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Chuck Hagel is no leftist. But he has stood up to AIPAC, the defense industry and the neocons.

In his new book Kill Anything That Moves, Nick Turse shows that what were often presented as isolated atrocities were in fact the norm.

The film is a seven-pronged attempt to making US torture and detention policies once again palatable.

The upcoming Knesset elections mark the culmination of settler dominance over the country's politics.

Rarely has the McCarthyite smear of “anti-Semitism” been revealed to be so empty as in the case of Obama’s DoD nominee.

When we will begin to learn the real lessons of Vietnam?

The National Intelligence Community’s Global Trends report reveals a future of continued fearmongering and American exceptionalism. 

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

The US military’s “Pacific Pivot” is raising tensions with China and prompting local resistance.

When The New York Times first revealed the NSA was wiretapping Americans without a warrant in 2005, it was a scandal. But the government continues to spy with impunity—and what was once illegal has become the law.