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Why Americans are so easily terrorized by ISIS
Tom Engelhardt
Fear-mongering has been the U.S. media soundtrack since 9/11. Like Muzak, it's affected us in ways we don't realize
The “New American Century” is over before it started
Pepe Escobar
While America battles ISIS in the Middle East, a new kind of threat to its global hegemony is emerging in Eurasia
The ballad of Marine Todd, apocryphal right-wing hero
David Roth
The legend of a fed-up marine who knocks out his atheist professor is more than a meme. It's folk literature
U.S. government to American people: Stay away from these countries
Simran Khosla
In total, the State Department has travel warnings in place for 41 nations across the globe
Hypocrite GOPer gets comeuppance: “Our district deserves somebody who’s honest”
Elias Isquith
Lenda Sherrell tells Salon about facing Rep. Scott DesJarlais, the "pro-life" GOPer caught in a tawdry sex scandal
“A very brutal style of warfare”: Terrorism expert explains ISIS — and what you should really know
Elias Isquith
ISIS may be the result of American policy, but it doesn't mean we can make them just go away, an expert tells Salon
Lies the media repeats about Iraq: Phony patriotism, fake Syrian “moderates” and the very real end of empire
Patrick L. Smith
We have made a shocking mess in the Middle East. This new adventure sets America up for incredible decline
Obama’s U.N. speech: We won’t be “an occupying power”
Julie Pace, Josh Lederman
In speech before General Assembly, president says the world is "at a crossroads between war and peace"
Who profits from our new war? Inside NSA and private contractors’ secret plans
Tim Shorrock
A massive war operation is being waged to track and kill ISIS -- and it's a lot more than cruise missiles
Obama’s top 5 “war” euphemisms: Words he’s used to avoid calling latest war a “war”
Luke Brinker
Here's how the president is avoiding the W word. It's a campaign!
The right’s Alinsky problem: Desperate right-wing ploy to make “radicals” of Obama and Clinton
Simon Maloy
Conservatives obsess over a long-dead radical activist's links to Democrats, and lash out when nobody seems to care
Higher ed’s obscene profit scheme: Schools, banks and the government win — you drown in debt
Astra Taylor, Hannah Appel
A lifetime of debt, but lousy job prospects. For-profit colleges are a big waste, but schools sure do cash in
Rand Paul’s essential fraud: Why he can’t be the spokesman for civil liberties or anti-war
Heather Digby Parton
Paul grabs headlines for being an uneven, inconsistent war skeptic -- when there are actual real ones in Congress
“My boys”: The Syrian street kids who found me
Emily Jane O'Dell
I was a professor far from home. They were refugees. With a camera, we saw the world through each other's eyes
Obama, the slide back to Iraq and the power of the “Deep State”
Andrew O'Hehir
Critics like Michael Moore are partly right -- but Obama's doomed presidency is more momentous than they think
This is how ISIS wins: Repeating the Bush/Cheney/Rove approach just won’t work
Paul Rosenberg
The way to battle ISIS long-term is to understand its appeal and retain our humanity. Take Sun Tzu's word for it!
We really must remember the epic failures of George W. Bush
Paul Rosenberg
The New York Times wants us to forget how we got here. The real problem is that Barack Obama stopped reminding us
The deadly truth about vaccine denialism
Cliff Weathers
"People assume this will never happen to them until it happens to them"
Why America will never win the war on terror
Tom Engelhardt
The U.S. military is neither a nation nor an army builder. It bodes ill for our future efforts in the Middle East
A suggestion for the House Benghazi committee: Let’s talk about private military contractors
Mitchell Zuckoff
Here's a topic Benghazi hearings should cover: Military contractors' enormous role, and their shameful treatment
US to assign 3,000 from US military to fight Ebola
Jim Kuhnhenn
Administration says Syrian rebels it wants to arm to fight ISIS are not secretly allied with ISIS
Elias Isquith
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest pushes back on the latest argument from intevention skeptics
Scott Walker’s sinister “voter ID” lifeline: How a new ruling could save his hide
Brad Friedman
Voter suppression laws get huge boost from right-wing judges in WI and NC, where hundreds recently disenfranchised
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