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Question about America's enemies

Glenn Greenwald
Does the U.S. ever fight against anyone it didn't recently arm, fund and/or otherwise fortify?
Rescue workers remove a man from the World Trade Center tower in New York City early September 11, 2001. Both towers were hit by planes crashing into the building. Victims from the attack on the World Trade Center - many suffering from extensive burns - began arriving at hospitals in New York City about an hour after two planes slammed into the twin towers, witnesses said Tuesday. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton JC/ME (Reuters)

The terrible post-9/11 truth: Our government's been hijacked

Michael Winship
Democracy has been commandeered by a self-interested gang
A Thai go-go dancers waits for customers at Bangkok's normally packed Soi Cowboy red-light area just before curfew May 25, 2010. Bar owners and go-go dancers say a night-time curfew in the Thai capital has badly affected their business, with tourist scared off and expatriate customers staying home. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TRAVEL BUSINESS) (Reuters)

Terrorism at a Thai brothel

Patrick Winn
In Asia's bloodiest Islamist insurgency, jihadis target a lesser known breed of sex tourist
George Washington

George Washington’s eerie foresight

Jeremi Suri
Over the last two centuries, his vision of the nation-state has become the norm. But why?

U.S. taxpayer funding stimulus — in Afghanistan

Justin Elliott
The United States paid for over half of the Afghan government's total budget between 2006 and 2010
A Palestinian waves a flag during a demonstration in the West Bank, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011

Obama should support Palestinian statehood

HDS Greenway
If the president wants to foster peace and be on the right side of history, he must back the Palestinian U.N. bid
President Barack Obama gestures while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Is the purple president turning blue?

Michael Lind
Obama's new rhetoric counts, even if it's insincere campaign rhetoric
** TO GO WITH PADILLA JUICIO ** ** FILE ** Jose Padilla, center, is escorted to a waiting police vechicle by federal marshals near downtown Miami in this Jan. 5, 2006, file photo. The Bush administration's decision to charge alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla in civilian court resolved one major legal challenge to the president's ability to hold people without charge in the war on terror. But things have not gone smoothly since, with Padilla and his defendants filing dozens of motions seeking access to government secrets and overseas terror detainees and poking holes in the evidence itself. Trial has already been delayed once and now, four months before the case is supposed to go before a jury, it appears to be anything but a slam dunk for the government. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter) (Associated Press)

Jose Padilla and how American justice functions

Glenn Greenwald
A new ruling paves the way for stiffer punishment, while his lawless jailers and torturers walk free
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U.S. to build new massive prison in Bagram

Glenn Greenwald
Severe budgetary constraints and calls for austerity at home are no deterrent to expansion of American militarism
An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Matthew A. Harmon Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

Why body bags prompt support for war

David Sirota
Research confirms the pathology of staying the course
President Barack Obama points to the crowd following his speech at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, where he spoke about the American Jobs Act. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP)

Obama announces debt plan built on taxes on rich

Jim Kuhnhenn
President emphatic that spending cuts alone can't solve debt problem
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks on his American Jobs Act legislation, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Obama to propose $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue

Jim Kuhnhenn
President would veto any deficit-reduction plan that didn't include tax hikes on the wealthy

How Obama’s destabilizing the world

Nick Turse
American troops are on the ground in an increasing number of volatile countries -- and they're making things worse

We’re winning the war on war

Joshua S. Goldstein
Over the last few decades, we've dramatically reduced the number of conflict casualties. But what does it mean?

Obama cozies up to Central Asian dictator

Justin Elliott
The exigencies of the Afghan war lead the administration to ask for military aid to Uzbekistan
Leon Panetta and Robert Gates

Why Pentagon bloat will kill real deficit cutting

Winslow T. Wheeler
Congress has taken a hostage that no one wants to shoot
Medical nurses of U.S Marines carry the injuried Afghan boy to hospital after he fell from a wall at Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (AP)

Major discovery: a purpose of the war in Afghanistan

Glenn Greenwald
The U.S. is determined to stay until there are no Afghans left who wants it gone. Then it can leave.
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U.S. officials: Al-Qaida ops chief killed by CIA

Kimberly Dozier
Top Pakistani operative dead after drone strike earlier this week
A Palestinian youth throws rocks towards a tank during clashes with Israeli soldiers

The Arab Spring is coming to Palestine

Justin Elliott
And U.S.-trained forces are caught in the middle

America’s oil-fueled collapse

Michael Klare
The U.S. empire was built on petroleum. Our refusal to adapt to the resource's scarcity could be our downfall
An Afghan soldier takes position under a huge poster of Afghan President Hamid Karzai with his late brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, during a gun battle with militants in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday in a brazen attack two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

U.S. ambassador: Haqqani group behind Kabul attack

Heidi Vogt, Amir Shah
Pakistan-based network supposedly behind assault, which ended at dawn this morning
Mark Steyn

Right-winger foresees end of America

Mark Adomanis
But Mark Steyn's shoddy evidence, confused logic and witty style say more about the conservative psyche
Members of U.S. Marine Scout-Sniper team look for a Taliban position in a nearby tree-line, during an exchange of fire with Taliban militants, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

Taliban attack U.S. Embassy, other Kabul buildings

Rahim Faiez, Amir Shah
Insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at multiple targets in Afghan capital

State of denial

Michael Lind
The Pax Americana of the last half-century is collapsing. Here's the debate we need to have as a nation now
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