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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
Shameful: This Is the World's View on Guantanamo
by Francis Elliott and Raymond Whitaker
The Independent
The War Machine Keeps on Humming
by Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
Why We Fight
by Karen Kwiatkowski
LewRockwell.com
Why We Fight: Go See the Movie
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
"Why We Fight": A Sobering Look at the Military-Industrial Complex
by Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
What's a Christian Soldier to Do?
by Laurence M. Vance
LewRockwell.com
Iraqi Voices Are Drowned Out in a Blizzard of Occupier's Spin
by Sami Ramadani
The Guardian
How U.S. Used Iraqi Wives for "Leverage"
MSNBC
An Unhappy Anniversary
by Eugene Jarecki
Huffington Post
Just How Big Is the Defense Budget?
by Winslow T. Wheeler
Counterpunch.org
A General's Dishonor
Editorial
Washington Post
A Hero Scorned
Editorial
USA Today
Hugh Thompson and My Lai
by Clancy Sigal
Counterpunch.org
It's Dirty Tricks All Over Again
by Arianna Huffington
Los Angeles Times
Gen. Eisenhower Got It Right
by Jim Johnson
Detroit Free Press
Posse Comitatus: Remembering Why
by Alan Bock
Antiwar.com
Prisoner Abuse: Brass Whistle
Editorial
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bush Administration in No Hurry to Stop Detainee Abuse
by Robyn Blumner
Salt Lake Tribune
The Buck Stops with Lynndie
by Derrick Z. Jackson
Boston Globe
U.S. Has Sanctioned Torture for Too Long
by Jennifer K. Harbury
Newsday
Rough Draft
by Roderick T. Beaman
Ether Zone
The Unjust Detention of Jose Padilla
by Joanne Mariner
Findlaw.com
Informants Decide Fate of Iraqi Detainees
by Jonathan Finer
Washington Post
Abu Ghraib, Unresolved
Editorial
New York Times
After the Fall
by Ursula Hegi
Washington Post
Military Academies and Sex Abuse: 15 Years of Failures
Editorial
USA Today
They Shall Be Released
by Ari Berman
The Nation
The Military's Parent Problem
by Margaret Carlson
Los Angeles Times
An Army Affair
Editorial
Washington Post
Hiroshima Film Cover-Up Exposed
by Greg Mitchell
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