourcing Torture

Reports: Inside the Military-Industrial Complex

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

Ear to the Ground: ‘You Left Us With 50 Saddams’

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

Reports: Privatizing Murder

Reports: American Exceptionalism Meets Team Jesus

Reports: The Illusion of Progress in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Services Mark Sixth Anniversary of 9/11

Reports: Forget About the ‘Surge’

Ear to the Ground: Iraq by the Numbers with Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: China Denies Hacking Pentagon

Ear to the Ground: Troops Still Waiting for Armored Vehicles

Ear to the Ground: Army Throws Cash at Recruitment Problem

Ear to the Ground: The Case of the Missing Weapons

Ear to the Ground: Pat Tillman Murdered?

Ear to the Ground: Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Mostly Ignores Deserters

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

Reports: The Pentagon vs. Peak Oil

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Report: ‘Surge’ Only Shifts Violence

Ear to the Ground: White House Boots Joint Chiefs Chairman

Ear to the Ground: Joint Chiefs Chairman Has Trouble Counting

Ear to the Ground: The Next Cold War?

Ear to the Ground: Meet the War Czar

Reports: What Price Slaughter?

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: Is Gates on a Different Page?

Ear to the Ground: Survey: Many Soldiers Approve of Torture

Ear to the Ground: Congress Probes White House Over Tillman Affair

A/V Booth: Tillman Family, Jessica Lynch Challenge Pentagon Misinformation

Reports: World Shocked That Wolfowitz Has Girlfriend

Ear to the Ground: Congress to Investigate Tillman Cover-Up

A/V Booth: War Czar Gets a Makeover

Reports: Heck of a Job, Wolfie

A/V Booth: Shortchanging Veterans

Ear to the Ground: Stretched Military Extends Tours to Keep Surge Going

Ear to the Ground: Congress Will Investigate Misinformation on Tillman, Lynch

Ear to the Ground: Keeping Up With the Surge

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Legal Process Questioned After Hicks Trial

Reports: Pentagon Cowers Behind Wordplay

Ear to the Ground: Nine Officers Blamed in Tillman Cover-Up

Ear to the Ground: Lessons From Walter Reed

Ear to the Ground: More Confessions From Gitmo

Reports: Andrew Cockburn’s Rumsfeld Revelations

A/V Booth: Revisiting ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Ear to the Ground: More Fallout From Walter Reed Scandal

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Looks Beyond the Surge

Ear to the Ground: Escalating the Surge

Ear to the Ground: Revisiting the ‘Insurgent’ Generals

Cartoons: The War at Home

Ear to the Ground: 90 Percent of Guard Units ‘Not Ready’

Reports: Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran

Ear to the Ground: Blair Seeks U.S. Missile Site in Britain

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Will ‘Welcome’ Cuban Migrants to Gitmo

Ear to the Ground: Prewar Slide Show Exposes Iraq Fantasy

Reports: Before the Invasion, There Was Feith

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Accuses Iran of Supplying Militants

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Gives Cherry-Pickers a Slap on the Wrist

Ear to the Ground: Defense Secretary: Surge Not Our ‘Last Chance’

Ear to the Ground: Military Fed Up With Civilian Agencies

Reports: Bush Budget Delivers the Bacon

Ear to the Ground: Senators Seek to Deny U.S. Jet Parts to Iran

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Understates War’s Human Cost Among Soldiers

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Troops Authorized to Kill Iranians in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Foreign Adventures Force Drug War Cuts

Ear to the Ground: Military Spending Boggles the Mind

Ear to the Ground: Canadian Coins Signal Mysterious Espionage Plot

Ear to the Ground: Military Sacrifices Soldiers for Escalation

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s New Iraq Policy Taking Shape

Ear to the Ground: Bush Pushing Out U.S. Generals in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Caught in Contract Shuffle

Truthdig Podcast: Robert Gates, ‘Losing’ at War, Race and More

Ear to the Ground: Top U.S. General Will Step Down

Ear to the Ground: Military Wants Even More Money

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Tries Bullying Iran

Ear to the Ground: Bush Wants to Expand Army, Marines

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Violence at Record Highs in All Categories

Ear to the Ground: Troops Starting to Demand Withdrawal

Cartoons: Mr. Fish: Terrorist Detector

Ear to the Ground: The Military’s Iraq Gamble

Ear to the Ground: Rumsfeld Toughs It Out on 9/11 Link

Ear to the Ground: Study Group: Pentagon Conceals Iraq Violence

A/V Booth: Sy Hersh on Defense Secretary Gates

Reports: Dennis Kucinich’s Showdown With the Democratic Leadership

Ear to the Ground: Gates Confirmed by Senate

Ear to the Ground: Another Friendly Fire Coverup by the Army

Ear to the Ground: Gates Says U.S. Isn’t Winning War

Reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinch: No More Money for War on Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Can Dr. Evil Save the World?

Reports: Molly Ivins: Farewell, Rummy

Ear to the Ground: Military Newspapers: ‘Rumsfeld Must Go’

Ear to the Ground: Army Allegedly Reneges on Deal With GI Who Fled

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Cracking Down on Soldiers’ Blogs

Ear to the Ground: Boehner Praises Rumsfeld

A/V Booth: Tucker Carlson Defends Lies to Tillman Family

Ear to the Ground: General Acknowledges Failure of Baghdad Effort

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Illegally Shot Journalist

Ear to the Ground: High-Ranking General Slams Rumsfeld

Reports: Essential Reading From Sam Harris and Daniel Ellsberg

Reports: Daniel Ellsberg: Time to Drive Out the Bush Regime

Ear to the Ground: Administration Seeks to Protect ‘Interrogation’ Methods

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Report: Civilian Casualties Up by 50%

Ear to the Ground: Bombs Are Mileposts on Road to Civil War

Ear to the Ground: Military Prepping New ‘Pentagon Papers’

Ear to the Ground: 9/11 Commissioners Troubled by Pentagon, FAA and Giuliani

Ear to the Ground: Book: Sept. 11 Panel Doubted Officials

Ear to the Ground: Vanity Fair: Pentagon Likely ‘Covered Up’ 9/11 Response

Ear to the Ground: More Soldiers Uploading Shock and Awe

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Monitored Student Groups’ E-mail

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Shows Stunning Naivete in Video Game Flap

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Says Homosexuality No Longer a Disorder

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Still Classifies Homosexuality as a Disorder

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Releases 9/11 Pentagon Video

Ear to the Ground: Chalabi Reportedly Negotiating Between U.S. and Iran

Ear to the Ground: McClellan Still Ducking Queries on Weapons Trailers

Ear to the Ground: PETA Exposes Taser Tests on Pigs

Ear to the Ground: Fourth Top General Calls on Rumsfeld to Resign

Reports: The White House That Cried Wolf

Reports: Sign Me Up for the Pentagon Democracy Plan

Ear to the Ground: Colbert Gives Us the Word on the War

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Upholds Campus Military Recruiting

Ear to the Ground: Murtha Ain’t Buying What the Pentagon’s Selling

Ear to the Ground: No Iraq Trip for Rep. Who Opposed Bush on Ports

Ear to the Ground: Army Pays Nearly All Disputed Halliburton Charges

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Not ‘Standing Up’ Anytime Soon

Ear to the Ground: Navy Warned Pentagon on Torture

Ear to the Ground: Joint Chiefs Protest a Cartoon

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Finding Its Way Back to U.S.

Ear to the Ground: Army Stretched to the Breaking Point, Study Finds

Ear to the Ground: Gov’t Agency Paints Dire Picture of ‘Out-of-Control’ Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda

Ear to the Ground: Chalabi Zeros Out

Ear to the Ground: Propaganda? What Propaganda?

Ear to the Ground: Congress Should Probe U.S. Propaganda in Iraqi Press

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