The reporting on the U.S. army casualties in the recent downing of a Chinook helicopter by Taliban insurgents is, to put it kindly, inappropriate. Thirty soldiers were killed in the largest single incident of U.S. casualties to date. It is a tragedy, but it deserves a...

Via Peter Van Buren, this recent study of medical records kept at Guantanamo Bay concludes: The findings in these nine cases from GTMO indicate that medical doctors and mental health personnel assigned to the DoD neglected and/or concealed medical evidence of...

The anecdote is a useful device in broadcast journalism. To illustrate the ongoing recession and a recent spike in unemployment, NBC Nightly News made the effort, as they've done a million times before, to expose their viewers to the reality of the economic struggle...

Moqatda al-Sadr, the Shia, anti-imperialism cleric, just announced that American "trainers" will be targeted if they stay in Iraq behind the 2011 withdrawal deadline. Barring a 180 degree shift in Barack Obama's foreign policy, American troops will stay in Iraq for...

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One tribal sheik, Youseff Ahmad, spoke about the debate about the future role of United States forces here that has dominated Iraqi public life of late. “We want them to leave, even before the end of this year,” Mr. Ahmad said. “They’ve destroyed us. They’ve only...

So what could really go wrong with an Air Force class that says nuclear war is moral and righteous -- because the bible tells us so? Well for 20 years no one had said a peep. But after a number of complaints by Air Force officers and a Truthout article last week by...

If you're up for reading a dutifully deceptive article on foreign aid, check what the Washington Post has to say about it. Recognition for the biggest lie in the article goes to this lovely little number: At least since the end of World War II, foreign aid’s explicit...