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What a busted robot airplane tells us about American empire in 2012 and beyond.

With foreclosure and unemployment rates even higher for veterans, their participation in the Occupy movement was inevitable.

American politicians try not to talk about it, but it's been apparent to the Pakistani security complex for some time: the Afghan Taliban cannot be militarily defeated.

State Department employee Peter Van Buren was sent to Iraq to help rebuild it. The result was an exercise in Murphy's Law.

At Fenway Park, a look at the changing relationship between sports and the American military. 

Four reasons why Pfc. Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, not a prison cell. 

When peace activists discovered that one of their fellow organizers was in fact a military informant, they decided to take their case to the courts.

Lieutenant Dan Choi joins The Nation to discuss his recent arrest and how restricting protest is just another way to suppress freedom of speech.

Three decades after we first decided to use Osama bin Laden and other imported Muslim zealots for our Cold War purposes, we feel cleansed by his death of any responsibility for his carnage.