War & Peace

Wars are fought because some people decide it is in their interests to fight them. World War I was not started over the Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination, nor was it …

Washington - We've heard this quickening drumbeat before. Last time, it led to the tragic invasion and occupation of Iraq. This time, if we let the drummers provoke us …

It can sometimes take years for a FOIA request to be processed and for a response to come. That's why in 2007, a provision was put in by Congress …

In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere.

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Sometimes history and circumstances offer us solutions to centuries-old problems and tensions within our long-lasting government. Even though we feel like a …

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Kidnapping civilians is plainly a serious crime – unless, of course, they are mere unpeople.

Ed Kinane, Truthout “We still have a choice today: nonviolent co-existence or violent co-annihilation.” -Martin Luther King Jr. (“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence,” speech at Riverside …

The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill.

If the Department of Defense was required to do real “should-cost” studies, the historical overpricing would be obvious.