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The Dwight Eisenhower lesson America forgot
William J. Astore
In his farewell address, Ike famously warned about our military industrial complex. Now we face permanent war
Chris Hedges: “Why should we be impoverished so that the profits of big banks, corporations, and hedge funds can swell?”
Chris Hedges
Jeremy Hammond's a hero who exposed surveillance-state secrets. His excessive prison sentence should terrify us all
Marco Rubio’s grand whitewash: Iraq, neoconservatism and the foreign policy catastrophe he wants us all to forget
Simon Maloy
What does neocon Rubio think of the Iraq war? He wouldn't have launched it, but he also thinks it was worthwhile
NYT correspondent defends Sy Hersh’s bin Laden exposé: “My own reporting tracks”
Joanna Rothkopf
Carlotta Gall writes that Hersh is "following up on a story that many of us assembled parts of"
“Farkhunda is our sister”: A murder, a martyr and an Afghan revolution in the making
Ann Jones
Forty-nine men stand trial for a woman's slaying, renewing hope for the war-torn nation's criminal justice system
Our deranged, amoral football obsession is killing us: Brain damage, accused rapists, convicted murders — now Tom Brady and the “integrity of the game”
Steve Almond
Integrity? Of a game that looks the other way as athletes maim themselves, we cheer, and corporations mint cash?
Pope Francis vs. American imperialism: Catholicism, death squads, and the martyrdom of Óscar Romero
Matthew Pulver
Later this month, the Pope will beatify Óscar Romero, who was murdered by an American-trained death squad in 1980
Everything we know about the death of Osama Bin Laden is wrong
Marcy Wheeler
A controversial report by Seymour Hersh leaves still more questions than answers, but it does make one thing clear
“Only when a woman makes her own money does she have her rights”: The importance of digital literacy in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, Jason Brooks Brown
In Afghanistan, girls are treated as second-class citizens. Access to technology could be a road to independence
White America’s greatest delusion: “They do not know it, and they do not want to know it”
Tim Wise
Pundits and politicians are all too eager to condemn violent protest. How quickly they forget our nation's history
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
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