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Reports: Occupy 2012

Reports: Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent

Cartoons: Out of Vietnam

Reports: Remembering Vietnam War Foe Carl Oglesby

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Assassination Machine

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Arts and Culture: Mortal Sins of Omission

Ear to the Ground: 100,000 March in Madison

Reports: In the Presence of My Enemy: A Reflection on War and Forgiveness

Reports: What It Was Like to Be John F. Kennedy

Reports: Raise Your Voices, Protest, Stop These Wars

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

A/V Booth: ‘Hope Is Action’: Hedges and Ellsberg Arrested at White House Protest

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Envoy Holbrooke Dies

Reports: The Company We Keep

Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev to NATO: You Can’t Win in Afghanistan

Reports: The High Price of Patriotism

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

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: U.S. Troops Leave Iraq; ‘Mosque’-troversy

A/V Booth: The Longest War in U.S. History

Reports: Political Preschool

Ear to the Ground: Inching Toward a Ban on Land Mines

Reports: As Iraq Threatens to Come Apart, U.S. Problems in Afghanistan Mount

Ear to the Ground: Baptist Do-Gooders in Trouble in Haiti

Reports: Zinn Is Dead—Long Live ‘Zinn’

Ear to the Ground: Here’s Something for Neocons to Flip Out About

Reports: U.S. Contemplates More of the Scarcely Believable in ‘Af-Pak’

Reports: Obama’s Surge in Afghanistan Hardly a Surprise

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

Reports: Delay Worked for Kennedy

Reports: America Performs Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator

Reports: Sen. George McGovern on the Presidency From Lincoln to Obama

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

Cartoons: Four-Letter Word

Cartoons: Jumping the Gun

Arts and Culture: ‘A Bomb in Every Issue’

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

Reports: Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

Reports: Exorcising America’s Diplomatic Demons

Ear to the Ground: CBS: 2, Rather: 0

Cartoons: Pre-Existing Petition

Reports: A 9/11 Reality Check

Reports: Obama’s Meaningless War

Reports: Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War

Arts and Culture: A Bomb in Every Issue

Reports: Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan

Arts and Culture: Walter Cronkite, TV’s First Anchor, Dies at 92

Reports: What Will History Make of Colin Powell?

Reports: McNamara’s Evil Lives On

Cartoons: Robert McNamara

Ear to the Ground: New Nixon Files and Tapes Made Public

Ear to the Ground: America’s Bombs Are Still Exploding in Laos

Reports: Cambodia Déjà Vu: the Invasion of Pakistan

Reports: Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Reports: Pete Seeger Carries Us On

Ear to the Ground: Obama Zeroes In on Afghanistan

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Geithner’s Grand Plan; Obama’s Afghan Quagmire

Arts and Culture: Jacob Heilbrunn on Alger Hiss

Reports: A Bad Fix Would Be No Fix

Reports: Oliver Stone: The Director’s Cut

Reports: U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

Reports: Obama Must Halt America’s Moral Decline

Ear to the Ground: Holder States the Obvious

Arts and Culture: Christian Appy on ‘Mekong Diaries’

Bazaar: Mekong Diaries

Reports: Voices of Resistance Sing On

Reports: What Nixon Admitted (and Cheney Won’t)

Reports: The Road Out of Iraq Begins in Vietnam

Reports: From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

Arts and Culture: James Blight on McGeorge Bundy

Reports: Obama Embraces the Military

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Ear to the Ground: Cluster Bomb Treaty Steps Forward

Ear to the Ground: Nixon Tapes Confirm Sour Personality

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

Reports: From LBJ to BHO

Ear to the Ground: FBI Tracked Halberstam for Over Two Decades

Reports: Organizer in Chief

Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

Reports: Virtual JFK: The 44th President’s Foreign Policy Challenge

Reports: Honor Won and Lost

Reports: Nowhere for McCain to Go

Reports: Investigating John McCain’s Tragedy at Sea

Arts and Culture: Actor and Philanthropist Paul Newman Dies at 83

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Arts and Culture: Robert Christgau on America’s Secret Fundamentalists

A/V Booth: Mr. McCain Goes to Washington

Ear to the Ground: Note to McCain: Ease Off on the POW Talk

Arts and Culture: James Blight on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Reports: McCain’s Warped Worldview

Reports: India’s Role in the Afghan Drama

Reports: Refighting the Vietnam War

A/V Booth: John McCain: A Fighter, Not a Summer-of-Love-r

Arts and Culture: Pentagon Looking to Help Shape War Films

Reports: Fake Outrage Over Clark Comments

Ear to the Ground: McCain, Obama Rebuke Clark

Reports: The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves

Arts and Culture: Richard Flacks on Tom Hayden

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s VP Curveball

Ear to the Ground: The Other Mrs. McCain

Reports: Indefensible Spending

Reports: Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be Confronted

Ear to the Ground: Daniel Berrigan: Forty Years After Catonsville

Reports: Destroying a Village of Pedophilia

Reports: Whose Elitism Is Worse?

Reports: The $3-Trillion War

Reports: Semantics Can’t Mask Bush’s Chicanery

Reports: Forty Years On

Reports: Remembering the Real Martin Luther King

Reports: Where Do We Go From Here?

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

Reports: Nixon?s Heir

Reports: Body of War

Reports: On His Own Terms

Reports: Winter Soldier Marches Again

Reports: The Only Lesson We Ever Learn Is That We Never Learn

Reports: Why George Bush Loves John McCain

Arts and Culture: Warren Cohen on the Rise (and Fall) of the Neocons

Reports: Dems Dropping the Ball on Iraq Debate

Reports: What John McCain Should Know

Reports: McCain’s Political Quagmire

Reports: Castro and the Colossus

Reports: Unconventional Wisdom

Arts and Culture: Carol Brightman on the 1960s

Ear to the Ground: Kerry Takes Swift Boat Vets’ $1M Bet

Ear to the Ground: $2.4 Trillion to Keep the Wars Going

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on America’s Forgotten War

Reports: War Costs Spiral Out of Control

Reports: Inside the Military-Industrial Complex

A/V Booth: Bill Clinton to the Rescue

Ear to the Ground: Iran to U.S.: I’m Rubber, You’re Glue

Reports: Rather Bites the Hand That Stabbed Him

Reports: The General Lies

Ear to the Ground: Ohio’s Rep. Paul Gillmor Dead at 68

Reports: Remember Vietnam

Ear to the Ground: Oliver Stone Preps My Lai Movie

A/V Booth: Gravel’s Poignant Mantra: ‘Young Men and Women ... Dying’

Cartoons: Quagmire Quiz

Reports: Iraq Is the New Korea

Reports: Memorializing the Deadly Myth of John Wayne

Ear to the Ground: A Serving U.S. Officer:  Iraq Is Another Vietnam

Reports: Keeping Our Demons at Bay

Cartoons: Mr. Fish: Honor Redefined

Ear to the Ground: A Chance to Retrieve History

Reports: Martin Luther King Jr.: ‘A Society Gone Mad on War’

A/V Booth: Podcast: Escalating the War, Schwarzenegger and More

Truthdig Podcast: Robert Scheer and James Harris on Escalating the War, Schwarzenegger and More

Reports: Molly Ivins: Stand Up Against the ‘Surge’

A/V Booth: The Johnson-Nixon-Bush Continuum

A/V Booth: CNN’s Cafferty Deflates Bush Rhetoric

Ear to the Ground: Draft Equipment to Be Tested

Ear to the Ground: Gerald Ford Dead at 93

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

Reports: Was Nixon Worse?

Truthdig Podcast: Videocast: Gore Vidal on the Kennedy Assassination, Castro and More

Reports: Joe Conason: Bush’s Strange Vietnam Visit

Reports: Robert Scheer: In the Shadow of Ho Chi Minh

Reports: Robert Scheer: Turning the Corner Into Madness

Reports: Molly Ivins: Iraq Follows Vietnam Model

Reports: Ron Kovic: Breaking the Silence of the Night

Reports: The Unquiet Frenchman

A/V Booth: Plus ça Change…

Reports: Marie Cocco: The Hippie Factor

Ear to the Ground: Young Vietnamese Doctor’s Diary Becomes Bestseller

Reports: Tom Hayden: Iraq—Beyond the Horizon, the Storm

Ear to the Ground: Iraq War Spending Doubles Since Invasion

Ear to the Ground: Kerry Calls for Iraq Pullout Deadline

Reports: The Progress Myth in Iraq

Reports: Our Amnesiac Torture Debate

Ear to the Ground: Former Top Mideast Analyst: Intel Misused

Ear to the Ground: Withdrawal From Iraq? Not With All These Shiny U.S. Bases…

Truthdig Podcast: In Pictures: Ron Kovic Today

Cartoons: Mr. Fish - Liberal Phil

Ear to the Ground: Cronkite on Iraq: “Get Out Now”

Uncovered: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

Ear to the Ground: Alito, a Youthful Enemy of the Warren Court

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