Bush failure allowed 9/11 attack
It has been thoroughly documented that 9/11 was entirely foreseeable ... including Al Qaeda's plans to fly planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Confessions of a Former Republican
I grew up in a rich, white suburb north of Chicago populated by moderate, business-oriented Republicans. Once upon a time, we would have been called Rockefeller Republicans
Republicans Want Veterans to Just Trust Them Because…
the GOP budget proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan doesn't even mention veterans.
“Defense Act is unconstitutional”
the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the…
Occupy Our Fears of Iran
U.S. behavior long ago provided one causal context for our unease about the presumed nuclear aspirations of the Islamic Republic of Iran: the U.S. and Britain messed with Iran’s last…
OpEdNews Bold and Daring: The Way Progressive News Should Be
Todays collection of articles in the OpEd News point at a difficult year ahead. Not the least of our problems is ten months of political campaigning. Keep looking here to…
Project on Government Oversight
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program faces a bevy of serious issues that have the potential to further drive up costs and to significantly add to delays to the…
News from “The Nation”
The US leaves a wake of destruction behind after more than eight years of brutality.
Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes
The tribunal ruled that Bush and Blair’s name should be entered in a register of war criminals, urged that they be recognized as such under the Rome Statute,
Udall, 7 Other Senators Introduce Burn Pit Amendment to Help Veterans
Defense Authorization Amendment Creates Registry for Open-Air Burn Pit Victims