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Reports: The Crushing Legacy of Bush and Cheney

Reports: We ‘Support’ the Troops by Burdening Them More

Ear to the Ground: The Audacity of Obama’s Hopeful Exit Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Catch Up on the News With Larry’s List: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

Reports: Colbert Conservatives and Military Waste

Reports: Delay Worked for Kennedy

Reports: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

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

Reports: Bring Them Home, Mr. President

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

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

Reports: When a Time Bomb Is Ticking

Ear to the Ground: More Money for War, Through the Back Door

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

Reports: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

Reports: Can’t Split the Difference in Afghanistan

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Ear to the Ground: American Scientist Charged With Espionage

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Getting Speedy Military Aid Delivery From Pentagon

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

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

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Puts a Hold on Troop Increase Request

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

Reports: The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

Ear to the Ground: Freed Afghan Says He Was Sent to Gitmo at 12

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Ear to the Ground: House Grounds Fancy Plane Plan

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

Reports: Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo 2

Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

Reports: Take Politics Out of Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes Down Military Boondoggle

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Ear to the Ground: More Ex-Detainees Allege Abuse

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

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

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Ear to the Ground: An Army of Fun

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

Ear to the Ground: Airstrike Rules Broken, Pentagon Finds

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Cartoons: The Horror

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Denies That Prison Photos Depict Rape

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

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

Reports: The Disease of Permanent War

Reports: Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Apple Goes to War

Ear to the Ground: Backlash Over Defense Budget Cuts Begins

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

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

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

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Ear to the Ground: Military Rapes Jump 9 Percent

Ear to the Ground: Secret Bush Memos Gave President Even More Power

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon to Revoke Coffin-Filming Ban

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Reports: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

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

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Reports: A Team of Zombies

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Ear to the Ground: Army Suicide Rate Highest in Decades

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo Judge, Obama at Odds Over Trial Delay

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Reports: Civilian Courts Can Deal With Terrorism Cases

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

Ear to the Ground: Back to the Future: U.S. to Arm Afghan Militias

Reports: Senate Panel’s Report on U.S. Torture Abuse

Ear to the Ground: For Pentagon, More Wal-Mart, Less Gucci

Reports: Keeping Track of Change

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Ear to the Ground: Gates to Keep the Reins of War

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

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Ear to the Ground: Gates Might Stick Around

Reports: How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Ear to the Ground: Military Spending ‘Not Sustainable’

Reports: Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama

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

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

Reports: The Bailout vs. the Defense Budget

Reports: Back in the USSR

Ear to the Ground: $40 Billion Tanker Contract Grounded

Reports: The Cost of Saakashvili’s Folly

Reports: A War of Self-Destruction

Ear to the Ground: The Return of Rumsfeld

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Keeps Bombing Weddings

A/V Booth: U.S. Generals in Afghanistan Ask for More Armored Vehicles

Reports: Iran Shows Its Cards

Reports: Taiwan Declares Peace on China

Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev Scolds Obama and McCain

Arts and Culture: Pentagon Looking to Help Shape War Films

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Mulls Troop Pullout

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

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