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Changes at Parchin Suggest an Iranian Bargaining Ploy
satellite images show activities appearing to be aimed at prompting the IAEA, the United States and Israel to give greater urgency and importance to a request for an IAEA …
The Almost Scoop on Nixon’s “Treason“
In late October 1968, Beverly Deepe, a 33-year-old Saigon correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, came upon a story that could have changed history. A six-year veteran covering the …
Colin Powell: Another War Criminal Cashes In
One could be forgiven for thinking thereu2019s anything honorable or honest about Colin Powell. For more than two decades now the Washington media has portrayed the former Secretary of …
Four Decades Ago, a Senator Warned About the Revolving Door of the Military-Industrial Complex
There are scores of former government officials working in the nuclear weapons lobby, providing it with special access to the government that it otherwise would not have.
Suicides Outpacing War Deaths for Troops
Suicides have increased even as the United States military has withdrawn from Iraq and stepped up efforts to provide mental health, drug and alcohol, and financial counseling services.
A Guantanamo Connection? Documents Show CIA Stockpiled Antimalaria Drugs as “Incapacitating Agents“
Was mefloquine used at Guantanamo to help produce a state of
Praying at the Church of St. Drone: The President and His Apostles
Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an …
Yes, Virginia, We Can Do Something About the Drone Strikes
There's a conventional wisdom in Washington that there's nothing we can do politically to stop the US government from killing innocent civilians with drone strikes.
Don’t Thank Me for My Service
Now, that is not something for which a person should be proud nor thanked. In fact, it is regrettable, and for me a source of guilt and shame, something …
Medea Benjamin on How Drones May Be Used Against US Citizens Soon
By 2011, American officials were already publicly fretting that the technology they have spent decades and billions of dollars developing is beginning to fall into the hands of other …