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Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, salutes at his first campaign event on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Greenland, N.H. after announcing earlier in the day that he's running for President in 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Perry: The military doesn’t respect Obama

Justin Elliott
"I want to make sure that every [soldier] respects highly the president of the United States," he says

Pakistani belief about drones: perceptive or paranoid?

Glenn Greenwald
President Obama's former National Intelligence Director makes the case that drones are counter-productive

The Pentagon’s new China war plan

Stephen Glain
Despite budget woes, the military is preparing for a conflict with our biggest rival -- and we should be worried
In this Aug. 23, 2010 photo provided by photographer Noor Behram, a man holds debris from a missile strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan. A gallery in London is staging an exhibit of photographs taken by a Pakistani photographer allegedly showing innocent civilians killed by U.S. drone missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border, the organizers said Monday. Noor Behram, a 39-year-old photographer who has worked with several international news agencies, has spent the last three years photographing the aftermath of drone strikes in North and South Waziristan, important sanctuaries for al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan. He said he has managed to reach around 60 attack sites, and the exhibit that opens Tuesday at the Beaconsfield gallery in London features photographs from 28 of those strikes. (AP Photo/Noor Behram,HO) (AP)

Study: CIA drones strikes have killed 168 children

Justin Elliott
The Obama administration says a year of drone strikes in Pakistan killed zero civilians; outside experts disagree
Texas Gov. Rick Perry bows his head as he leads a prayer at The Response, a call to prayer for a nation in crisis, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, in Houston. Perry attended the daylong prayer rally despite criticism that the event inappropriately mixes religion and politics. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (AP)

“My faith requires me to support Israel”

Justin Elliott
Rick Perry's Christian Zionist foreign policy
In front of a portrait of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gestures, in a gathering of recovered drug addicts for a ceremony commemorating International Day Against Drug Abuse, at the Azadi (Freedom) sport complex, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Vahid Salemi)

The campaign to blame Iran for downed U.S. chopper

Justin Elliott
Two media outlets air the baseless claim that Iran helped shoot down the SEALs' helicopter over the weekend
Bambi Lynn of Fairlawn, Ohio, wipes away tears during a prayer vigil at Copley Community Park in Copley Township, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. A man gunned down two people outside an Ohio home and two more in a car Sunday morning, then shot his girlfriend in a rampage that left eight dead including the gunman, who was shot by police, authorities and witnesses said. Lynn is fearful that one of the victims is a co-worker. (AP Photo/Phil Long) (AP)

The exclusively foreign proclivity for violence

Salon Staff
In the aftermath of violence committed by Americans, where is the reflection on root causes we demand from others?
A property is on fire near Reeves Corner in Croydon, south London Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. (AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE (AP)

The right’s non-reaction to the London riots

Glenn Greenwald
Conservative media outlets were quick to turn previous rioting episodes into ideological talking points

When youth culture stood up to tyranny

Mandy Van Deven
Can hip-hop help modernize the Middle East? A veteran observer suggests music and comedy shaped the Arab Spring
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (L) shakes hands with China's President Hu Jintao during a meeting in Beijing May 20, 2011

What if we lose Pakistan to China

Jason Overdorf
Why America's waning influence on the Muslim nation could be good news for both the U.S. and India
The shadow of a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Shadow "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-52, comes in to land on a mission on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday Aug 5, 2011.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (AP)

Copter shot down, killing 30 US troops, 7 Afghans

Kimberly Dozier, Solomon Moore
SEALs from famed unit among casualties; deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in decade-old war
ADDS DATE OF CRASH - FILE - A US Marine tries to take cover, perched on a container, trying to shelter from the dust as a Chinook helicopter arrives to pick up supplies at Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, in this June 9, 2011 file photo. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says 31 U.S. special forces and seven Afghan soldiers were killed when a helicopter, similar to the one shown crashed in eastern Wardak province Saturday Aug. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File) (AP)

SEALs who caught Osama among those killed

Solomon Moore
31 die in downed helicopter; worse loss of life in Afghanistan since war began
Lamis Ali, 29, arrives for afternoon prayers at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, May 6, 2011. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) (© Rebecca Cook / Reuters)

Debunking stereotypes of Muslim Americans

Justin Elliott
Gallup asks Americans of different faiths about terrorism, prejudice and foreign policy -- with surprising results
FILE - In this June 9, 2011 file photo, Defense Secretary nominee Leon Panetta testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Itís a short hop down the Potomac from CIA headquarters, where Leon Panetta headed the spy agency for 2Ω years, to the Pentagon, where he takes over Friday, July 1, 2011 as secretary of defense. The two jobs, however, are worlds apart.. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The administration’s stated budget priorities

Glenn Greenwald
Leon Panetta demands cuts to Social Security and Medicare to avoid cuts in Pentagon spending
A photo taken by a local resident shows the wreckage of a helicopter next to the wall of the compound where Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011

How many secret wars are we fighting?

Nick Turse
U.S. special ops forces are being deployed in more and more nations -- and the public has no idea

The true cost of George W. Bush’s magical thinking

Gene Lyons
The Wall Street meltdown happened at the perfect moment for Republicans to blame the fallout on Obama

Will military spending bankrupt the U.S.?

Tom Engelhardt
Our debt problems stem from the fact that we're pouring more money into the Pentagon than we have since WWII

Are some nations too big to fail?

David Case
A look at why the world's major economies -- and not the emerging ones -- are drowning in debt
FILE - In this June 26, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama smiles as he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, not shown, participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Turning 50 is hard enough. But it's got to be even harder when you're president, because the whole world knows about it. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File) (AP)

The myth of Obama’s “blunders” and “weakness”

Glenn Greenwald
Even when the President repeatedly says he wants severe budget cuts, many refuse to believe him
President Barack Obama turns to leave after speaking from White House briefing room, Sunday, July 31, 2011 in Washington, about a deal being reached to raise the debt limit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Obama didn’t “cave” on the debt ceiling

Matthew Dickinson
Yes, he got almost nothing out of this deal. But let's consider the harsh political realities he was up against

How we became a nation of warriors

Stephen Glain
Over the last century, militarism has warped our foreign policy -- and our soul. Can the budget crisis save them?
FILE - This Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 file photo released by the official website of the Iranian Supreme Leader's office, shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, delivering a speech after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seated at left, formally endorsed him for a second term as President during an official ceremony in Tehran, Iran. As Iran's capacity to build nuclear weapons grows, intelligence assessments from nations that follow Tehran's atomic progress discern increasing indecision and squabbling by its leadership on whether to make such arms - and if so, how overtly. Most suggest Ahmadinejad is more circumspect. But an intelligence summary shared recently with The Associated Press sees Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the more cautious of the two and says the Revolutionary Guard is benefiting from the dispute, with some of the authority normally exercised by the president devolving to it. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader, File) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES ** EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT (AP)

U.S. accuses Iran of “secret deal” with al-Qaida

Matthew Lee, Bradley Klapper
Administration says Iranian government provides money and recruits for attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan

The Pentagon’s manipulative PR stunt

Andrew Bacevich
What looked like a feel-good moment at Fenway Park was really a perfectly executed bit of propaganda
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, stands with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Let’s just call them the “Deadbeat Party”

Gene Lyons
GOP cultists occupy a metaphysical netherworld where basic arithmetic is scorned as an elitist tool
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