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Testimonies from Israeli Defense Force veterans reveal the truth about the ongoing occupation.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Gaza has stoked a fever pitch of hard-line nationalism.

As with Operation Cast Lead, Washington is directly complicit—and this time, Israel can argue it’s merely channeling US drone assassination policy.

If the director of the CIA and a Reserve intelligence officer can’t even conduct a decent affair, what does that say about the institution that groomed them?

In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.

Most media has lauded Petraeus for his military success. But his true strength was as a P.R. prodigy. 

Israel rains death and destruction on a civilian population that cannot escape.

As the infrastructure of many U.S. cities crumbles, the Pentagon continues to pump over a billion dollars into military bases throughout the Middle East. 

Within some military and intelligence circles, it was the CIA director's relationship with JSOC—not Paula Broadwell—that raised concerns.

As people who have devoted our lives to forging a more peaceful and just world, we salute Manning's courage and condemn his treatment at the hands of the government.