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Life in War's Shadow (2001)
by Jon Elliston
Indyweek.com
Pentagon Gluttons
by Charles V. Pena
Antiwar.com
On the Cost of Empire
by Chalmers Johnson
Truthdig.com
The Power Problem
by Carlos Lozada
Washington Post
The US Should Cut Military Spending in Half
by Benjamin H. Friedman
Cato Institute
The Crime That Cannot Be Wiped Away
by Laurence M. Vance
LewRockwell.com
U.S. Military Spending and the Cost of the Wars
by Chris Sturr
Dollars & Sense
Left and Right Against the Military Industrial Complex
by Jon Basil Utley
Foreign Policy in Focus
Seeing Red over Russia?
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Why It Matters that the Army Was on the Streets of Samson, Alabama
by J.D. Tuccille
The Examiner
John Yoo's Evasive Military Maneuvers
by Jacob Sullum
Reason
Squaring the Pentagon
by Doug Bandow
Cato Institute
Military's Budget Is a Threat to Our Country
by Craig Etchison
Cumberland Times-News
Campaign to Close the School of the Americas, Pt. 2 (Video)
The Real News
Close That Murderers Training Camp Now!
Editorial
Siglo 21
War Is a Public Affair
by Bruce Fein
Washington Times
Don't Bet on Obama Reining in Defense Spending
by Benjamin H. Friedman
Cato Institute
An American Foreign Legion
by Tom Engelhardt and William Astore
LewRockwell.com
Will Obama Close the School of the Americas?
by Chris Steele
Examiner.com
Letter to a Christian Young Man Regarding Joining the Military
by Laurence M. Vance
LewRockwell.com
Homeland Offense
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
American Conservative
Crisis Looms at the Pentagon
by Chalmers Johnson
Asia Times
The "Defense Cut" Falsehood from the Washington Post and Robert Kagan
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Close School of Americas
by Kyle Kingma
Mansfield News-Journal
Be Wary of Using Military as Police
by Gene Healy and Benjamin Friedman
Orange County Register
The Pentagon Is Muscling In Everywhere. It's Time to Stop the Mission Creep.
by Thomas A. Schweich
Washington Post
'Analyst' for Hire
by Paul Campos
Rocky Mountain News
Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
by Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post
Domestic Military Response
Editorial
Washington Times
The Ongoing Disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Shut the Doors on a Disgraced Military School
by Marie Dennis
Common Dreams
Scott Horton Interviews Jacob Hornberger
Antiwar Radio
No Recession for Arms Sales
by Frida Berrigan
Foreign Policy in Focus
The Bailout vs. the Defense Budget
by Chalmers Johnson
Truthdig.com
When Refusing to Kill Has a Higher Sentence than Murder
by Ann Wright
Truthout.org
Stalin's Willing Executioners
by Steve Sailer
American Conservative
America's Outrageous War Economy
by Paul B. Farrell
MarketWatch
He Chronicled Russia's Soul
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Our Own Worst Bioenemy
by Wendy Orent
Los Angeles Times
Truth and Other Casualties of War
by Robert Fox
The Guardian
The Military-Industrial Complex: It's Much Later Than You Think
by Chalmers Johnson
Truthdig.com
Having the 'Best Military' Is Not Always a Good Thing
by William J. Astore
Common Dreams
Hitchens's Trotskyite Morality
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Taki's Magazine
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
by Robert Scheer with Amy Goodman
Democracy Now
Man of the Century
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Taki's Magazine
A Moral Burden on U.S. Soldiers
by Adil E. Shamoo
Foreign Policy in Focus
Indefensible Spending
by Robert Scheer
Los Angeles Times
The Mega-Pentagon: A Bush-Enabled Monster We Can't Stop
by Frida Berrigan
Alternet.org
Was World War Two Just as Pointless and Self-Defeating as Iraq?
by Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
How the West Lost the World
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Taki's Magazine
Propaganda and the Military
by Joseph L. Galloway
McClatchy
How the Military Analyst Program Controlled News Coverage
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 U.S. Casualties a Year
by Alexander Cockburn
Counterpunch.org
Brian Williams' "Response" to the Miiltary Analyst Story
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Howard Kurtz on Why Media Outlets Ignore the "Military Analyst" Story
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
TV Military "Analysts" Are Part of What Ike Warned Against
by Nancy Grape
Portland Press Herald
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (2006)
by J. Patrice McSherry
BNET Business Network
Pentagon Spin Taints TV
Editorial
USA Today
Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "Military Analyst" Story
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Embedding Military Propagandists into the News Media
by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
Counterpunch
Media's Refusal to Address the NYT's "Military Analyst" Story Continues
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Propaganda at Home
Editorial
Boston Globe
Behind Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand
by David Barstow
New York Times
Major Revelation: U.S. Media Deceitfully Disseminates Government Propaganda
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida Navy
by Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
Real Security Needs, Not an Arbitrary Baseline, Should Drive the Numbers
by Robert Higgs
Christian Science Monitor
The Bipartisan Consensus on U.S. Military Spending
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Muted Victory for Ehren Watada
by Laura Flanders
The Nation
Big Win for Watada: A Study in Courage and Honor
by Bill Simpich
Truthout.org
The Case of the Angry Colonel
by Farhad Manjoo
Salon.com
The Persecution of Lt. Cmdr. Diaz
by Scott Horton
Harper's Magazine
Making a Killing Out of War
by John Hilary
The Guardian
Pentagon Justice
Editorial
Washington Post
Heroism and the Language of Fascism
by Rosa Brooks
Los Angeles Times
The Army, or the Mafia
Editorial
USA Today
The Good, the Bad, and the Prosecuted
by Rosa Brooks
Los Angeles Times
Held Without Charges
by Clarence Page
Washington Times
SOA: Shut It Down
by Peter Rothberg
The Nation
Deliberate Acts of Deceit
by Kevin Tillman
The Guardian
Public Needs to Know about School of the Americas
by Jack Gilroy
Ithaca Journal
Pentagon Cowers Behind Wordplay
by Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
Why I Fled George Bush's War
by Joshua Key
Maclean's
Lt. Watada an American Hero
by Ryan Elsey
Foreign Policy in Focus
Making Martial Law Easier
Editorial
New York Times
The Army Blinked
by Geov Parrish
WorkingforChange.com
Bush Budget Delivers the Bacon
by Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
A Kangaroo Court Martial: Making an Example of Ehren Watada
by Norman Solomon
Counterpunch.org
War Criminals "R" Us
by Richard Curtis
Common Dreams
At Ease, Mr. President
by Garry Wills
New York Times
Our Mercenaries in Iraq
by Jeremy Scahill
Los Angeles Times
In Cheney's World, We All Report to the Military
by Robyn Blumner
St. Petersburg Times
About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
by Marc Cooper
The Nation
Rethinking the Draft
by Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
Draft Middle-Aged Americans
by Susan Scannell
Detroit Free Press
Dismay Grows Over US Torture School
by Patrick Mulvaney
The Nation
Sgt. Ricky Clousing, Peace Action Hero
by Elizabeth de la Vega and Tom Englehardt
Antiwar.com
The Cost of Doing Your Duty
Editorial
New York Times
Military Recruiters Work Hard to Leave No Child Off Their Lists
by David Goodman
Seattle Times
The American Military's Cult of Cruelty
by Robert Fisk
Counterpunch.org
Reading, Writing, and Recruiting
by David Goodman
Boston Globe
Backdoor Draft
by Charles Peña
AntiWar.com
Rape, Murder, and the American GI
by Robin Morgan
Alternet.org
Relearning Vietnam's Painful Lessons
by J. Caleb Donaldson and Martha Minow
Boston Globe
Lt. Watada's Challenge
by Mike Ferner
Counterpunch.org
With Lt. Watada's Case, GI Resistance Grows
by Sarah Olson
Alternet.org
Collateral Damage Is Murder
by Michael Boldin
Online Journal
Civilian Killings Went Unpunished
by Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson
Los Angeles Times
Beyond My Lai: New Revelations of Vietnam Atrocities
by Jon Wiener
The Nation
Dishonorable Service
Editorial
New York Times
U.S. Reaps What the Army Sows
by David R. Irvine
Salt Lake Tribune
"I Was a Mouthpiece for the American Military"
by Ken Silverstein
Harper's Magazine
Soldiers's Duty: Say No to Illegal War
by Michael Honey
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Army Needs an Independent Prosecutor
by Eric Umansky
Slate
Lieutenant Watada's War Against the War
by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
The Nation
Crimes of War
by Stanley Karnow
Washington Post
"Duty, Honor, Trademark…": Privatizing West Point
by Col. Dan Smith
Counterpunch.org
Of West Point, War and Pizza
by James Ryan
Counterpunch.org
The National Guard and the 2nd Amendment
by Richard A. Cheatham
The Free Liberal
Tillman Death: Army Still Trips Over Cover-Up
by Jay Bookman
CommonDreams.org
A Search for Truth
Editorial
San Francisco Chronicle
True Inquiry Needed in Tillman Death
by Robert Scheer
San Francisco Chronicle
Why We Fight: Thriller-Expose of Corporate Militarism
by Lydia Howell
PulseTC.com
The Shame of the Prisons
Editorial
New York Times
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