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Ear to the Ground: Homeland Security Doesn’t Get British Humor

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Chris Hedges

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: More Killed in Syria as Country Buries Dead

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Settler ‘Terrorists’ Put a ‘Price Tag’ on Eviction

Reports: Fewer and Fewer Reasons for the West to Fixate on the Mideast

Reports: Marginalizing Ron Paul

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Make Killer Flu Virus Even Deadlier

Ear to the Ground: Washington Funds Militarization of Police Departments

Reports: On to the Next ‘Bubble Fantasy’

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch Says Obama Will Go Down in History—and Not in a Good Way

Ear to the Ground: Obama Drops Veto Threat, House Passes Defense Bill

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Reports: China Profits From U.S.-Pakistan Shipwreck

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes to Keep Detention Clauses in Military Bill

A/V Booth: Defense Bill Proposes Indefinite Detention for American Citizens

Ear to the Ground: Why Are Police Treating Protesters Like Terrorists?

Reports: How Libya Plays Into NATO’s Identity Crisis

Cartoons: American Taliban

Reports: At a Loss for a World View

Ear to the Ground: Basque Separatists Say Armed Conflict Is Over

Reports: Government by Death Panel

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Denies Designs on Biden’s Throne

Reports: The Chinafication of America

Reports: Suleiman’s Travels

Ear to the Ground: Adm. Mullen Says Pakistan Intelligence Supports Bombers

Cartoons: Give Us This Day Our Daily Dead

Cartoons: Towers

Cartoons: Statue of Heroism

Reports: 10 Years Later, It’s Time to ‘Broaden the Context’

Reports: Recognize That It’s Over

Reports: Sept. 11 and ‘A New Birth of Freedom’

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

Reports: Bin Laden’s Unintended Legacy

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

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Truthdig Podcast: The FBI’s Terrorism Factory

A/V Booth: The FBI’s Terrorism Factory

Ear to the Ground: Is the FBI Catching Terrorists, or Coaching Them?

Reports: Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System

Reports: Assassination as Foreign Policy

Reports: The Bizarro FDR

Cartoons: Terror of the Crazy Brain

Ear to the Ground: The Difference Between Hacking and Attacking

Ear to the Ground: Right-Wing Press Ignores Terrorist Attack on Clinic

Reports: Fundamentalism Kills

Reports: The Influence Industry of Rage

Ear to the Ground: Bin Laden Was Planning 9/11 Anniversary Attack

Ear to the Ground: Murdochs Agree to Testify in U.K., FBI Launches Probe

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Assassination Machine

Reports: Over There With George M. Cohan

Ear to the Ground: Somali Terror Suspect to Be Tried on U.S. Soil

Reports: WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War

Reports: Our Robotic Assassins

Reports: ‘Food Terrorism’ Next Door to the Magic Kingdom

Ear to the Ground: Ayatollah Turns the Terrorism Tables

Ear to the Ground: Bin Laden Thought About Re-Branding Al-Qaida

Reports: Why Does the War Go On?

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

Ear to the Ground: Meet the New Face of Al-Qaida

Ear to the Ground: FBI Makes It Easier to Pry

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

Reports: Declare Victory—and Leave

Ear to the Ground: MI6: Make Cupcakes, Not Bombs

Ear to the Ground: Four More Years of Wiretapping Fun

Reports: Whose War on Terror?

A/V Booth: Queen Comes Close to Apology in Ireland

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

Cartoons: US-Pak Alliance

Cartoons: Forgiveness

Reports: The Death of the bin Laden Myth

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

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wants FBI Chief to Stick Around

Cartoons: Osama at Sea

Cartoons: Expert Marksman

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

Ear to the Ground: Muslims Say They Were Booted Off Plane

Ear to the Ground: Bin Laden Holed Up in Pakistan Since 2003?

Reports: Tough Enough

Cartoons: Spite Makes Right

Cartoons: International Terrorism

Ear to the Ground: On Revenge and Jubilation

A/V Booth: Obama Pays Respects at Ground Zero

Cartoons: Picture This

Cartoons: BS

Cartoons: Remember When

Reports: Pakistan and America: The Bad Marriage

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

Ear to the Ground: Be Alert, Department of Homeland Security Says

A/V Booth: President Obama on the Death of Osama bin Laden

Ear to the Ground: Holder Says WikiLeaks’ Gitmo Documents Won’t Affect Prosecutions

Cartoons: Endless Afghans

Ear to the Ground: Homeland Security to Retire Color-Coded Terror Alert System

Arts and Culture: Cuba From the Other Side

Ear to the Ground: KSM Headed to Kangaroo Kourt

Ear to the Ground: What Does Moussa Koussa Know?

A/V Booth: Truthdig Radio: Helen Caldicott, Mr. Fish on Ice

Truthdig Podcast: Truthdig Radio: Helen Caldicott and the Terror Economy

Arts and Culture: Lupe Fiasco Calls Out Obama, Among Others

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Reports: The Libyan Question: Now What?

Reports: The ’80s Origins of Today’s Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Reports: How Not to Fight Terrorism

Reports: Still in the Dark About 9/11

Reports: The American Inquisition of 2011

Ear to the Ground: Obama Punts on Guantanamo

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

Reports: Give Us a Break, Henry

Reports: Self-Obsessed Washington’s Confused Response to Egypt

Reports: With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

Reports: The Devils We Know

Reports: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Democracy?

Reports: Healer in Chief

Reports: WikiLeaks Exposes the Danger of Pakistan’s Nukes

Ear to the Ground: Gabrielle Giffords’ Favorite Quote

Ear to the Ground: When Conservatives Celebrate Terrorists

Reports: A Far From Happy New Year

Ear to the Ground: Parcel Bombs Rattle Rome

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

A/V Booth: An Afghan War Refresher With President Obama

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

Reports: Pat-Downs Hit Middle America Where It Counts

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Bad-Touched by TSA

Reports: The Cowardice of America at War

Ear to the Ground: U.K. General: Al-Qaida Can Never Be Defeated

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

Ear to the Ground: British Deny Bush’s Claim That Torture Paid Off

Ear to the Ground: No Punishment Over Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes

Ear to the Ground: Bomb Attacks Shake Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Nabbed Package Bomb Had Merkel’s Name on It

Reports: The World Is Safer Without a Republican House

Ear to the Ground: Bombers in Greece Target France’s Sarkozy

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘Two Suspicious Packages’ Caught En Route to U.S.

Ear to the Ground: Bin Laden Pops Up With Warning to France

Reports: The High Price of Patriotism

Reports: Too Much Fox-Flavored Kool-Aid for Juan Williams

Reports: Wars Will Cease When We Refuse to Fight

Cartoons: Love Thy Neighbor

Ear to the Ground: Computer Nerd Barbie

Ear to the Ground: Life Sentence for Times Square Bomb Plotter

Ear to the Ground: State Department Issues Europe Alert

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

Reports: FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent

Ear to the Ground: FBI Raids Homes of Anti-War Protesters

Ear to the Ground: Colombian Rebel Leader Killed

Ear to the Ground: Neuroscientist Gets 86 Years for a ‘Freak Out’

Reports: Twisting Obama’s Words

Reports: Wisdom of the Terrorist’s Son

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on Tensions Between the West and the Muslim World

Reports: Sept. 11 Happened to Us All

Reports: Sept. 11: A Day Without War

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

A/V Booth: Keeping the United States From Assassinating Its Citizens

Reports: Right-Wing Wusses

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: Jefferson Would be Ashamed of Republican Mosque Panderers

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Demurs on Afghan Pullout

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan in Review

Reports: The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears

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

Reports: Shifting War Strategy Smacks of Desperation

Ear to the Ground: Fundamentalists and Extremists Go to the Rescue in Pakistan

Reports: The No-Win War

Reports: Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn

Ear to the Ground: Battle Over Ground Zero Intensifies

Arts and Culture: ‘Countdown to Zero’—or Apocalypse, Whichever Comes First

Reports: Afghanistan: The Pentagon’s Lost War

Reports: Our Secret Leviathan

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

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

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

Ear to the Ground: Norway Gets a Taste of Terror

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Granted Access to European Bank Info

Ear to the Ground: Terror Suspect Wins Round in Court

Ear to the Ground: Cutbacks Clip U.K. Anti-Terror Effort

Reports: When the ‘Right War’ Goes Wrong

Reports: 5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced—Think That Bothers War Boosters?

Ear to the Ground: Big Apple? More Like Big Brother

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

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

Reports: Live Chat: ‘Treat Palestinians Like Jews’

Ear to the Ground: Ralph Nader on Prop. 14

Reports: This Country Needs a Few Good Communists

A/V Booth: N.Y. Board Gives Go-Ahead to Mosque Near Ground Zero

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

Reports: Laying Bare the Myth of ‘The Left’

Ear to the Ground: Adm. Blair Out as Intelligence Director

Reports: Blowback: Why They Try to Bomb Us

Ear to the Ground: Holder: Money Trail Led to New Arrests in Times Square Bomb Case

Ear to the Ground: The Dictatorship That Cried Wolf

Ear to the Ground: U.S.: Pakistan Taliban Behind NYC Plot

Ear to the Ground: Terrorists, Turn In Your Citizenship Cards

Reports: Our First Line of Defense

Reports: Will We Keep Hating the Government?

Reports: What We Learned From Times Square

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