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Pentagon Can’t Account for $1 Billion in Afghanistan Emergency Reconstruction Aid
The amount is 60 percent of all such spending under an emergency program.
Uncle Pentagon: Growing Up in the Shadow of the US War State
“In many ways, I grew up at the Pentagon.”
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What Works, What Doesn’t to Counter Extremism: It’s Not More of the Same
It's time to get serious about addressing the root causes of violence.
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The Pentagon Wants $5 Billion for Iraq-Syria War? Three Reasons to Oppose
Congress still has not debated and voted to authorize use of military force in Iraq and Syria.
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Don’t Ask the Pentagon Where Its Money Goes
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)President Barack Obama proudly signed the law that repealed the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, freeing lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans (although not trans people) to openly …
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Ellsberg Sees Vietnam-Like Risks in ISIS War
Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official who leaked the Pentagon Papers exposing the Vietnam War lies, is alarmed at the many parallels between Vietnam and President Obama's new …
Film Exposes Militarized Police Facts Day Ahead of Hearings in Congress
A short film has been released by Brave New Films, documenting how the Pentagon has flooded small town police forces with tanks and equipment capable of waging war.
Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists
Drones are now being used on US soil by the FBI, Secret Service, Texas Rangers and some local police forces.
Communal Lands: Theater of Operations for the Counterinsurgency
US mapping expeditions in indigenous lands in Mexico conceal strategic US military economic and geopolitical goals.
Across Latin America, a Struggle for Communal Land and Indigenous Autonomy
With a rise in the number of Latin American indigenous groups drawing legal boundaries around their territories, neoliberal governments are attempting to grant access to transnational corporations to indigenous …