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Aug 25, 2017

Trump announces thousands more troops, billions of taxpayer dollars to fuel war in Afghanistan

Donald Trump long advocated for a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. On Monday, he commitment thousands more troops and tens of billions more taxpayer dollars to the war.

Podcast

Feb 23, 2012

Pentagon priorities for the 21st century

Redeye

Earlier this year, the Obama administration released a guidance to determine where the Pentagon would put its energy in the foreseeable future.

Podcast

Jan 18, 2012

Use of drones growing dramatically

Redeye

Drones are robotic aircraft that can carry arms but are also for surveillance. Currently one in every three aircraft in the U.S. is a drone and over 50 countries have some form of unmanned aircraft.

Columnists

Jan 12, 2012

Guantanamo Bay after 10 years

Amy Goodman

The hundreds of men who have left Guantanamo this past decade have been released because of pressure on governments from grassroots campaigning. One hundred seventy-one men remain imprisoned there.

Columnists

Aug 31, 2011

Books by Rumsfeld and Cheney are symbols of lies that led to invasion of Iraq

Amy Goodman

Dick Cheney's memoir follows one by his colleague and friend Donald Rumsfeld. As each promotes his own version of history, there are people challenging and confronting them.

Columnists

Jul 13, 2011

The epidemic of soldier and veteran suicides in the U.S.

Amy Goodman

President Barack Obama just announced a reversal of a long-standing policy that denied presidential condolence letters to the family members of soldiers who commit suicide.

Blog

May 14, 2011

The lies used to achieve America's ends

Gerry Caplan

Osama Bin Laden is dead, but every other claim originally made by the Obama administration about his last minutes was a lie. These were deliberate lies concocted by men -- Mr. Obama's men.

Columnists

May 4, 2011

It's time to bring the troops home

Amy Goodman

On May 1, the U.S. president addressed the nation, announcing a military victory. May 1, 2003, that is, when U.S. President George W. Bush strode onto the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln.

Photos

Dec 17, 2010

Wikileaks: Colonial limbo a deliberate attempt to keep islanders from homeland

Clency Lebrasse

Paradise lost for a U.S. military base.

Podcast

Nov 6, 2010

What's in the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history

Redeye

390,000 classified U.S. military documents were released in October through the online whistleblower site Wikileaks. Pratap Chatterjee explains what kind of information the documents contain.

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