Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said Wednesday he’s opposed to a plan from House Republicans to slow the reduction of U.S. forces over the next five years. The House Armed Services Committee included language in the Defense authorization bill to limit troop reductions to 15,000 per year for the Army and 5,000 for [...]

This is Part 2 of an in-depth look at the rebellion in Mali. Tuareg Rebels, known as the blue men of the desert, seized the north of that country in March, throwing a relatively stable nation into chaos. As Susan Zakin explains, the conflict reveals a complex web of culture, ambition and unintended consequences. Read [...]

by Prof. Peter Phillips “Don’t waste any more time or energy on the presidential election than it takes to get to your polling station and pull a lever for a third-party candidate-—just enough to register your obstruction and defiance—and then get back out onto the street. That is where the question of real power is [...]

Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will join thousands of protesters this Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago. We speak to Iraq Veterans Against the War’s Aaron Hughes, who’s among a number of Afghanistan and Iraq war vets planning to return their medals of honor to visiting NATO generals. “[Veterans] have to [...]

Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and the neck-and-neck opinion polls are pouring in. But whether President Obama gets his second term or Romney enters the Oval Office, there’s a third candidate no one’s paying much attention to, and [...]

by Mary Compton, Greater New Haven Peace Council Mother’s Day is our day to celebrate, to resist, to protest and to remember our long history of struggling for human rights. It is a day to remember the cost of war and what it extracts from our families in the name of honor and patriotism, while [...]

Americans typically want more bigger defense budgets until they are informed about how much is actually spent on defense, at which point they overwhelmingly favor cutting military spending by considerable margins, according to a new opinion poll released Thursday. Three-quarters of Americans – about 67 percent of Republicans and 90 percent of Democrats – said [...]

A cycle of overhyped terror plots involving government agency entrapment feeds a multimillion-dollar surveillance industry The news stories, which quickly surface, long enough to cause scary headlines, then vanish before people can learn how often the cases are thrown out. These are stories about “bumbling fantasists”, hapless druggies, the aimless, even the virtually homeless and [...]

Listen to this four-minute clip from the Thom Hartmann Show: http://warisacrime.org/downloads/thomhartmannviolence.mp3 Thom tells his caller to read War Is A Lie: http://warisalie.org But Thom uses brilliant arguments and facts that are not even in the book, which is really the best result an author can hope for: inspiring further thought. There’s also a video of [...]

By Michael Slate and Henry A Giroux, The Michael Slate Show | Interview TRANSCRIPT (This transcript has been edited for clarification.) Michael Slate: Opening up the show I am happy to have as my next guest Henry Giroux. I found Henry’s article, “Henry A. Giroux | Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of [...]