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Ms. Benjamin talks with Paul Jay about the founding of Code Pink and the need for a movement independent of the Democratic Party.

We wonder how the conversation went when Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called six Air Force nuclear launch officers at underground launch control centers recently. u2026

We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid.

Non-military aid to Afghanistan, sent by the US since 2002, now approaches 100 billion dollars.

Chris Hedges: “The US military has won the ideological war. The nation sees human and social problems as military problems.”

“The individual bully is the creation of the bully nation,” according to sociologists Yale Magrass and Charles Derber, who note that bullying Chris Christie-style is a product of a …

For the majority of Americans suffering under economic apartheid, it won't matter if Hillary wins. There's just not enough there to get you out to vote on a rainy …

There exists a near perfect inverse symmetry between the real story of Amasa and the fictional story of Ahab, with each representing a face of the American Empire.

The US spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on national defense, to include wars, homeland security, a bewildering array of intelligence agencies, and the maintenance of nuclear weapons. …

It's a critical time to support Japanese efforts to oppose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's nationalist refashioning of his country.