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The US military command in Afghanistan announced early Wednesday morning that the Army's Criminal Investigation Division will be investigating whether an unknown number of American soldiers were responsible for …

The U.S. government can now keep prisoners in custody who have not necessarily been convicted of a crime, based on suspicions of “future dangerousness.”   The U.S. Supreme Court's …

Is that the wake-up smell of coffee wafting through the halls of the Pentagon? After a decade and a half of unparalleled budget growth, top Defense Department officials are …

Four years ago, independent journalist Danny Schechter came out with a film called “In Debt We Trust,” which warned of the coming credit crisis. Your Call had him on …

Washington - The latest glimpse of video footage of the oil spill deep under the Gulf of Mexico indicates that around 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons, a day …

Thomas Jefferson out, Phyllis Schlafly in? While the proposed changes to Texas social studies standards aren't quite so simple (and contrary to some reports, Thomas Jefferson would still be …

As Britain's political class pretends that its arranged marriage of Tweedledee to Tweedledum is democracy, the inspiration for the rest of us is Greece. It is hardly surprising that …

Republicans in Congress are trying to block the US Treasury Department from supporting US tax funded International Monetary Fund (IMF) contributions to the so-called “bailouts” in Europe, which, as …

Writer and activist Mary Sojourner returned to her old stomping grounds in Flagstaff Arizona, where, on Sunday April 18, 2010, Truthout's Leslie Thatcher interviewed her about “home,” love, addiction, …

The more we learn about the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the more we ought to question the basic assumptions that led us here. Like …