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Reports: Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

Reports: Embracing ‘Enough’

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

Ear to the Ground: Iran and Israel: Only Half the Story

Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

Reports: Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline

A/V Booth: ‘Ex-Sniper’s’ Story Misses the Mark

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

Reports: Mitch Daniels: Bombast From the Past

Reports: Is a Nuclear Iran Really to Be Feared?

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Reports: Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

Cartoons: US and Them

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

Ear to the Ground: Accused Serial Killer Returned From Iraq ‘Totally Changed’

Cartoons: The Obscenity

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Reports: Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

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

Cartoons: Pentagon Budget Cuts

Ear to the Ground: Obama Avoids Alignment With Israel Against Iran

Reports: 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

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

Reports: Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default

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

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges Lays It All Out

Cartoons: 2011

Reports: Could Ron Paul Be the Next Ralph Nader?

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Targets Obama

Cartoons: New Year in the Trenches

Reports: Marginalizing Ron Paul

Cartoons: Iraq Wound

Ear to the Ground: China Wins Afghanistan Oil Contract

Cartoons: Secret Santa

Reports: On to the Next ‘Bubble Fantasy’

Reports: Bradley Manning and the Fog of War

Reports: History Tells Us Not to Dismiss a Democratic Challenge to Obama

Reports: Dennis Kucinich on the NDAA and ‘War Without End’

Cartoons: Rugs

Reports: Christopher Hitchens: Reason in Revolt

Ear to the Ground: Rest in Peace, Comrade

Cartoons: Speech at Fort Bragg

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: America the Battlefield

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Reports: Obama Abroad: Democratic Realism

Reports: War With Iran? School Prayer? Just More Republican Campaign Promises

A/V Booth: New Documentary Confronts Military Rape

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

Cartoons: Dual Trigger Double Barrel

Ear to the Ground: Dan Rather Says ‘Big Money Owns Everything … Including the News’

Reports: Thought Crime in Washington

Cartoons: Scissors

Reports: Realism and Compassion: Unacceptable in Today’s GOP

Ear to the Ground: How China Has Benefited From America’s Hostility to Iran

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

Reports: The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary

Reports: The GOP’s Message Problem

Cartoons: Remembrance

Reports: Why Income Inequality Suddenly Matters

A/V Booth: Robert Reich and Robert Scheer at Occupy L.A. Teach-In

Reports: How Libya Plays Into NATO’s Identity Crisis

Reports: The War Against the Poor

Reports: Finding Freedom in Handcuffs

Truthdig Podcast: Manarchy!

A/V Booth: Manarchy!

Reports: Call of Duty: Veterans Join the 99 Percent

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

Cartoons: Mission ... Accomplished

Reports: The Worst Generation

Reports: The Vatican Meets the Occupiers

Reports: How the Rich Subverted the Legal System

Reports: The Arab Spring Gets Messy, and Even Messier for the U.S.

A/V Booth: President Obama: ‘America’s War in Iraq Will Be Over’ by Year-End

Reports: The Choice Between Democracy and Autocracy

Reports: At a Loss for a World View

Cartoons: What a Stinker

Reports: Turkish Kurds Surrounded by War and Promises

Reports: The Arc of the Moral Universe, From Memphis to Wall Street

Reports: A Movement Too Big to Fail

Reports: The Tax Hikes That Republicans Love

Reports: Government by Death Panel

Reports: If a Republican Were President

Reports: China Fears Are Misplaced

A/V Booth: What a 6-Year-Old Iraqi Girl Would Ask the American Who Shot Her in the Head

Cartoons: Out of Vietnam

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: A Poignant Celebration

Reports: Suleiman’s Travels

Reports: Afghanistan Is Obama’s Gordian Knot

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

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

Reports: No End in Sight for a Family’s Agonizing Guessing Game

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Reports: The Fight-Back Plan

Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Is Dead. Now What?

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

Reports: Where Are the Compassionate Conservatives?

Arts and Culture: Who’s Your Mummy?

A/V Booth: Women and PTSD

Cartoons: Give Us This Day Our Daily Dead

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

Ear to the Ground: No, Thank You—Don’t Come Again

Reports: A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe

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

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

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Tensions Mount in Revolution Central

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

Ear to the Ground: Chomsky 10 Years After 9/11

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Troops Begin Departure From Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Nurses vs. Wall Street

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

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

Reports: Bin Laden’s Unintended Legacy

Ear to the Ground: ‘The Price of 9/11’

Ear to the Ground: The Problem With the Republicans

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Arts and Culture: June Gloom With Lewis Lapham

Reports: Always Some Bushie There to Remind Us

Reports: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

Reports: Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propaganda

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Wasted $30 Billion on Contractors

Reports: Prosecuting War Crimes? Be Sure to Read the Fine Print

Ear to the Ground: Reports of War Crimes as Tripoli Fighting Continues

Reports: Obama Can’t Win for Winning

Reports: Victory in Tripoli: They Did It

Ear to the Ground: ‘Captured’ Gadhafi Son Surprises Reporters

Reports: Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System

Reports: Where’s the Syria Plan?

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

Reports: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas

Reports: Assassination as Foreign Policy

Reports: President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

Reports: Hello, Washington? Is Anyone Listening?

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Ramadan, Revolution and Rumors

Reports: The Man Who Doesn’t Want to Be President

Reports: The Bizarro FDR

Reports: The Recovery Is Dead, Long Live the Recovery

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Arts and Culture: God Bless Cantankerous Old Men

Ear to the Ground: American Minorities Have Been Here Before

Cartoons: U.S. Dollars for Taliban

Reports: War Is a Racket

Reports: The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

Reports: America’s Disappeared

A/V Booth: The Christian Conspiracy to Take Over the Military

Truthdig Podcast: The Christian Conspiracy to Take Over the Military

A/V Booth: Israel Is Likely to Attack Iran, CIA Veteran Robert Baer Warns

Reports: Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Ear to the Ground: Forget Congress, Alan Grayson Should Pull a Palin

Ear to the Ground: New Defense Secretary Spreads Bush’s Lies About Iraq

Reports: Over There With George M. Cohan

Reports: WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Cartoons: Rocket’s Red Glare

Reports: Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President

Ear to the Ground: The Drawdown That Wasn’t

Reports: $4 Trillion for War—and Counting

Reports: Our Robotic Assassins

Reports: Get Out of Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Monthly U.S. Troop Deaths in Iraq Hit a Two-Year High

Reports: Obama and the Agony of Prudence

Reports: The Economics of a ‘Rabbit Cage’

Cartoons: War and Peace

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

Arts and Culture: ‘Shade It Black’: The Bodybaggers of Iraq

Reports: Why Does the War Go On?

Cartoons: Trapped in Afghanistan

Reports: Bad News for a Country Tired of War

Ear to the Ground: Obama Expects Three More Years of War

Ear to the Ground: Jon Stewart Fails PolitiFact’s ‘Truth-O-Meter’

Reports: Obama Is Wrong on War Powers

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

Reports: Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

Reports: Turkey in Position to Lead Region Out of Tumultuous Century

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

Reports: Declare Victory—and Leave

A/V Booth: On Manning, Fracking and Walker’s Chickens

Truthdig Podcast: On Manning, Fracking and Walker’s Chickens

Reports: Reflections on Israel: From Idealism to Ethnic Cleansing

Reports: On His Way Out, Gates Talks About ‘Access’ to Asia

A/V Booth: ‘Three Myths’ of Israeli History

Ear to the Ground: ‘Leave the Shooters Until Last,’ Gates Urges

Ear to the Ground: Obama Nearly Triples Bagram Detainee Population

Cartoons: Camouflage

Reports: Playing With Default

Cartoons: Booming Market

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

Reports: War Is the New Normal

Reports: The New American Segregation: The Military

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

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

Cartoons: Memorial Day 2011

Arts and Culture: Exclusive: Ry Cooder’s ‘No Banker Left Behind’

Cartoons: Bring the Troops Noam

Reports: Libyan Intervention Exposes European Disunity

Reports: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West

Reports: The Speech Obama Should Have Given to AIPAC

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