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How an American disaster paved the way for Big Oil’s rise—and possible fall—in Iraq.

If US troops find themselves morally injured, shouldn’t we ask: Who put them in the position to suffer such wounds in the first place?

Revelations about Obama's drone assassinations led to official outrage—against the leakers. It's the policy that warrants investigation.

The MSNBC host and Nation editor at large has always been a thoughtful and fair journalist. That includes how he conducted himself in the controversy around his Memorial Day show.

President Barack Obama and his apostles.

Globalizing the “Global War on Terror.”

The new trajectory of US warfare.

Whistling past the graveyard of empires.

We should shrink the alliance’s budget and ambitions and focus on the greatest threat to the West: economic crisis.

At the first International Drone Summit, advocates call for transparency and an end to the US policies that rain terror from the sky.