Truthout
Afghanistan
Blair, War, Olympic Deals and a Glimpse of Another Britain
Today, 4.8 million victims of Agent Orange are children, all of them shockingly deformed.
The Sky as It Falls
For the Afghan Peace Volunteers, living in a working class area of Kabulu2019s u201cKarte Sehu201d district, daily problem-solving requires a triage process.
The Lily-Pad Strategy: How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War
Since the u201cBlack Hawk Downu201d deaths in Somalia almost 20 years ago, weu2019ve heard little, if anything, about American military casualties in Africa. The growing number of patients arriving …
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Remembering the Violence and Elitism Behind US Independence
It's possible that the space of 236 years and a truckload of fireworks are obscuring our view of the fact that we've become the redcoats.
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Report: War on Drugs Fueling the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
An estimated 33 million people worldwide are living with HIV and use of injection drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine accounts for one-third of new infections outside of sub-Saharan …
Afghanistan’s Corrupt Oligarchy
The brothers of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's incompetent, impossibly vain, and dishonest president, have amassed astonishing fortunes.
It Couldn’t Happen Here, It Does Happen There
After more than a decade of our most recent Afghan War, the Obama administration and the US military are clearly willing to hang out a temporary sign saying: 'Washington …
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The War Drones On…
The increasing toll taken by these robotic executioners is beginning to register with the public, after many years of automated death from above in our adventurist wars. Still, the …
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Why I Returned My Medals
On May 20, during the first day of the NATO Summit in Chicago, Mr. Clumpner returned his medals along with 43 other veterans.
Yes, Virginia, We Can Do Something About the Drone Strikes
There's a conventional wisdom in Washington that there's nothing we can do politically to stop the US government from killing innocent civilians with drone strikes.