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Regardless of who wins on November 6, there are no signs that either Romney or Obama will act to dismantle the lawless military commissions created after 9/11.

The Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban has rightly captured the world’s attention. But what about the invisible child victims of US drones?

The US empire is a lesson in how not to change a changing world. 

Beneath the political debates over the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens is a history of American meddling in the country—which set the stage for the assassination.

In contrast to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, Mitt Romney has turned a terrorist attack into partisan fodder.

Fear of a cyber attack is eroding US civil liberties and the constitution. 

The United States and Pakistan have become the dysfunctional nuclear family of international relations.

Though the Cuban Missile Crisis was fifty years ago, imperial America and the threat of nuclear war remains. 

The Green Party presidential candidate wants to cut the military budget, bring the troops home and spend the extra funds at home.

How in 1960s Berkeley the state waged a two-front war to stamp out opponents, real and imagined, to its rule.