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Guantanamo

Regardless of who wins on November 6, there are no signs that either Romney or Obama will act to dismantle the lawless military commissions created after 9/11.

The Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban has rightly captured the world’s attention. But what about the invisible child victims of US drones?

President Barack Obama

The US empire is a lesson in how not to change a changing world. 

Libyan security forces

Beneath the political debates over the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens is a history of American meddling in the country—which set the stage for the assassination.

In contrast to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, Mitt Romney has turned a terrorist attack into partisan fodder.

Computers

Fear of a cyber attack is eroding US civil liberties and the constitution. 

The United States and Pakistan have become the dysfunctional nuclear family of international relations.

Though the Cuban Missile Crisis was fifty years ago, imperial America and the threat of nuclear war remains. 

The Green Party presidential candidate wants to cut the military budget, bring the troops home and spend the extra funds at home.

FBI agent Donald Jones and his colleagues conducting surveillance of Berkeley pr

How in 1960s Berkeley the state waged a two-front war to stamp out opponents, real and imagined, to its rule.

Blogs

McCain seems worried by the idea of peace, and the State Department refuses to rule out a role for Iran.

May 15, 2013

The country isn’t dealing with the burden it placed on post-September 11 veterans—and some members of Congress want to start the conversation.

May 14, 2013

What, you may ask, where they thinking?

May 14, 2013

Seventeen members of nuclear launch crews have been fired and launch codes perhaps compromised, but there's little media attention.

May 10, 2013

The last thing we need is having US police intelligence departments tracking down leads from the Russian secret service.

May 10, 2013

Once again, as in run-up to Iraq war, McClatchy casts doubt on unproven WMD evidence.

May 8, 2013

The president needs to seek a cease-fire and a political accord.

May 6, 2013

The famed “psycho-historian” explores the true meanings, and dangers, of the new “killing technology.”

May 2, 2013

The congressman sees an opportunity to confront military bloat in the deficit debates and war-weariness.

May 1, 2013

Polls show Americans overwhelmingly oppose US action in Syria, 62-24.

May 1, 2013
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