Truthout
Afghanistan
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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.
Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life
Since 9/11, the campaign for homeland security has increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies its sought to crush.
U.S. Wasting Billions While Tripling No-Bid Contracts After Decade of War in Iraq, Afghanistan
Did Bob Woodward Help the Military Subvert Obama and the Constitution?
The Pentagon gamed the process to exclude any possibility of Obama rendering a decision not to its liking.