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Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning.  Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve just about every costly toy-cum-boondoggle from the good old days when …

Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam. June 14, …

“Let Robots Do the Dying,” said Simon Ramo, the aerospace pioneer. The first “robots” that did their dying for us were clunky little tin cans with wings …

A smoggy morning exercise drill in China. (Photo: Anonymous friend of Farris) I wake up this morning to the sun slicing warm, golden slits through the barred …

(Image: McSweeney's Books) “Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons” Waldman, Ayelet and Robin Levi San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2011. …

When Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius this week that he believes Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and June, it was ostensibly …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) At a retreat last weekend, dozens of wealthy donors convened in a large golf resort in Indian Wells, Calif. for a four …

President Barack Obama delivers remarks to plant workers at the Chrysler Group Toledo Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday, June 3, 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New …

Demonstrators remove a barrier from the Interior Ministry building in Cairo, Feb. 2, 2012. Thousands of protesters rallied Thursday against the Egyptian military after at least 73 people were …

United States Park Police bearing riot gear and on horse back raided Occupy DC Saturday morning and throughout the day, removing tents that were deemed to be in violation …