Most conservatives in the House and Senate are big hypocrites. They claim allegiance to attacking the deficit but can never find their cutting scissors when the funding for the Department of Defense climbs up on the table.
YouthRadio.org | Rachel Krantz | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
A Youth Radio investigation has found that between 2004 and 2006, sailors in the U.S. Navy's Bahrain Military Working Dogs Division, or "The Kennel," ...
Politics Daily | David Wood | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
They are the invisible casualties of this war, the 2,194 Americans who have been badly wounded in battle here. More are coming. Stunned, torn and ble...
David Sirota | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Video games don't encourage individuals to be violent as much as they legitimize the broader concept of violence as acceptable. That's particularly true when the military embraces that theory.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Public distaste for the Afghanistan War can easily make it Obama's Vietnam -- history should serve as a warning for him.
Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
Even in the West, few believe any longer in the rhetoric that foreign troops are in Afghanistan primarily to rescue Afghan women from their oppressive culture and their tribal menfolk.
Kate Kelly | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
Presidential debates are a relatively recent phenomenon, originally suggested in 1956 by a University of Maryland student by the name of Fred A. Kahn. I spoke with him about a month ago.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
If you haven't seen them, some clever folks started showing up at these town hall protests with faux signs that make light of these Fox-fed people ranting and raving about Nazis and whatnot.
Jon Soltz | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
If government-run insurance and care is so evil and so horrible, then why do conservatives keep supporting leaving America's troops and veterans in that kind of system?
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
We are pouring lives and billions down the drain all over the world and money could accomplish a whole lot more with less expense and fewer (or even no) lost lives.
Doug Bandow | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Washington is spending more today on its military now than it did when the U.S. was confronting the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, Maoist China, and assorted Third World autocracies. Whatever could justify such outlays?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
The point man in Congress on overturning a law banning openly gay people from serving in the military predicted on Friday that the repeal would come s...
Randall Amster | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Despite the gains reflected today in the legal and cultural shifts, we are still embroiled in military conflicts that appear long-term and intractable.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
In essence, if we avoided a disproportionate response, we would be doing what I believe we should have done after 9/11. We didn't and look what happened.
Hal Donahue | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
European and other nations' healthcare is being attacked as a failure. This is not a misunderstanding; it is a lie.
The Uptake | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
You may have heard that "Obamacare" will euthanize Grandma and force you to lose your medicare coverage. You may have heard that veterans will lose co...
Jon Soltz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
There are only three combat vets left. We need more because the values that war veterans learn, that they operate under, and that they carry with them after military life could help Capitol Hill.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
As it prepares to expand training operations at Ft. Irwin in the Mojave Desert, the U.S. Army is again proposing to move more than 1,100 threatened Ca...
William Hartung | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, have called for nuclear disarmament. But no president in the nuclear age has spoken of it as often as Barack Obama.
Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.01.2009 | World
U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan have increased every year since 2001. In every year since systematic civilian casualty data collection started, civilian casualties caused by pro-government have increased.
Chalmers Johnson | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Few empires of the past voluntarily gave up their dominions in order to remain independent, self-governing polities. If we do not learn from their examples, our decline and fall is foreordained.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment
What's an anti-violence parent/babysitter to do? Isn't there a kids' movie out there that's fun and adventurous while advocating non-violence?
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
No matter how one feels about the recent events in Honduras that saw the elected president, Manuel Zelaya arrested and then deported, the word "departed" does not describe his removal.
AFP | Posted 08.25.2009 | World
The US military in Afghanistan has stopped releasing figures showing how many militants have been killed in fighting with US-led forces, officials sai...
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
Operation Heroes and Hounds is a way to support the men and women who served our country, and give a second chance to the animals who ended up in shelters through no fault of their own.
Steve Cobble | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics