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Why the Media Is Ignoring the Afghanistan Papersby Alex Shephard, 12/16/2019 How a Government Censored an NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake, 12/15/2019
The Military's Sci-Fi Fantasy for the Super Bowl of Wars Jeff Groom, 12/15/2019 Deluge of New Leaks Further Shreds the Establishment Syria Narrative Caitlin Johnstone, 12/15/2019
New Leaks Provide Further Evidence Into OPCW Douma Cover Upby Dave DeCamp, 12/15/2019 Afghan Papers Confirm Gold Star Father's Worst Fears Anna Orso, 12/15/2019
Biden Got the Iraq War Wrong at Every Stage.by Spencer Ackerman, 12/15/2019 Lessons From Battling the Pentagon for Four Decadesby William D. Hartung, 12/15/2019
The Generals' Long Con on Afghanistanby Maj. Danny Sjursen (ret.), 12/15/2019 New York Times Enables Trump's Attack on Palestine Solidarityby Michael F. Brown, 12/14/2019
Reject National Defense Authorization Act, Save Yemen Insteadby William Lambers, 12/14/2019 Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires Eric Margolis, 12/14/2019
Where Is the Outrage Over the War in Afghanistan?by Jeet Heer, 12/13/2019 Afghanistan Papers Reveal Core Folly of American Defense Strategyby Matt Taibbi, 12/13/2019
What Do We Do With the Afghanistan Papers?by Jamil Smith, 12/13/2019 The 2020 NDAA: A Rubber Stamp for Warby Kyle Anzalone, 12/13/2019
An FBI-Media Scandal of Historic Magnitude Glenn Greenwald, 12/13/2019 We Have Just Been Handed the Pentagon Papers of Our Generation Maj. Danny Sjursen (ret.), 12/13/2019
Afghanistan Papers Confirm That the Longest War Is a Lie Sonali Kolhatkar, 12/13/2019 America's Unreliable Friends: Today's Allies Are Tomorrow's Enemies Philip Giraldi, 12/13/2019
The Price Our Government Has Paid for Lying About Afghanistan Michael Brendan Dougherty, 12/12/2019 But Mr. Trump, Is Israel Lovable?by Sheldon Richman, 12/12/2019
Military Officials Sent US to Fight, Kill, and Die in an Unwinnable War Maggie Seymour, 12/12/2019 How US Military Leaders Perpetuated the Great Big Lie in Afghanistan James Russell, 12/12/2019
Afghanistan: Oh, When Will We Ever Learn?by Thomas Knapp, 12/12/2019 Those Torture Drawings in the NYT John Kiriakou, 12/12/2019
Why Did the Saudis Kill US Sailors While Three Others Filmed It? Doug Bandow, 12/11/2019 What's Wrong With FISA?by Andrew P. Napolitano, 12/11/2019
The Afghanistan War Is More Than a $1 Trillion Mistake. It's a Travesty Ben Armbruster, 12/11/2019 Trump's New Attack on Campus 'Anti-Semitism' Will Chill Speech Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, 12/11/2019
The Real Lesson From the Afghanistan Papers Adam Wunische, 12/11/2019 The Doves Were Right. I Was Wrong. Conor Friedersdorf, 12/11/2019
'Corroboration Zero': IG Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Jokeby Matt Taibbi, 12/11/2019 Why Do They Hate Us? Jacob G. Hornberger, 12/11/2019
The Most Significant Afghanistan Papers Revelation Is How Difficult They Were to Make Public Caitlin Johnstone, 12/11/2019 JEDI Mind Tricks: Amazon versus the Pentagon and Trumpby Thomas Knapp, 12/11/2019
Soldiers Who Fight Warby John Feffer, 12/11/2019 Can We Impeach the FBI Now? Peter Van Buren, 12/10/2019
Barr Blasts Inspector General for Whitewashing FBIby Ray McGovern, 12/10/2019 I Fought in Afghanistan. Here's How I Am Wrestling With the Lies of the War.by Peter Lucier, 12/10/2019
The Afghanistan Papers Show We Never Learned the Lesson From Vietnamby Vijay Prashad, 12/10/2019 Saudi Murders in Pensacola Revive 9/11's Unanswered Questions Billy Cox, 12/10/2019
The 'Afghanistan Papers' Highlight the Systemic Rot in US Foreign Policy Making Daniel R. DePetris, 12/10/2019 I Knew the War in Afghanistan Was a Lieby Maj. Danny Sjursen (ret.), 12/10/2019
Money, Power, and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Costby Ramzy Baroud, 12/10/2019 Who Spied on Julian Assange? Philip Giraldi, 12/9/2019
5 Infuriating Takeaways From the 'Afghanistan Papers' Barbara Boland, 12/9/2019 Everyone Knew We Were Losing in Afghanistanby David A. Graham, 12/9/2019
Maximum Pressure on Iran Is Driving US Toward Warby Bonnie Kristian, 12/9/2019 Taxpayers Cough Up More for the F-35by Ross Marchand, 12/9/2019
For a New Isolationism by Murray Rothbard, 4/1/59 War is the Health of the State by Randolph Bourne, 1918
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