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Pentagon Secrecy Around Covid-19 at Guantanamo Just One More Reason to Shut Offshore Prison, Say Senate Dems

'What a Disgrace': Pentagon Weighing $2.2 Billion in Cuts to Military Healthcare Just After Passage of $740 Billion Budget

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The Trump administration is always looking for ways to cut your healthcare, regardless of who you are, where you live, or what you do."

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Citing Fears of a Defeated Trump Who Won't Go Willingly, Warren Calls on Cabinet Officials to End Deployment of Federal Agents Against Protests

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"This is an urgent matter for American democracy and for the safety of...

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1,250 Former DOJ Officials Demand Investigation Into Barr's Involvement in Violently Dispersing Demonstrators Near White House

Julia Conley, staff writer

"None of us would ever have considered directing or engaging in such actions to...

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An activist with a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump marches with a model of a nuclear rocket during a demonstration against nuclear weapons on November 18, 2017 in Berlin.

80 Lawmakers Demand Trump Ditch Any Thought of Resuming 'Dangerously Provocative' Nuclear Tests

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is leading a bill to curb the president's power under the Insurrection Act of 1807.

Dems Introduce Bill to Curb President's Insurrection Act Powers After Trump Threatens to Send Troops to Cities Across US

ACLU Sues Trump Over 'Shameless, Unconstitutional, Unprovoked, and Frankly Criminal' Assault on Protesters

President Donald Trump walks with Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and others from the White House to visit St. John's Church on June 1, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

AFL-CIO's Veteran Council Demands Resignation of Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs Chair Over Violent Clearing of Lafayette Square

'What Authoritarianism Looks Like': Trump Condemned as Busloads of US Soldiers Arrive in Nation's Capital

Sen. Warren Demands Federal Probe Into Attorney General Barr's Order to Tear-Gas Peaceful Protesters

'We Need to Put Guardrails in Place': Senator Unveils Plan to Bar Use of US Military Force Against Protesters

'This Isn't a Healthy Democracy': Warnings of Domestic Military Threat as Top US General Walks DC Streets in Combat Fatigues

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves after a press briefing at the State Department on May 20, 2020.

Lavish Taxpayer-Funded Dinners Hosted by Pompeo Spark Concern Over Real Purpose

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks at a coronavirus task force during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC on March 2, 2020.

Nation's Fractured Public Health System Under Trump 'Woefully Unprepared' for Coronavirus, Nurses and Experts Warn

'A Travesty and a Disgrace': Trump Quietly Issues Memo That Could Abolish Union Rights for 750,000 Federal Workers

An F-15E Strike Eagle from Bagram Air Base deploys flares over Afghanistan Nov. 12, 2008.

'An Admission of Colossal Failure': US Dropped Record Number of Bombs on Afghanistan in 2019

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Jeffrey C. Isaac

We Must Be Prepared to Nonviolently Defend a Democratic Election in the Streets

John Feffer

What Will Trump Do to the World to Win Re-Election?

Andrea Mazzarino

A Naval Officer's Spouse on Why the US Military Puts Empire Over Public Health

Michael T. Klare

A World of "Killer Robots" But Not "National Security"

Thea Paneth

Reflection on the Upcoming 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Nikola Mikovic

What Do Russian Analysts Make of the Charge Moscow Offered Taliban Bounties on US Troops?

Mandy Smithberger

Covid-19 Means Good Times for the Pentagon

George A. Lopez

Targeting the ICC: Misguided Sanctions Imposed Yet Again

Juan Cole

From Fallujah to Minneapolis: Trump Brings the US Military 'Battlespace' Home

Danny Sjursen

The Coming of a Social-Distancing Version of War