Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater’s Secret Relationship with Big Business Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater’s Secret Relationship with Big Business
Jeremy Scahill says secret documents reveal Blackwater's relationships with multinational corporations like Monsanto and Chevron, as well as to foreign governments.
Sep 20, 2010 / Video / Democracy Now!
Rwanda’s Other Genocide Rwanda’s Other Genocide
Paul Kagame has been praised for leading Rwanda’s recovery after the 1994 genocide. But his image has become increasingly tarnished, with reports of political repression now ...
Sep 17, 2010 / Tristan McConnell
The Breakdown: What Will Happen if Obama’s Nuclear Arms Treaty Does Not Pass? The Breakdown: What Will Happen if Obama’s Nuclear Arms Treaty Does Not Pass?
In April, President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the New START Treaty, the biggest nuclear arms pact in a generation. But the treaty faces significant Republi...
Sep 17, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
An Unsettling Protest in Israel An Unsettling Protest in Israel
Dozens of Israeli theater artists are refusing to perform in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Now they’ve been joined by hundreds of artists and scholars from both Israel a...
Sep 15, 2010 / Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon
Blackwater’s Black Ops Blackwater’s Black Ops
Internal documents reveal the firm's clandestine work for multinationals and governments.
Sep 15, 2010 / Decade in Review / Jeremy Scahill
The Other Side of the New American Foundation: The Afghan ‘War of Necessity’ The Other Side of the New American Foundation: The Afghan ‘War of Necessity’
A former Cheney aide Michael Waltz blasts Obama at a New America Foundation forum, following the Foundation's recent internal disagreement over the war in Afghanistan.
Sep 15, 2010 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
The ‘American Way of War’ Quiz The ‘American Way of War’ Quiz
To weigh your skills, take the eleven-question pop quiz below, and see if you deserve to be a four-star general, a gun-totin’ mercenary or a mere private.
Sep 14, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
Afghanistan on Life Support Afghanistan on Life Support
The American war and Afghanistan’s civilians.
Sep 13, 2010 / Nick Turse
Congress to Hold Hearings on Nation Investigation Into Discharges of Veterans Congress to Hold Hearings on Nation Investigation Into Discharges of Veterans
The House Veterans Affairs Committee will hold hearings Wednesday morning into the impact of "personality disorder discharges," and allegations raised in The Nation in April that the Department of Defense is cheating veterans of health benefits through faulty "personality disorder" diagnoses. The Committee, chaired by Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA) will call both reporter Joshua Kors and the subject of his investigation, former Army Sgt. Chuck Luther, as witnesses. Information about the hearing is here. You can read Joshua Kors's "Disposable Soldiers" here. For media inquiries, contact ben [at] thenation [dot] com. In "Disposable Soldiers," Kors provides an overview of the investigation and the issue at stake: For three years The Nation has been reporting on military doctors' fraudulent use of personality disorder to discharge wounded soldiers [see Kors, "How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits," April 9, 2007]. PD is a severe mental illness that emerges during childhood and is listed in military regulations as a pre-existing condition, not a result of combat. Thus those who are discharged with PD are denied a lifetime of disability benefits, which the military is required to provide to soldiers wounded during service. Soldiers discharged with PD are also denied long-term medical care. And they have to give back a slice of their re-enlistment bonus. That amount is often larger than the soldier's final paycheck. As a result, on the day of their discharge, many injured vets learn that they owe the Army several thousand dollars. According to figures from the Pentagon and a Harvard University study, the military is saving billions by discharging soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan with personality disorder.
Sep 13, 2010 / Press Room
GAO: Iraq’s Government, Requesting Billions, Has Billions in Surplus GAO: Iraq’s Government, Requesting Billions, Has Billions in Surplus
A GAO report suggests that Iraq is not broke. Instead, Iraq’s rulers have been sitting on a vast pile of cash while begging for billions of dollars from the US and the i...
Sep 10, 2010 / Aram Roston