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Recently, the United Nations peacekeeping mission fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowded refugee camp, leaving at least six hospitalized and others suffering respiratory problems. Citizen organizations …

Washington - This week's hearings over Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court will mark a sea change in the way liberals argue about the judiciary. Democratic senators are …

Winston Churchill's memorable quotation, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” captured the nobility of the RAF's performance protecting …

Washington - The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to …

Less than a year ago, General David Petraeus saluted smartly and pledged his loyal support for President Obama's decision to start withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan in July 2011. …

With all the drama around General McChrystal’s resignation, the media missed the real story in the explosive Rolling Stone article:       “...[W]e're f****ing losing this thing.” —Staff Sergeant Kennith …

Sometime Truthout contributor, military veteran and teacher, Dallas Darling, shares his personal experience of the social costs of pacifist opinions.

We hear a lot of talk about carbon dioxide as the most dangerous climate culprit. And we should. So far, loading the atmosphere with CO2 is the single biggest …

The international community (here referring to nations and international organizations) has pledged or given $9.9 billion in relief and reconstruction aid to Haiti, since the earthquake on January 12, …

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other outspoken foes of organized labor like to claim that small business owners are as anti-union as the notoriously anti-union Chamber and its …