Cries from the left have declared that the GOP is waging a "War on Women." Alternately, the GOP claims the same of the other side. Are women's rights under attack? Can free contraception coverage provided by the state be considered part of women's ri
Kennedy prepared this speech with only a handful of close, trusted aides ,and were careful to keep its contents secret from the national security establishment.
The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s “Enduring Strategic Partnership” [.pdf] agreement with Afghanistan and the memorandums of understanding (MOU) accompanying it emphasize transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. wa
In the last 20 years, there have only been three or four in which the U.S. military wasn’t at war. Now it seemed easier to take the plunge as technology has made it cheaper and easier to project conventional military force, and therefore presidents d
Americans, in particular, embrace the language of liberty, even as the American state itself has become ominously and voraciously antithetical to liberty.
It was virtually impossible to imagine that a request from David Petraeus to Barack Obama for authority to target even more people in Yemen for death, without even knowing who they are, would be quickly and eagerly approved.
Jeremy Scahill is an investigative journalist, public speaker and award winning author. Scahill's work focuses on the use of private military companies. This is his speech given at the Brooklyn Peace Fair on April 28, 2012.
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Today, Time magazine got hold of a memo written by then-CIA head Leon Panetta after he received orders from Barack Obama’s team to greenlight the bin Laden mission. Here’s the text, which summarized the situation:
Protesters in a remote region of Chile have triggered controversy by asking Argentina to "adopt" them because they feel forgotten by Chile's government (Publisher: "I wish my government would forget about me")
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is guilty of "aiding and abetting" forces in Sierra Leone that committed war crimes and other atrocities during a war that lasted more than a decade and left more than 50,000 people dead.
President Obama outlined a series of policies Monday aimed at helping the U.S. government better respond to the threat of genocide around the world, declaring that “national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.”
Are high gas prices the only thing between us and a war with Iran? Is Obama's re-election the reason that we don't find ourselves caught up in another needless mideast war?
Do we have oil speculators to thank for it?
Ever since Congress abrogated their lawful war power authority to declare war, the military industrial complex has embarked on a path of global empire.
We bring to the attention of our readers the response of Israeli poet Itamar Yaoz-Kost to the message of Nobel Laureate Guenter Grass, who warns the World of the dangers of a US Israeli sponsored war on Iran.
The last piece of published writing from one of America's greatest writers was a series of letters he sent back from the front lines of war at the age of 64.
The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived in Afghanistan's Zabol province. The paratroopers posed for photos next to Afghan police, grinning while some held — and others squatted beside — the corpse's severed legs.