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DOD Wants $70 Billion More for Wars

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The White House will ask Congress next week for another $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an amount that would help...

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My Pet Goat II: President Sticks To His Story Even As Military Crumbles Around Him

Bobby Muller | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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Simple morality, and sense of decency, demands a change. We cannot continue taking such gross advantage of those who have offered themselves in service to our country.

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Investigate the Pentagon's Strait of Hormuz Scandal

Gareth Porter | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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Could the White House have been taken in by reports from overeager commanders in the Gulf who sent panicky reports with an exaggerated sense of threat from Iranian boats?

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Bush's Incredible Invisible Veto: Veterans Caught in the Middle Again

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

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Vital new programs for returning troops are going to be put on hold while Congress and the president play games.

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Pentagon Says Threat May Not Have Come From Iranian Boats

Think Progress | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

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Earlier this week, the Pentagon said that three of its Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz had been harassed and provoked by Iranian speedboats. The Na...

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Group Alleges U.S. Soldiers Pressured To Adopt Fundamentalist Christianity

Associated Press | John Milburn | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

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A foundation that has sued the military alleging widespread violations of religious freedom said Tuesday that it has evidence showing that soldiers ar...

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Gang-Bangers Banned From Military

Wired | Noah Shachtman | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

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A new bill passed by Congress means you can no longer be a member of the military and a member of a gang at the same time. The 2008 Defense authoriza...

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The GOP Iraq War: Follow the Money

Dan Agin | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

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That $475 billion for the Grand Old Party Iraq War did not get burned up in a bonfire, it just moved into the private bank accounts of defense contractor and subcontractor executives and shareholders.

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Introducing The American Veterans And Servicemembers Survival Guide

Bobby Muller | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

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The Survival Guide will help current servicemembers navigate through DoD programs and will help veterans with critical issues like re-employment rights and homeless veterans programs.

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Trial By Fire Hose

Robert Koehler | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

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When a few kids in peace T-shirts are able to scare up the racism of past generations and expose theirrationality that constitutes the public's support of war, we may again be witnessing the beginning of change.

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A New Mission for Diplomats?

Johanna Mendelson Forman | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

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The asymmetry of funds between our national security and development accounts provides few alternatives to our leaders when they must move quickly to stabilize a region.

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Mitt Romney is Thinking of a Number

Chris Kelly | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

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Mitt Romney celebrated Veterans Day with a message. A promise. A pledge: To cut veterans' hospitals, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare and spend the money on weapons.

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From Vietnam Veterans' Memorial to 'You No Longer Have a Healthcare Provider'

Hal Donahue | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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While the public supports our fallen, the community's feelings for the wounded and injured among us are much more complex and nowhere as strong.

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Guantánamo Suicides: So Who's Telling the Truth?

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics

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Sixteen months after the first deaths, it is surely time for the investigators of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to deliver their verdict.

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New Documents Reveal Expanded Military Role In Domestic Surveillance

The Body Politik | Igor Volsky | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

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The ACLU is reporting that the Department of Defense improperly collaborated with the FBI and issued "hundreds of national security letters (NSLs) to ...

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