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Pentagon Will Cut Services and Benefits to Soldiers While Protecting Profits of Defense Industry
William Hartung: Those who fight the wars will face cuts, but not high-ranking military personnel or the companies that build weapons.
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Our Military: Fighting to Keep Its Culture of Abuse
US military commanders should show courage and end a culture that has allowed shameful numbers of cases of sexual abuse, and retaliation for its reporting, in the ranks, says …
Obama Sucked the Steam Out of the Antiwar Movement
Ms. Benjamin talks with Paul Jay about the founding of Code Pink and the need for a movement independent of the Democratic Party.
Building the Morale of Missileers
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
Washington’s Military Aid to Israel: Fake Peace Process, Real War Process
We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid.
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Salt and Terror in Afghanistan
Non-military aid to Afghanistan, sent by the US since 2002, now approaches 100 billion dollars.
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Chris Hedges | Military Metaphysics: How Militarism Mangles the Mind
Chris Hedges: “The US military has won the ideological war. The nation sees human and social problems as military problems.”
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Bully Nation
“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 …
Hillary Vs. the 99%
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 …
The Two Faces of Empire: Melville Knew Them, We Still Live With Them
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.