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Ear to the Ground: U.K. Ambassador Details Rush to Iraq War

Reports: Obama’s Thankless Thanksgiving

Reports: Colbert Conservatives and Military Waste

Reports: Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’

Ear to the Ground: Report: Obama to Expand Afghan War by 50 Percent

Ear to the Ground: Google Goes to Iraq

Reports: Delay Worked for Kennedy

Reports: Books, Not Bombs

Reports: Refuse Allegiance to Coal

Reports: Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan

Arts and Culture: The Guantanamo Lawyers: Shipwrecked

Arts and Culture: Freedom’s Fight: Part II

Reports: Battlefield in the War of Ideas

Reports: Enough G-2 Talk Already

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

Reports: What Is So Patriotic About Hysteria?

Reports: Hungering for a True Thanksgiving

Reports: The Demilitarization of the White House

Cartoons: Peace Sign

Reports: The New State Solution

A/V Booth: ‘Modern Combat 3’—We Can Hardly Wait

Reports: Bring Them Home, Mr. President

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Cartoons: In a Hole

Reports: Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace

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

Reports: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount

Reports: A Disappointing Year With Obama

Reports: When a Time Bomb Is Ticking

Cartoons: General Erection

Ear to the Ground: Saddam Biography Makes a Splash in Baghdad

Reports: Afghanistan’s Sham Army

Ear to the Ground: Hezbollah, Fearing War, Digs In

Reports: Happy Birthday, Pat Tillman

Reports: We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

Reports: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: What Option for Afghan Women?

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

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

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Truthdig Podcast: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: Without an Opponent, Karzai Declared Winner

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

A/V Booth: Obama Will Deal With Karzai

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: When the Tough Should Get Going

Ear to the Ground: Tony Blair Isn’t Conservative Enough to Be President of Europe

Cartoons: Save the Wails

A/V Booth: One Step Closer to Mars

Reports: Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People

Reports: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

Reports: Can’t Split the Difference in Afghanistan

Cartoons: Seeing Red

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Ear to the Ground: Baghdad Shaken by Worst Attack in Two Years

Cartoons: Once and for All

Reports: The Country That Cries Wolf

Reports: Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Truthdig Podcast: Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Reports: Turkish Cooperation—and Coffee—in Short Supply for Israel

Cartoons: When You’re Smiling

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Gives In, Agrees to Runoff

Cartoons: Purple Finger

Cartoons: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Ear to the Ground: Russia Arrests Historian for Studying Russian History

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Reports: A Nobel for Defeating Cheneyism

Reports: Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country

Reports: In Search of Great Men

Cartoons: Prize for Hope [A Cartoon From Austria]

Reports: Why Do Conservatives Hate America?

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Goes to War

Ear to the Ground: A People’s History of Ironic Prizes

Reports: Prizing Peace on the Home Front

Cartoons: Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Cartoons: The Fight

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Tony Blair, President of Europe?

Reports: Gen. McChrystal’s Celebrity Weekend

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

Reports: Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

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

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Cartoons: 2 Against 1

Reports: In Europe, the Left Has Run Out of Gas

Ear to the Ground: Soldier of Conscience Survives Court-Martial, Goes Free

Reports: The War on Language

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Ear to the Ground: Veterans Still Waiting for GI Bill Money

Reports: A Puzzling, Dangerous U.S. Policy Comes to an End

Cartoons: Pre-Existing Petition

Cartoons: Feeding the Empire

Reports: It Came From Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Army Puts a Woman in Charge

Cartoons: Just for You

Cartoons: Following in Your Tank Tracks [A Cartoon From China]

Ear to the Ground: Yet Another Reason Why War in Afghanistan Is a Bad Idea

Reports: Why We Fight the Tire War With China

Reports: All U.S. Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own—and Obama Has His

Ear to the Ground: Meet Josef Stalin, ‘Competent Manager’

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Finds Israel War Crimes in Gaza

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sees Little Support for Troop Deployments

Cartoons: The Revelation

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

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

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Ear to the Ground: Getting a Read on Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Israel’s Holy Warriors

Cartoons: EPCEA Now

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Strike Kills 90

Reports: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

Reports: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

Cartoons: Good Old Days

Reports: Cheney Plays to His Crowd

Reports: Will Japan’s New Leader Maintain His Country’s Fealty to Washington?

Ear to the Ground: World War II: 70 Years and We’re Still Fighting

Reports: Why We Must Stay in Afghanistan

Reports: Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

Reports: The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

Ear to the Ground: Report: U.S. Envoy and Afghan President in Election Meltdown

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

Ear to the Ground: War Is Over! (If You Say So)

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Reports: Ted Kennedy’s Humanity

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Reports: We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 3

Reports: Obama’s Invisible Achievement

Arts and Culture: A Bomb in Every Issue

Reports: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Truthdig Podcast: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Cartoons: Obama War

Ear to the Ground: Putin’s Pecs and Political Roid Rage

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Can’t Stop Baghdad Bombs

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Reports: Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Surge Limited by ‘Dwell Time’

Cartoons: Woodstock

Ear to the Ground: New Afghan Law Castrates Women’s Rights

Reports: How Bad Things Might Have Been

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 2

Reports: Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side

Ear to the Ground: What Do Billie Jean King and Bob Dole’s Running Mate Have in Common?

Ear to the Ground: Contractor Waste of Tax Dollars Continues

Ear to the Ground: Russia to Strengthen Presence In Abkhazia

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 1

Reports: There’s a Solution in Afghanistan—but Not the Way We’re Headed

Cartoons: War Is

Ear to the Ground: Top General Denies Saying Taliban Is Winning

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

Reports: Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America’s Dirty Work

Reports: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

Cartoons: 40-Year Hangover

Reports: 35 Years After Nixon

Reports: Playing Politics With a Ghost

Ear to the Ground: Counterterrorism Chief Says Bullets Alone Won’t Do the Job

Reports: Truthdig Classic: The Terror America Wrought

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

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Founder ‘Implicated in Murder’

Cartoons: Returning Soldiers

Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure

Ear to the Ground: GI Bill Sends Vets Back to School

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on Socrates

Reports: It’s Time for the U.S. to Declare Victory and Go Home

Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus

Arts and Culture: Book Excerpt: ‘Empire of Illusion’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Set Gitmo Inmate Free in a Case Called an ‘Outrage’

Reports: ‘Colorful’ Leaders Could Learn From Boring Brown

Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban

Ear to the Ground: Russia: No Rebuilding of Georgia’s Military

Reports: Inside the Gates Arrest, Plus ‘Hurt Locker’ Review

Truthdig Podcast: Inside the Gates Arrest, Plus ‘Hurt Locker’ Review

Reports: U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

Reports: Take Politics Out of Health Care Reform

Reports: Obama Means Business About Two-State Solution

Cartoons: Strip Poker

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes Down Military Boondoggle

Reports: Support Iran Protesters Without Meddling

Ear to the Ground: Army to Add 22,000 Soldiers

Ear to the Ground: Extreme Makeover: Bagram Prison Edition

A/V Booth: Taliban Releases Video of U.S. Captive

Cartoons: The Nightmare

Reports: War Without Purpose

Reports: Opinions Walter Cronkite Never Aired

Ear to the Ground: A Next Step in Mexico’s Drug War

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Reports: The Man in the Mirror

Cartoons: War and Peace

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