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Wars of Attrition: Green Zones of the Mind, Guerrillas and a Technical Knockout in Afghanistan
Recently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms, as well as car bombs, the Pentagon …
More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance
In part two of our national broadcast exclusive on the growing domestic surveillance state, we speak with National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney and two targeted Americans: Oscar-nominated filmmaker …
Class Warfare on Two Fronts: From Afghanistan to Middle America, the Untold Story of Sgt. Bales
This past Thursday, a Modesto, California, man whose house was in foreclosure shot and killed the Sheriff's deputy and the locksmith who came to evict him from his condominium …
Beating the Drug-War Addiction
Buenos Aires - In January, US President Barack Obama nominated Marine Corps Lieutenant General John F. Kelly to head the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM). Based in Miami, Florida, …
National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA's massive power to spy on Americans …
What a Difference a Day (of Iran Talks) Makes
After ten hours of talks with Iran, opportunities for a diplomatic resolution of the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program have dramatically improved, and Congress gears up to vote on …
Former Guantanamo Psychiatrist Promotes Dubious Drug Theory on Afghan Killings
A tag team of two contributors to Time Magazine's Battleland blog have misrepresented the facts concerning the possibility that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales may have been under the influence …
Is Peace Getting in the Way of Our War Plans?
What a bizarre circumstance this is. The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably. The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily. This past weekend, the United States and …
Report on Iran’s Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its History
Washington - The Barack Obama administration's new interest in the 2004 religious verdict, or “fatwa”, by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banning the possession of nuclear weapons, long …
Dozens Killed in Wave of Attacks Across Iraq
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Baghdad - A string of deadly explosions and other attacks shook Iraq on Thursday, with …