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Reports: Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

Ear to the Ground: State Department to Downsize Massive Baghdad Embassy

Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

Reports: The Cancer in Occupy

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Game of Death

Ear to the Ground: The Internet Fights Back

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Spends Millions Protecting Uzbekistan Dictator

Ear to the Ground: ‘Go. Leave. You Can’t Be Here’

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Torture in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Reports: China Fears Are Misplaced

Reports: The Best Among Us

Reports: How to Save the United States and Israel From Themselves

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Manipulating the Mob

Reports: How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11

Reports: Homeland Security Office Creates ‘Intelligence Spam,’ Insiders Say

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Reports: The Election March of the Trolls

Reports: Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System

Reports: Assassination as Foreign Policy

Arts and Culture: God Bless Cantankerous Old Men

Reports: Why China Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank

Reports: The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

Reports: America’s Disappeared

Reports: Why Does the War Go On?

Reports: Declare Victory—and Leave

Reports: Reflections on Israel: From Idealism to Ethnic Cleansing

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

Reports: Libyan Intervention Exposes European Disunity

Reports: The Speech Obama Should Have Given to AIPAC

A/V Booth: Time for Peace Is Running Out, Obama Tells Israel Lobby

Reports: Turning the Camera on the Police

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

Ear to the Ground: Queen to Visit the One That Got Away

Ear to the Ground: SEALs, Grandma Obama Getting ‘Pumped Up’ Security

Reports: Obama’s Luke Skywalker Moment

Reports: Tough Enough

Reports: A Fork in the Road: Where the U.S. Goes From Here

Ear to the Ground: Airstrikes Alone Aren’t Enough in Eastern Libya

Ear to the Ground: 27 Killed in Latest Syrian Protest

Ear to the Ground: Saudis Play Into Radical islam’s Hands

Reports: This Is What Resistance Looks Like

Reports: What About Syria?

A/V Booth: Obama Addresses His Third Muslim War

Reports: The Sleeping Giants of Tiny Bahrain

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Reports: A Mission Wrapped in Confusion

Reports: Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night’s Journey Into Day

Reports: No Laws, No Secrets: The Anarchist Creed of Julian Assange

Ear to the Ground: Inconsistent Principles

Reports: People Power vs. Washington

Reports: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

Reports: How Not to Fight Terrorism

Reports: The American Inquisition of 2011

Reports: How the U.S. Should Respond to the New Arab World

Reports: Can Obama Be Luke Skywalker?

Reports: Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

Ear to the Ground: Minister Suspends Tunisia’s Ex-Ruling Party

Reports: The Devils We Know

Reports: How South Korea Handles Piracy

Reports: The Right Smears ElBaradei

Reports: American-Israeli Policy Tested by Arab Uprisings

Reports: What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt

Reports: Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

Ear to the Ground: No More Orange Alerts

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Condemns Tyranny While Torturing Bradley Manning

Reports: Without Obama, We Lose So Much More Than an Election

Reports: A Tale of Two Dictators

Reports: Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East

Reports: Healer in Chief

Reports: WikiLeaks Exposes the Danger of Pakistan’s Nukes

Reports: China’s Growing Military Might and American Rashness

Ear to the Ground: Where Did All the Spam Go?

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

Reports: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’

Reports: New Year’s Call for a Border Reboot

Reports: A Far From Happy New Year

Reports: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia

Ear to the Ground: Are You in the FBI’s Suspicious Activities Database?

Ear to the Ground: CIA Launches W.T.F.

Reports: Foreign Policy Review Suggests a Losing Effort

Reports: Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Suicide Attacks Kill 13

Reports: ‘Assangination’: From Character Assassination to the Real Thing

Reports: A Wiki Hornet’s Nest

Ear to the Ground: Indian Diplomat’s Turban + Airport Security = International Incident

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Police Force on Shaky Ground

Reports: Leaks Disclose Complicated U.S. Strategy

Reports: Leaks Suggest Iran Is Now Winning in the Middle East

Reports: Happy as a Hangman

Reports: U.S. Orders Diplomats to Stop Telling Truth

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks: Not for Government Eyes

Reports: Where Is Obama Going?

Ear to the Ground: Just the Fibs, Ma’am

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

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Gets What It Wants

Reports: Real Hope Is About Doing Something

Reports: Blaming Obama’s America First

Reports: Iran’s Best Friends on Capitol Hill

Ear to the Ground: Much Ado About Touching

Reports: A Childish Tantrum Over TSA Rules

Reports: Why Granny Gets Searched

Ear to the Ground: Dear Abusive Travelers, TSA Workers Are People, Too

Reports: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion

Cartoons: TSA Grandparents

Cartoons: Full-Body Scanners

Ear to the Ground: New York Doesn’t Heart Body Scanners

Reports: NATO Summit Unlikely to Answer the Most Important Questions

Reports: Kandahar: The Latest Casualty of an Invisible War

Reports: The Cowardice of America at War

Reports: Big Brother Is Watching, Friending, Following You Online

Reports: Obama’s Royal Passage to Asia

Reports: A Recipe for Fascism

Ear to the Ground: Explosions Bring Fresh Devastation to Baghdad

Reports: The World Is Safer Without a Republican House

Reports: No Final Victories

Reports: The World Liberal Opportunists Made

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

Reports: Looney, and That’s No Debate

Reports: The Imperial Defense of Pentagon Bloat

Reports: Nuclear Armament Still Our Central Issue

Ear to the Ground: State Department Issues Europe Alert

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Shows Security Contractors the Door

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

Reports: Hillary Clinton Celebrates Kissinger While White House Repeats His Mistakes

Reports: FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent

Reports: Retribution for a World Lost in Screens

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

Reports: Twisting Obama’s Words

Reports: Obama and Iraq: ‘Through a Glass, Darkly’

Ear to the Ground: Too Big to Fail, Except Online

Reports: A New Season in Military Fashions

Reports: One Day, You’ll Have a Chip in Your Rear

Reports: Why Barack Is Behind

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

Ear to the Ground: Court Dismisses Torture Flights Case

Reports: Airport X-Ray Scanners Hit the Road

Ear to the Ground: Bollywood Jesus

Reports: Despite Celebration, the Iraq War Continues

Reports: More Mao Than Thou: What the Hell Is Happening in Nepal?

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom Is Over’ (Full Video and Text)

Reports: The Ambiguity of War’s End

A/V Booth: ‘Rebranding’ U.S. Combat Troops in Iraq

Reports: The Billionaire Right-Winger

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

Ear to the Ground: TSA Massages Its Technique

Arts and Culture: Norman Podhoretz in Black and White

Reports: There’s Nothing Surgical About Cluster Bombs

Reports: On the Government’s Growing Obsession With Hollywood-Style Command Centers

Reports: Formalizing Israel’s Land Grab

Reports: Illegal Immigration Isn’t the Only Thing Infuriating Arizona Residents

Reports: Shifting War Strategy Smacks of Desperation

Reports: The No-Win War

Reports: Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn

Reports: Leaking to Avert Disaster

Reports: Afghanistan: The Pentagon’s Lost War

Reports: Quack Medicine on Taxes

Reports: WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary

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

Reports: What Is the Point of All This Spying?

Reports: Our Secret Leviathan

Reports: Obama’s Intel Nominee Doesn’t Get It

Reports: Deficit Doves

Ear to the Ground: Afghans Plan for Security Takeover By 2014

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Gives Big Aid Package to Pakistan

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

Ear to the Ground: Nixon Thought About Nuking North Korea

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Russia Set to Swap Spies

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

Reports: We Can’t Afford War

Reports: The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die

Ear to the Ground: Best Vacation Ever

Ear to the Ground: CIA Director Is a Downer When He Makes Sense

Ear to the Ground: Power to the Police at G-20

Reports: Leave the Nation-Building to Afghans

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

Ear to the Ground: Watching the World Cup in the West Bank

Reports: Gulf War Syndrome

Reports: Stealth Superpower: How Turkey Is Chasing China in Bid to Become the Next Big Thing

Ear to the Ground: Sarah Palin: Competent Manager

Reports: Newest National Security Strategy Is an Elaboration of the Old

Reports: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative

Reports: Russia Has Trouble Escaping the Past

Reports: Israel From 10,000 Feet

Reports: This Country Needs a Few Good Communists

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

Ear to the Ground: N. Korea Severs Ties, Orders Preparations for War

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

Reports: What We Learned From Times Square

Ear to the Ground: Britain Blocks Mossad Replacement Over Passport Theft

Reports: No One Cares

Ear to the Ground: Hotel Calls Bush ‘Poisoning’ a Stunt

Ear to the Ground: Palestinians Turn to Gandhi, Dr. King

Reports: The NATO Nuisance

Reports: What Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Conference Missed

Reports: What Are They Smoking in California?

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Nuclear Weapons

Ear to the Ground: 25 Dead in Baghdad Shooting

Reports: Democracy and Domestic Violence

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