Why We Fight

It's no Kony 2012! I'm enough of a cynic to know that no one learns anything from the past, at least Eugene Jarecki can sleep well knowing he was right. While Jarecki's documentary "Why We Fight" was released in 2005, it (sadly) seems just as fresh as it did seven...

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To Mark This Solemn Day, I’m Having a Luau

Today's hardest-hitting news story: "You'll Never Guess What The Obama Kids' School Is Serving For Lunch Today." Don't care? Well, you should. It's a "heavily Japanese-inspired menu, which includes Asian mushroom and oriental noodle soup, garlic roasted edamame,...

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You Can Be My Wingman Any Time

Here's David Sirota on the Hollywood-Pentagon bromance: In June, the Army negotiated a first-of-its-kind sponsorship deal with the producers of “X-Men: First Class,” backing it up with ads telling potential recruits that they could live out superhero fantasies on...

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Are We Not Zombies?

What do zombies and the military industrial complex have in common? Let us count the ways. In fact, let military strategy & policy professor Michael Vlahos (relation, yes!) take you down that thorny path. Michael writes in Dark Lord, Dark Victory: America's Dark...

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