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The neocon think tank's recent call for an increase in troop strength is myopic.

A federal magistrate in Georgia sentenced eleven people to prison for up to six months last week for crossing the line onto a military base in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience last fall.

A report from the SOA protests at Ft. Benning.

In his now-famous report on Abu Ghraib prison, Maj. Gen.

The main effect of bringing back the draft would be to further militarize the nation.

The war on Iraq has made us all painfully aware of the Pentagon's growing reliance on private companies.

So there were WMDs in Iraq after all. They're called digital cameras.
Partly because of them, the United States faces one of the most
humiliating defeats in imperial history.

We're told that the few rotten apples
Who brought on this sordid affair'll
Be punished. But what if those apples
Are right at the top of the barrel?

"Abu Ghraib prison was used for torture in Saddam's time.

My father and most of my uncles fought in World War II. I grew up in the
shadow of the war.