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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 has pledged or given $9.9 billion in relief and reconstruction aid to Haiti, since the 2010 earthquake.

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 …

The first day of the G8 Summit answered some of the questions that maternal, newborn and child health advocates had about Canada’s signature G8 initiative, The Muskoka Initiative for …

Until recently, the nine-year conflict in Afghanistan had become “the forgotten war” for many Americans – a complaint increasingly heard among US troops there. But this week’s sacking of …