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Romney’s $2-Trillion Defense Increase Won’t Buy More Defense, Just More Waste
Romney talks about building ships and subs and starting up the cancelled F-22 Raptor fighter line, but fails to explain how his plan would make us safer from the …

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After Making a Mess of Iraq, Bush Advisers Join Team Romney
Paul Krugman: What does it say about Mr. Romney that heu2019s relying on this crew?

War Drums Beat Ever More Loudly Over Iran
The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to be reversed.

Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza: Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height
Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten u201cstimulus packagesu201d of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped …

Hard Travelin’ With Henry Rollins: An Exclusive Interview
Henry Rollins says he likes to think of himself as his “own little punk rock journalist.” Henry Rollins says he likes to think of himself as his "own little …

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Mission Accomplished for Big Oil?
How an American Disaster Paved the Way for Big Oilu2019s Rise — and Possible Fall — in Iraq.

A Guide to Disaster at Home and Abroad: How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan – or America
One of the last things I saw in Iraq, where I spent a year with the Department of State helping squander some of the $44 billion American taxpayers put …

Trafficked Into Tragedy: Abuse of Immigrant Workers In Afghanistan and Iraq
On every military base in Iraq and Afghanistan exists an economy sustained by immigrant workers. For transportation, construction, food services, security and more, the United States government relies on …

Greg Muttitt Speaks About His Book “Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq”
Greg Muttitt Speaks About His Book

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.