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Don’t Buy the Spin: How Cutting the Pentagon’s Budget Could Boost the Economy
Should the enormous US military budget be cut? Many who would like to protect the military from the budget knife raise economic arguments to make their case: Won’t cutting …
The Spectacle of Military Commissions for Alleged 9/11 Masterminds
After almost ten years of detention at CIA dark sites and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators were brought before a military commission to …
Preying on the Poor: How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker …
Pilots as Lab Rats: The Reprehensible Risk-Taking on the F-22 Raptor
In May of 2011, the Air Force took the unusual and radical step of grounding their entire F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft fleet because it appeared that something was wrong …
Mobilizing Military Moms Against NATO
In a 2007 military photograph taken just before his first deployment to Iraq, 20-year-old Army infantryman Derek Kirkland is staring solemnly at the camera from behind a desert camouflage …
Occupy Women: Will Feminism’s Fourth Wave Be a Swell or a Ripple?
What challenges will a fourth wave of feminism face? What lessons have been learned?
Abu Ghraib and Hiroshima by PowerPoint and Lectern
A grossly exaggerated and noxious brand of faux-patriotism has had the United States in its grips since at least September 11, 2001. The nefarious engine of this jingoistic phenomenon …
Argentina and the Magic Soybean: the Commodity Export Boom That Wasn’t
Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports. One of the great myths about the Argentine economy that is repeated nearly …
House Moots Afghan Exit, Iran War, Military Budget and “Signature” Drone Strikes
On Wednesday and Thursday, the House is expected to take up consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act. Amendments will be offered to expedite military withdrawal from Afghanistan, to …
The Zionist Scenario: Now and in the Future – an Analysis
Part I – The Death Knell of the Two State Solution Over the past month Palestinian leaders have begun to publicly acknowledge that continuing actions by the Israeli government, …