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This isn't “defense.” The new budget from the White House will push US military spending well above $2 billion a day. Foreclosing the future of our country should not …

Over 10,000 US troops are in Haiti right now. That's at least one US soldier for every 100 Haitians. If these soldiers were actually distributing food and water, every …

Norman Solomon interview 1/27/10 from Jon Stiffler on Vimeo. Norman Solomon spoke at the Santa Rosa Democratic Club meeting on January 27, 2010. Above, is a short summation of …

Has the Democratic Party abandoned support of reproductive rights? Next on “NOW.”

Kabul - On the surface, it would seem unlikely that Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who presides over a politically feeble government and is highly dependent on the U.S. military …

This is how major US defense contractors reacted to the unveiling of President Barack Obama's fiscal year 2011 spending plan for the Pentagon, part of the president's overall $3.8 …

This is the second and final installment of Melvin Goodman's series on the Obama administration and the intelligence community. Part one can be read here. New presidents (and President …

I wish conservatives would stop complaining about big government and start worrying about the real problem – small democracy. I wish we'd all worry more about our incredible shrinking …

Washington - When I heard Scott Brown, the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, describe himself as a “Scott Brown Republican,” I groaned. It sounded as if he's coming to …

Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? Henry A. Giroux Palgrave MacMillan, 2009 When, in a casual aside during a Macroeconomics lecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton …