Military

So, we have eleven aircraft carrier groups. No other country in the world has more than one.

We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid.

Non-military aid to Afghanistan, sent by the US since 2002, now approaches 100 billion dollars.

Chris Hedges: “The US military has won the ideological war. The nation sees human and social problems as military problems.”

In Minnesota, radical changes to graduation testing requirements make it easier for high school students' personal information to be sent to military recruiters without parental consent.

In Iraq, the US broke a nation of human beings, and it owes them an apologyu2013and restitution.

“The individual bully is the creation of the bully nation,” according to sociologists Yale Magrass and Charles Derber, who note that bullying Chris Christie-style is a product of a …

On issues from domestic inequality to foreign policy, President Obama delivered the fifth State of the Union with a vow to take action on his own should Congress stonewall …

There is a virtual canyon separating the mainstream's awestruck regard for Robert Gates as a “wise man” and his record as a deceitful opportunist known to his former colleagues.

In southwest Mexico, Michoacan residents have taken up arms and formed a self-defense militia to protect themselves from violent drug cartels, succeeding where state and federal authorities have failed.