What do you stand for?
Today, the United States presides over a burgeoning empire — not only the “empire of bases” first described by Chalmers Johnson, but…
Nick Turse
Nick Turse is an American investigative journalist, historian, and author. He is the associate editor and research director of the blog TomDispatch and a fellow at The Nation
Those young years can be hard ones. The acne, the awkwardness, the angst. That may be one reason why, if you’re between…
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The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day…
In the first installment of this series, I offered 42 names to begin what now seems an endless — and ever-growing —…
[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: What we were dealing with in Washington was a virtual cult of the presidency and that its believers…
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When you think of food and the U.S. Army, what do you picture? Long chow lines with a grunt serving up chipped…