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The Middle East is America’s collateral damage: The brutal truth about America’s drone wars
Tom Engelhardt
Obama's apology for the death of an American aid worker lays bare his callous indifference toward Muslim life
“This is war”: Sunday’s attack by two radicals gave Geller a perfect platform for dividing Americans along religious and ethnic lines
Wajahat Ali
The controversy isn't about satire of the Prophet, or free speech. It's about extremism and hate -- on both sides
APNewsBreak: Marine general chosen Joint Chiefs chairman
Lolita C. Baldor
The GOP’s destructive Vietnam mythology: How the right’s self-glorifying delusions led to decades of avoidable war
Peter Birkenhead
In 1980, Reagan turned the Vietnam disaster into a faux-patriotic rallying cry. We've paid the price ever since
David Brooks’ Baltimore column might be his dumbest of the year (We didn’t think it was possible, either)
Aaron Barlow
He's like the op-ed page's version of a monocle trend story now, only there for hate reads and clicks
Right-wing lunatics think the military is planning to invade Texas. Here’s why.
Heather Digby Parton
The Tea Party actually thinks the military is about to attack the Lone Star State. We wish we were making this up
Jon Stewart smacks down Judith Miller: You drove us into the “devastating” Iraq war
Colin Gorenstein
The disgraced New York Times journalist has little luck persuading Stewart that she deserves another shot
Vietnam’s most haunting lesson: Why the “War on Terror” will continue to fail after the troops come home
Christian Appy
Forty years to the day after the Vietnam War, America is still making the same mistakes. Let the revisionism begin
How Richard Nixon stabbed America in the back
Ken Hughes
Worried that losing Vietnam would doom his reelection, Tricky Dick opted to prolong the war — with tragic results
“It’s not the country I imagined for you”: A letter of apology to my grandson
Tom Engelhardt
The war on terror, an apathetic electorate and state-sanctioned torture -- this is the America I'm leaving behind
“Architects of American policy towards Russia and Ukraine are destroying American national security”: Stephen F. Cohen on the truths U.S. media and politicians hide
Patrick L. Smith
Myths of American nationalism busted as our interview with noted scholar concludes
Noam Chomsky: We’re facing a new Cold War
Noam Chomsky
The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes
America’s other Iraq calamity: How our failed war has empowered Iran
Peter Van Buren
Iran isn't any closer to developing a bomb, and the U.S. has only itself to blame for its influence in the region
Thomas Jefferson’s torturous afterlife: How Ronald Reagan and the Tea Party try to steal his legacy
Andrew Burstein
The founder of the Democratic Party seems equally beloved by right and left. How did he become a Tea Partyer?
Dick Cheney’s gift to the Middle East: How America created an Afghan Blackwater
Anand Gopal
Just as the U.S. threw its support behind the Taliban, officials have empowered a whole new set of Afghan warlords
“Westerns are always a magnifying glass”: How movies trace social change involving race, gender, ethnicity, youth & class
Richard Aquila
From "The Great Train Robbery" to "Django Unchained," westerns tell the story of the American century
America’s insidious drone dependence: Why there’s no going back
Grégoire Chamayou
From Vietnam to Afghanistan, a look at how extra-judicial killing became a linchpin of U.S. foreign policy
We gotta get out of this place: The GOP’s war fixation and the lingering curse of Vietnam
Andrew O'Hehir
A haunting film about Vietnam re-enactors touches a cultural nerve: America has never gotten past that trauma
“The GOP has scores of racists”: A former Bush official condemns modern Republican orthodoxy
Manny Otiko
Colin Powell's former chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, warns of the militarism & racism of Republican lawmakers
Listen, it’s still their f**king fault: Bush, Cheney, neo-con drivel, and the truth about Iraq and ISIS
Paul Rosenberg
We can't believe we have to explain 9/11, ISIS and Iraq again. But as the right's lies add up, here goes
Dick Cheney’s contemptible shamelessness: The Vader veep strikes again
Luke Brinker
The man who promised we'd be "greeted as liberators" in Iraq dings Obama as the "worst president" on foreign policy
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