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The Arrival of the Warrior Corporation (US Wars and Military Action)

How drone war became the American way of war.

Tom Engelhardt
Scoring the Global War on Terror (US Politics, US Wars and Military Action)

From liberation to assassination, in three quick rounds.

Andrew J. Bacevich
Washington's War in Yemen Backfires (War and Peace, Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

How US counterterrorism operations ignited an Islamist uprising.

Jeremy Scahill
'Losing' the World, Part One (US Politics, US Wars and Military Action, World)

American decline, from a historical perspective.

Noam Chomsky
450 Bases and Counting (Covert Ops, US Military Presence Abroad, US Wars and Military Action)

The Pentagon’s Afghan basing plans for prisons, drones and black ops.

Nick Turse
Drone flies above Afghanistan
A Brief History of Drones (Civilian Casualties, Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

John Sifton
Kicking Down the World's Door (Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

How drones, special operations forces and the US Navy plan to end national sovereignty as we know it.

Tom Engelhardt
Jeremy Scahill: Obama the Hawk (Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, US Wars and Military Action)

The Obama administration's alternatives to large-scale military operations are, in some ways, far more drastic and dangerous for US interests around the globe.

Francis Reynolds
Accusing Wikileaks of Murder (Civilian Casualties, US Military, US Wars and Military Action)

Bradley Manning, Washington and the blood of civilians.

Chase Madar
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The 'Crash and Burn' Future of Drone Warfare (Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

What seventy downed drones reveal about the new American way of war.

Nick Turse

Blogs

Ten Years Ago: Media Coverage of the 'Fall' of Baghdad Helped Spark More Years of War
Greg Mitchell

Who could forget the fakery around the fall of Saddam's statue? And the mainstream media was cheerleading all the way.

April 9, 2013
Media 'Cover-up' of Iraq War: Images Sanitized From the Start
Greg Mitchell

Why did Americans take so long to wake up to the loss of life in Iraq? Because the darker side of the invasion wasn't televised.

March 28, 2013
Ten Years Ago: How US Media 'Bungled' Coverage of the Early Days of the Iraq War
Greg Mitchell

After its shallow coverage of the lead-up to the invasion, the press turned to shallow coverage of the invasion itself.

March 27, 2013
Uproar Over the 'Wash Post' Killing My Piece—and Publishing One Claiming the Media 'Didn't Fail' on Iraq
Greg Mitchell

Rather than run a scheduled article critical of newspapers’ irresponsible approach to the Iraq invasion, the Post offered excuses and denials.

March 25, 2013
This Week: Lessons Learned From the Iraq Invasion
Katrina vanden Heuvel

One decade later, one of the most devastating tragedies in recent memory--a look back and plan forward.

March 23, 2013
Reviewing This Week's Mea Culpas on Iraq: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Greg Mitchell

Many strident voices who called for war in Iraq are now claiming ignorance and making excuses.

March 22, 2013
Ten Years Later, NPR Still Lets War Hawks Make Pathetic Excuses
Leslie Savan

The sins of omission in interviewing neocons Richard Perle and Stephen Hadley.

March 22, 2013
30 Seconds Over Toledo: How Political Ads Spell Trouble for TV News and Democracy
Eric Alterman

In the wake of Citizens United, big campaign donors are buying off not only politicians, but also the local news networks that cover them.

March 21, 2013
A Dying Iraq Vet's Indictment of Bush and Cheney
John Nichols

Tomas Young accuses the White House of war crimes and murder, including that of “the thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.”

March 20, 2013
Jeremy Scahill: Democrat Leaders Are Also to Blame for the Iraq War
Nation in the News

Following Bill Clinton’s cruel economic sanctions, Joe Biden and John Kerry were complicit in the “non-debate” during the run-up to the invasion.

March 20, 2013