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A new report shows that a central element of the Bush administration response to 9/11 was itself to spread terror—on a global scale.

The Islamic Republic has survived for so long because its basic model is, according to numerous surveys, what a majority of Iranians actually want. 

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

The CFR report concludes that “the current trajectory of US drone strike policies is unsustainable."

Not once has Obama’s nominee voted to reject a defense budget.

Why aren’t film director Kathryn Bigelow’s claimed government sources, including employees of the CIA, in jail like Bradley Manning?

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.