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As Washington talks Iraq withdrawal, the Pentagon builds up bases in the region. Despite recent large-scale insurgent suicide bombings that have killed scores of civilians and the fact that …

November 7 marked 30 years since I won my first police brutality trial in East LA. After all these years, I have come to understand the meaning of resilience. …

Sure, the quote in the over-title is only my fantasy. No one in Washington — no less President Obama — ever said, "This administration ended, rather than extended, two …

With just over two months to go until President Obama's deadline for the closure of Guantanamo, the administration has finally woken up to the necessity of actually doing something …

How old is old enough for students to be approached by military recruiters? High school? Junior high? Fourth grade? How about ten weeks into kindergarten? Last week at the …

For drone freaks (and these days Washington seems full of them), here's the good news: Drones are hot! Not long ago — 2006 to be exact — …

The international headlines all read something to this effect, “In Uruguay: Ex-Guerrilla Fighter Headed for Runoff Vote in November.” Attention-grabbing as it is, that headline …

If Michael Moore had arrived on the film scene as a conservative Republican activist in 1989, he might be heralded by Fox News today as a major American …

The other America is the at times glitzy, often gaudy world of rampant commodification and sexualization.

Efforts to place Obama outside of history are only possible in a society that treats history like yesterday's garbage.