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Yemen Inflamed (US Military Presence Abroad, US Wars and Military Action)

The mob that breached the US embassy was angry about an anti-Muslim film—but the country’s resentment of US policy runs much deeper.

Adam Baron
Dumb and Dumber (Foreign Policy, World Leaders, US Military Presence Abroad)

Obama’s “Smart Power’ foreign policy not smart at all.

John Feffer
Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza (Foreign Policy, Transitional Governments, US Military Presence Abroad)

Total tops Iraq at that war’s height.

Nick Turse
The Best Laid Plans (Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, US Military Presence Abroad)

How quickly will the United States leave Afghanistan?

Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt: How Did the US President Become the Assassin-in-Chief? (Foreign Policy, World Leaders, US Military Presence Abroad)

Drones have regularized a program of assassinations. 

Francis Reynolds
How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan—or America (Foreign Policy, Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, US Military Presence Abroad)

A guide to disaster at home and abroad.

Peter Van Buren
Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad (Foreign Policy, US Military Presence Abroad)

How two administrations and both parties made illegality the American way of life.

Alfred W. McCoy
Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War (Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, US Military Presence Abroad)

The election year outsourcing that no one is talking about.

Nick Turse
Mission Failure: Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, Guns and Gun Control, US Military Presence Abroad)

A message written in blood that no one wants to hear.

Tom Engelhardt
The Nature of the US Military Presence in Africa (Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, US Military Presence Abroad)

An exchange between Colonel Tom Davis and TomDispatch Associate Editor Nick Turse about military involvement in Africa.

Nick Turse

Blogs

Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Precarious Legal Grounds for Targeted Killings
Nation in the News

Yesterday, Obama laid out the justification for killing US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. But his reasoning had very little legal grounding at all. 

May 24, 2013
The $6 Trillion Wars
Bob Dreyfuss

Fighting for nothing, and destroying countries in the process, costs a lot.

March 29, 2013
Rachel Maddow To Probe Lies That Led to Iraq War in TV Special 'Hubris'
Greg Mitchell

The MSNBC host promises new revelations—will she cover colleagues' support for the war?

February 14, 2013
What Obama Won't Tell Us About Afghanistan Tonight
Bob Dreyfuss

Drawing down soldiers by 2016 isn’t fast enough—just look at the many civilians killed by the US military and the prisoners tortured by US-trained forces.

February 12, 2013
Ten Ridiculous Questions From Chuck Hagel’s Confirmation Hearing
George Zornick

We just witnessed one of the most absurd, embarrassing hearings in recent Washington memory.

January 31, 2013
Guilty or Not? A Marine Kills Civilians in Afghanistan
Bob Dreyfuss

In an op-ed, a soldier asks if he was wrong in accidentally killing Afghan civilians—but do Americans really care?

January 25, 2013
Colbert Tests Bigelow on 'Zero Dark Thirty'—in Unaired Parts of His Interview
Greg Mitchell

The probing parts of the talk show host’s interview were cut before broadcast.

January 23, 2013
Brennan at the CIA Might Surprise Us
Bob Dreyfuss

The tough guy might yet rein in drones. And steer the CIA away from covert ops to intelligence collection.

January 22, 2013
Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Covert Wars Contradict His Rhetoric
Nation in the News

The president continues to expand drone strikes and special operations, even as he decries the country’s war footing.

January 22, 2013
How About Gun Control for the Pentagon?
Laura Flanders

For all the droning on about US gun violence, it would be good to hear someone drone on just a bit about US drones.

January 11, 2013
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