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Pat Tillman’s parents: Army, Bush used our son
Eric Boehlert
The family of the former NFL player who volunteered to hunt bin Ladin, says government purposefully lied about their son's death.
Music, the military, and badgers
Salon Staff
TTers weigh in on the dumbing down of war and rock, and play with five weird words.
Worse than a flushed Quran
Eric Boehlert
Forget flushed Qurans -- the New York Times, quoting an Army report, details how Afghan prisoner torture was widespread
Religious abuses at Gitmo
Mark Follman
More evidence as to why Newsweek's blunder doesn't debunk the greater mess of allegations about mistreatment of detainees -- religious coercion included -- at the U.S. military prison.
The lies that led to war
Juan Cole
A leaked British memo, and other documents, make it clear that Bush intended all along to invade Iraq -- and lied about it to the American people. The full gravity of his offense has not yet sunk in.
Wrong and right
Sidney Blumenthal
Newsweek clearly erred in its sourcing, but the White House is committing a far greater sin in ignoring the overwhelming evidence of U.S. abuse of Muslim detainees.
Rise in soldiers needing medical care
Mark Benjamin
Veterans Affairs says 85,000 troops from Afghanistan and Iraq have been treated in military hospitals.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers sound off on Newsweek's retracted story, Bill Moyers' take on the media, and whether anyone cares if the New York Times charges for its online content.
Newsweek tells its own story
Mark Follman
The magazine's blunder was a big one, and any argument in its own defense merits some skepticism. But it's spot on about the greater backdrop for the Islamic world's violent reaction.
Newsweek retracts, but where are the facts?
Tim Grieve
Did interrogators really flush the Quran? Did the magazine's article really spark riots?
“A democracy can die of too many lies”
Bill Moyers
Television journalist Bill Moyers blasts flag-wearing phonies, reporters who parrot the government line, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's "dangerous" campaign to silence dissenting voices.
The bigger story on Quran abuse at Gitmo
Mark Follman
Newsweek's blunder aside, numerous past stories revealed that the Quran was abused by interrogators at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.
How real is “24”?
Spencer Ackerman
Could terrorists blow us up with the "nuclear football"? Do jihadi cells party in clubs and recruit infidels? Could Jack Bauer legally kidnap and torture you? What the paranoid hit show gets wrong -- and what it gets right.
The accountability moment
Tim Grieve
The White House says Newsweek hasn't apologized enough. When are Bush and Cheney going to start?
Holding Newsweek accountable
Julia Day
The Pentagon decries the magazine's use of anonymous sources in an untrue story that sparked violent protests among Muslims.
“A rallying cry to the Muslim world”
Paul Harris
A U.S. military translator offers a searing account of the abuses at Guantanamo in "Inside the Wire."
Prophetic words
Robert Schlesinger
Just about everyone -- even Bush -- predicted the perilous situation the U.S. military finds itself in.
“A very big catch”
Randeep Ramesh
U.S. and Pakistani officials claim the capture of a top al-Qaida suspect could lead them to bin Laden, but analysts are doubtful.
The atheist
Gordy Slack
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages.
Rogue officialdom
Joe Conason
The exoneration of top brass in the Abu Ghraib scandal makes a mockery of our system.
What they really knew before 9/11
Mark Follman
Did the FBI get specific evidence about al-Qaida's plans for the United States months before the planes hit the buildings?
Uncovering the cost of war
Mark Follman
The Pentagon is forced to release some images of the flag-draped coffins of American soldiers.
Spitting on Marla Ruzicka’s grave
Mark Follman
How low can you go? Debbie Schlussel, a right-wing political "commentator" and self-proclaimed heiress to Ann Coulter, digs up the recently buried humanitarian activist and kicks her around.
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