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Reports: Silent State: Washington’s Campaign Against Whistle-Blowers

Reports: Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline

Ear to the Ground: Note to Iran: U.S. Orders Up a Super Bunker-Buster

Reports: Surviving the Hell of War, and Then Some

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Reports: Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment?

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

Cartoons: Pentagon Budget Cuts

Ear to the Ground: China Wary of Obama’s New Military Plan

Cartoons: Slimming Down the Military

Reports: For Once, Let’s Just Leave Iraq Alone

Ear to the Ground: Obama Signals a Shift in U.S. Military Strategy

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

Reports: Bradley Manning and the Fog of War

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Reports: Making Repression Our Business: The Pentagon’s Secret Training Missions in the Middle East

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Spends Millions Protecting Uzbekistan Dictator

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

Reports: ‘Super Committee’ Fails to Overcome Republican Dogma

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

Ear to the Ground: NATO Declares Libya Mission Officially Over

Ear to the Ground: Withdrawal Means Withdrawal

Reports: China Fears Are Misplaced

Ear to the Ground: Massachusetts Man Arrested in Plot to Bomb Pentagon, Capitol

Reports: Afghanistan Is Obama’s Gordian Knot

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

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

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

Reports: Bin Laden’s Unintended Legacy

Ear to the Ground: New Look at an Alleged U.S. Massacre in Iraq

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Reports: Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propaganda

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

Reports: Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System

Ear to the Ground: Israel’s Insatiable Zionism

Reports: Where’s the Syria Plan?

Ear to the Ground: The Cost of America’s Wars: Felt but Unknown

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: The Wrong Problem ‘Solved’

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Reports: A Retreat, Not a Rout

Ear to the Ground: ‘A Terrible Deal’

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

Reports: The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

Reports: Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences

Reports: Making a Progressive Case

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

Reports: Get Out of Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: 400,000 Brain-Injured Veterans Due Home From Afghanistan and Iraq

Reports: Why Does the War Go On?

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

Reports: Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

Reports: Budget Problems, America? Try Ending Your Many Wars

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

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

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

Reports: Bin Laden Mission Evokes More Questions Than Answers

Reports: The High Cost of Cheap War

Reports: ‘Oh Yeah, Prove It’

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

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus to Head CIA?

Reports: Lessons of Libya

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

Ear to the Ground: NATO Takes Over Part of Libya Campaign

Ear to the Ground: Legislators Question Constitutionality of Libya Attack

Cartoons: NPR Left Turn

Reports: What’s So Scary About NPR?

Reports: Western Intervention in Libya Should Not Fly

Reports: Boeing Boondoggle: Pork Can Fly

Reports: Obama’s Budget: Freezing the Poor

Reports: American-Israeli Policy Tested by Arab Uprisings

Reports: Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

Reports: Meat-Cleaver Budgeting

Ear to the Ground: Suicides Double Among National Guard, Reserves

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Aiming to Slash Military Spending

Ear to the Ground: We Really Do Spend More Than $1 Trillion on War

Arts and Culture: Is Congress More Progressive Than Hollywood?

Reports: A Far From Happy New Year

Reports: Speaking Ill of ‘the Best and the Brightest’

A/V Booth: Hedges, Stone and Moore on Hollywood’s Love of War

Reports: Foreign Policy Review Suggests a Losing Effort

Reports: Obama Scores a Victory, Along With Some Vindication

Reports: Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail

Cartoons: How the Senate Should Vote

Ear to the Ground: Sweden Says No Political Pressure Spurred Assange Arrest

Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal Headed for a Vote

Reports: Leaks Disclose Complicated U.S. Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Julian Assange Has a Backup Plan

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks: Not for Government Eyes

Reports: WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. ‘Diplomacy’

Ear to the Ground: Wiki-Damage Control Time for Clinton

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Gets What It Wants

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Calls 2014 Afghanistan Withdrawal ‘Aspirational’

Ear to the Ground: Senate May Consider Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal

Reports: Runaway Military: A Raw Deal at Half the Price

Reports: The Cowardice of America at War

Reports: Dishonoring Pat Tillman

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Survey: Dropping ‘DADT’ Wouldn’t Cause Wartime Strife

Reports: Obama’s Royal Passage to Asia

Ear to the Ground: Mystery Missile Has Pentagon Guessing (Update)

Ear to the Ground: Senate to Drop ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal

Reports: War Should Be an Election Issue

Ear to the Ground: How Much for That Senate Seat in the Window?

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Braces for Latest WikiLeaks Release

Ear to the Ground: Government Moves to Block ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Injunction

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Approves Openly Gay Recruits

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Brain’s Brain?

Reports: Bitter Setbacks for the Foes of ‘Don’t Ask’

Reports: The Imperial Defense of Pentagon Bloat

Ear to the Ground: Federal Judge Orders End to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Reports: Nuclear Armament Still Our Central Issue

Reports: Who Really Thinks We’ll Win in Afghanistan?

Ear to the Ground: Robert Gates Wants You ... and Your Children

Reports: Are Obama’s Hands Tied?

Ear to the Ground: American Soldiers Accused of Shooting Afghans for the Hell of It

Ear to the Ground: Declassified: Bush’s Iraq Scheming Began in 2001

Ear to the Ground: Woodward Says Obama Advisers Doubted Afghan Strategy

Ear to the Ground: No Openly Gay Soldiers Any Time Soon

A/V Booth: Lady Gaga Has a Message for John McCain-Arizona and Other Haters

Reports: A New Season in Military Fashions

Arts and Culture: Pentagon to Make Secrets Book an Instant Best-Seller

Reports: Airport X-Ray Scanners Hit the Road

Reports: The Tax-Cut Hand Grenade

Reports: Despite Celebration, the Iraq War Continues

Ear to the Ground: At Least 50 Killed in Iraq Bomb Attacks

Reports: Why Gen. Petraeus’ Assassination Inc. Threatens Us All

Reports: There’s Nothing Surgical About Cluster Bombs

Reports: The Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon, WikiLeaks Clash Again

Ear to the Ground: Despite New Cuts, Obama Will Spend More than Bush on Military

Reports: The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Clinton Nostalgia

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Clamps Down on Wikileaks

Reports: Leaking to Avert Disaster

Ear to the Ground: Man Faces Prison for Videotaping Cop

Reports: Afghanistan: The Pentagon’s Lost War

Reports: WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary

Ear to the Ground: $8.7 Billion More Disappears in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Prepares for Fallout From Wikileaks Revelations

Ear to the Ground: Pressure Is On to Tighten the Pentagon’s Waist

Reports: What Is the Point of All This Spying?

Ear to the Ground: Washington Post Delves Into ‘Top Secret America’

Reports: Reality and Reform for How the EU Keeps Its Peace

Reports: It’s Obama’s Empire Now

Reports: Show Us the Money

Reports: When Rolling Stone Calls the Shots, It’s Time to Negotiate

Ear to the Ground: Obama Lets McChrystal Keep All 4 Stars

Reports: The Chinese Aren’t Coming

Reports: The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die

Reports: After 41 Years, a Belated Victory for Butter

Arts and Culture: Into the Valley of Death Rode the ... 15?

Ear to the Ground: 11 Revelations From Rolling Stone’s McChrystal Profile

Reports: War for Resources: From Slander to Clarion Call

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon’s Spare Parts Problem

Reports: Israel’s Gift to Iran’s Hard-Liners

Reports: A Warning From Noam Chomsky on the Threat of Elites

Ear to the Ground: This Man May Become Our New National Intelligence Director

Reports: Obama’s New Security Strategy Looks Much Like the Old One

Ear to the Ground: Jim Webb to Military Gays: Not So Fast, Mary

Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Compromise Could Pass This Week

Reports: Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the ‘War Is Making You Poor Act’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Join Forces With South Korea for Seafaring Exercises

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Ask, Don’t Count: Pentagon Underreports Discharges

Reports: What Next for NATO?

Reports: After Religion Fizzles, We’re Stuck With Nietzsche

Reports: No One Cares

Reports: The New Secessionists

Ear to the Ground: Iranian Missiles No Match for U.S. Shield, Pentagon Says

Reports: No Place to Fight a War

Ear to the Ground: Deaths Among Contractors in Afghanistan Accelerating as They Outnumber Soldiers

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: The Wikileaks Squeal-stapo

Reports: Collateral Murder in Iraq

Reports: The Obscenity of War

Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Announcement Coming Thursday (Update: Video)

Reports: The Truth About American and Israeli Interests Comes Out

Ear to the Ground: NPR Strike Edition

Ear to the Ground: Mega Media Edition

Ear to the Ground: Spies Gone Wild: Afghanistan

Reports: The Difference Between a Terrorist and Someone Who Flies a Plane Into a Building

Reports: Is There a Mideast Solution?

Ear to the Ground: What Does Blackwater Have to Do?

Ear to the Ground: Three Bomb Blasts Kill 32 in Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Frees Troops to Poke, Tweet and Lip-Sync to Lady Gaga

Reports: U.S. Allies in Europe Begin to Pull Back

Reports: Cheney’s Dose of Reality

Ear to the Ground: Huge Majority Backs Gays in the Military

Reports: Budget Lies Aren’t Helping the Deficit

Reports: America’s Confused Approach to Afghanistan

A/V Booth: Best Documentary Nominees

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon May Not Wait for Congress on Gays in Military

Reports: A Memory of Howard

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Sending More Troops to Yemen

Ear to the Ground: Obama to Propose Spending Freeze

Ear to the Ground: A Closer Look at the Guantánamo ‘Suicides’

Reports: From Coup-Lite to Truth-Lite: 10 Ways the U.S. Fought Democracy in Honduras

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