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(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Charles Smith is a retired Army civilian employee hero, who went up against the Iraq contractor KBR on behalf of the troops …

It’s time, once and for all, to clear up the confusion about Plan B on progressive message boards, Facebook pages, forums and comment threads. Tweet this: Plan B doesn’t …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In his third State of the Union address, President Obama opened and closed with iconic praise for the military. Yet his script, …

In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere.

There's no question that some people in Washington would very much like for the US to have a policy toward Iran, the endgame of which is war or externally …

The story which reared its head then dropped off the radar in summer of 2010 is still alive: that the major source of funding for the Taliban is likely …

A US soldier looks over the Baiji Refinery in Baiji, Iraq, December 16, 2009. (Photo: Ayman Oghanna / The New York Times) As I write this, Israel's …

Women demonstrate at Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, on Feb. 25, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) Nabeel Rajab lives in the town of …

Elders and family members prepare to bury the body of three-month old Khan Mohammad at the Nasaji Bagrami refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, on February 8, 2012. Just a …

(Photo: abbyladybug) Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can …