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Trump Says Financial Situation for Americans Not a Factor in His Decision Making on Iran War

Report: Saudi Arabia Bombed Iraqi Militias During US-Isra.... Xi Warns Trump That Differences Over Taiwan Could Lead to.... Israeli Forces Use Robots to Expand Offensive North of Le...

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Trump Shares Post Calling for the Killing of Iranian Leaders Who Won't Accept US Demands

Katz: Israel Waiting for US 'Green Light' To Attack Iran,.... Trump Continues Yemen Drone War With Virtually No Media A.... Cost of Iran War Not Included in Pentagons $1.5 Trillion ...

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Israeli DM Says All of South Lebanon Will Be Occupied, Villages Leveled 'In Accordance With Gaza'

"The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again - Much more to follow!" the president wrote on Truth Social. "IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE I...

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Two Republicans who previously voted to advance the bill flipped after pressure from Trump

Vice President JD Vance had to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate on Wednesday night to kill a Venezuela War Powers Resolution that sought to prevent another US attack on th...

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Family Members of 9/11 Victims Tell Biden to Return Frozen Funds to Afghans

A group of family members of 9/11 victims has sent a letter to President Biden urging him to return the $7 billion in frozen Afghan reserves held by the US Federal Reserve to th...

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Biden Aide: 'Highly Unlikely' Iran Nuclear Deal Will Be Revived Soon

Efforts continue to be made on the Iran nuclear talks, with Iran reportedly ready to put forward some new ideas on the process, and the EU trying to speed up finalization.

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How To End the War in Ukraine?

Given the devastating effects of this war, first in Ukraine but also, through sanctions, on the world economy and the risks of famine that they entail, it seems obvious that the...

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Without Evidence, US Claims Russia Planning 'Propaganda Video' as Pretext to Invade Ukraine

The US is continuing its baseless claims against Russia and is now accusing Moscow of planning to stage a false flag in eastern Ukraine by making a "propaganda video" showing a...

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Blinken Says Only a 'Few Weeks' Left to Revive Iran Deal, Warns of ‘Other Options’

"We’re very, very short on time. The runway is very short," Blinken said. He claimed Iran is getting close to being able to produce "enough fissile material for a nuclear weap...

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US Militarism Should Have Died With the Soviet Union

It is no accident that Julian Assange, the digital transparency activist and journalist who founded WikiLeaks to help whistleblowers tell us what western governments are really...

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Joe Biden, Let's Not Go to War

But maybe it is time for America's rulers to take Russian worries into consideration. Even for those of us who are no fans of Vladimir Putin and the government he runs, this see...

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Dispensing With Indispensability: The US Failed To Improve the World

Israeli military officials continued their threats against Iran Tuesday, warning that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are "accelerating" plans to attack the Islamic Republic ...

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Pentagon Investigates Itself, Claims No Wrongdoing in Kabul Drone Strike That Slaughtered 10 Civilians

The drone strike targeted 43-year-old Zemari Ahmadi, an aid worker employed by a US-based NGO, killing him and nine of his family members. US officials initially claimed the str...

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Biden Says United States Would Come to Taiwan's Defense

An assistant to a senior Middle East official on Biden's National Security Council said the administration had given "assurances" to the US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria that t...

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Time for Washington To Stop Sanctioning the World: US Arrogance Leaves Trail of Innocent Victims Behind

The "Lift Sanctions, Save Lives" network is lobbying Congress to do what it should have done years ago: assess the impact of economic sanctions now routinely applied to ally as ...

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How the 'Self Licking Ice Cream Cone,' Prolonged the 20 Year War

There is a rapidly growing political demand for making American officials accountable for the failures of the Afghanistan War, with a focus now on the military leadership and to...

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Top Generals Didn't Want Biden to Withdraw From Afghanistan

Pentagon leaders testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday on the Afghanistan withdrawal, and two top generals said they thought the US should not have left t...

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Pentagon Paid the Arms Industry at Least $4.4 Trillion Since 9/11

Brown University's Costs of War Project released a new report Monday detailing post-9/11 spending by the Pentagon. The study found that of the over $14 trillion spent by the Pe...

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Afghanistan Collapse Reveals Beltway Media's Loyalty to Permanent War State

In the wake of a remarkably successful Taliban offensive capped by the takeover of Kabul, the responses of corporate media provided what may have been the most dramatic demonstr...

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US Continues to Warn of Potential ISIS Attack in Kabul

As the US has been evacuating people from the Kabul airport, US officials have warned of a potential attack from the local ISIS affiliate, known as ISIS-K, a sworn enemy of the ...

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In a World Aflame, an Antiwar Movement Is Needed More Than Ever

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is not likely to be long remembered. It was essentially a sham state, with a corrupt and incompetent government, which deployed a faux milita...

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What Is a Winning Foreign Policy? Being the Planet's Imperial Guardian, Apparently

With an increasingly enfeebled Joe Biden as president, Republicans are on the attack. The GOP has abandoned virtually every moral principle that it once defended, but the desire...

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Biden's Foreign Policy Failures

On Monday, President Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi agreed that the US "combat" mission in Iraq will be over by the end of the year, but US troops will rema...

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The War Lobby Believes Washington Should Represent Everyone Except Americans

The US military bombed Somalia on Tuesday, marking the first official US airstrike in the country of the Biden administration. The Pentagon said the strike targeted al-Shabaab a...

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Another Failed 20-Year War: America vs. Somalia

Anyone who served in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan may likely now know more friends killed by suicide than killed by the Taliban or by Iraqi insurgents. The same possibly for ve...

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Report: Afghanistan Withdrawal Complete for 'All Intents and Purposes'

The official said currently, about 600 US troops remain in Afghanistan. Most of the troops are Marine Corps or Army personnel who will stay at the US embassy in Kabul. The rest ...

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Federal Authorities Are Using 'Disinformation' as a Pretext To Silence Foreign Policy Dissent

Former Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) died yesterday at 91. He was a major hero of the antiwar movement several times over.

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US Could Slow Afghanistan Withdrawal Over Taliban Gains

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Monday suggested that the US is considering slowing down the pace of the Afghanistan withdrawal due to gains made by the Taliban in recent fig...

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Biden Joins Long Line of Presidents to 'Woefully' Undercount Civilians Killed in US Wars

Human rights defenders on Wednesday accused the Biden administration of joining its predecessors in undercounting the number of civilians killed during US wars, as the latest an...

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Memorial Day: US Nuclear-Capable Bombers, NATO Warplanes Fly Over All 30 NATO Nations in One Day

U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa announced that American B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers accompanied by military aircraft from twenty-one other NATO nation...

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Afghanistan: Nearly 1,600 Child Casualties in Airstrikes Over Past Five Years

Almost 1,600 children were killed or wounded in airstrikes in Afghanistan over the past five years, according to a report from Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).

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Asking and Analyzing Questions Others Won’t: Support Antiwar.com in Forever War Year 20

Spend much time on the pages of America's self-styled "paper," or papers, "of record," and one quickly learns the permissibility ropes - Biden-era edition: what is and isn't cov...

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How We End the Forever War

The US is deploying additional forces to Afghanistan and the surrounding regions to aid in President Biden's plan to withdraw all combat troops by September 11th.

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Biden Declares National Emergency: US and NATO Brand Russia an International Pariah

The thirty-member North Atlantic Council, the political decision-making body of NATO consisting of the ambassadors of all member states, posted a statement supporting the Joe Bi...

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Top US/NATO Commander Prepared to Use 'Full Weight of the Transatlantic Alliance' Against Russia and China

Next year's National Defense Authorization Act will include a base budget of $715 billion and a total allotment of $753 billion, in nominal dollars the largest military expendit...

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Get Out of Afghanistan!

Last month, US Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) trained members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during live-fire attack helicopter exercis...

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Counting the Costs of the Libyan War Ten Years Later

President Biden vowed that he would not allow China to become the world's "

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Six Years Later, Yemen Is Still Being Starved

In an effort to stay relevant, NATO is following the US and turning its eyes on China. In rather candid comments, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the "rise" of Chi...

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'This Is Hell': UN Food Chief Visits Yemen as Children Starve

The head of the UN's World Food Program (WFP) visited Yemen and described the conditions he saw in the country to reporters as "hell." His visit comes as the UN is warning 400,0...

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Report: US Preparing Cyberattack Against Russia Over SolarWinds Hack

According to a report from The New York Times, the Biden administration is planning cyberattacks against Russia in the coming weeks. The cyber offensive could come with new sa...

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White House Falsely Claims US Does Not Sanction World Leaders In Response to Criticism Over MbS

In defending the US decision not to take action against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, White House Press Secretary Je...

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We've Gone a Year Without a Combat Death in Afghanistan - Will Biden Break the Streak?

February 9th marked the first time in nearly two decades that the U.S. military went one full year without a trooper killed in Afghanistan action. Now, with newly minted Presi...

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UN: At Least 400,000 Yemeni Children Under Five Could Starve to Death in 2021

The UN warned on Friday that at least 400,000 children in Yemen could die of starvation this year if the war doesn’t end and aid does not reach areas suffering severe food s...

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Pentagon Says Date for Afghan Pullout Uncertain, Is Biden Rethinking Peace?

Questions about how US foreign policy is going to shake out between President Trump and President Biden have been the subject of a lot of speculation, and Afghanistan looks to b...

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Pompeo Accuses Iran of al-Qaeda Ties

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed without evidence that Iran is al-Qaeda's "new home base," recycling an old talking point of an al-Qaeda-Iran alliance that has...

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Pentagon Officials Divided Over Threat of an Iranian Attack

After weeks of warnings from US and Israeli officials about possible Iranian attacks, some Pentagon officials are downplaying the threat.

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Joe Biden Calls For ‘Modernizing’ US Defenses to Face Russia and China

In a speech on Monday, Joe Biden stressed the need for "modernizing" US defense capabilities in the face of threats from China and Russia. Biden also addressed the recently disc...

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Biden’s Chief of Staff Says Response to Hack Will Go Beyond Sanctions

The incoming White House chief of staff for Joe Biden said on Sunday that the next administration’s response to a recently discovered cyberattack that targeted several governm...

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Report: Trump Gives Hawks Free Rein to Hammer Iran

According to a report from The Daily Beast, President Trump has given his most hawkish advisors free rein to squeeze Iran as much as possible in the final weeks of his adminis...

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CNN: Military Expecting Order for Troop Drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan

According to a report from CNN, US military commanders are expecting an order from President Trump to begin further troop withdrawals in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Report: US Plans to Sanction Iran Every Week Until Biden's Inauguration

According to a report from Axios, the Trump administration is coordinating with Israel and several Gulf states to slap sanctions on Iran every week until Joe Biden is inaugur...

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US Sending Coast Guard Cutters to the Western Pacific to Counter China

National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said on Friday that the US is deploying Coast Guard ships to the western Pacific to counter China. O’Brien accused China of harass...

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US Wasted Billions of Taxpayer Dollars in Afghanistan From 2018 to 2019

The 19-year-old war in Afghanistan continues to be a huge sinkhole for US taxpayer dollars. The US government’s oversight authority that monitors waste in Washington’s Afgha...

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US Plan: Weapons Anywhere on Earth in One Hour

The US military is partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop a rocket that can travel at 7,500 miles per hour and deliver 80 tons of cargo anywhere in the world in 60 mi...

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US Special Ops Using Secret Drone Missiles in Northwest Syria

Earlier this month, the US assassinated a leader of an al-Qaeda offshoot group in Syria’s Idlib Province, in the country’s northwest. The strike was carried out using a dro...

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Boeing CEO Confident in Military Spending No Matter Who Wins November Election

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that President Trump has approved of a plan to withdraw about 12,000 US troops from Germany, a move Trump directly tied to long-standing com...

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Remember When America Killed Moscow’s Soldiers

The New York Times published a story on Friday that said the National Intelligence Council recently produced a memo regarding allegations of Russian GRU agents paying bounties t...

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Remember America’s Great Kosovo Ally? Never Mind the War Crimes!

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the National Security Agency “strongly dissented from other intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia paid bounties fo...

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Netanyahu, Gantz At Odds Over Annexation Plans

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the National Security Agency “strongly dissented from other intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia paid bounties fo...

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Even worse it provides the excuse for the further use of emergency tactics by police and could end up being cited to put the U.S. military on American streets. Already at least ...

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Over a week of chaos at Bardar Abbas, a key Iranian port on the Strait of Hormuz, has been explained as resulting from an Israeli cyberattack on the port’s terminal, crippling...

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Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)

US warships are being sent regularly through the South China Sea to challenge Chinese maritime claims, and warplanes did recent overflights over the area. Defense Secretary Mark...

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Take Rights Seriously, Even During a Pandemic

With the world in the throes of the calamitous COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres is pushing for a global ceasefire, seeing a planet-wide halt to war as a...

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The US-Taliban peace deal in Afghanistan is a hopeful opportunity to end the US occupation of Afghanistan after 19 years. Persistent concerns, however, are that secret annexes t...

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White House Justifies Killing Soleimani for Past Actions, not Imminent Threats

In a vote of 55-45, the Senate passed the Iran War Powers Resolution on Thursday afternoon, setting out opposition to any unauthorized war with Iran, and instructing the preside...

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The move comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in September that federal law prohibits law enforcement agencies from maintaining records describing Fi...

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The Donald’s Assassination of General Soleimani –

US officials have confirmed that they were given advance notice Tuesday night before Iranian missile strikes against bases hosting US troops, part of what is seen as a concerted...

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On November 27, US president Donald Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.

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Trump Issues Pardons in War Crimes Cases

In a move seen as a further blow to Palestinian hopes for statehood, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the US is repudiating the 1978 State Department legal o...

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Saudi Bases and the Bin Ladens: A Love Story

The Pentagon intends to retain control of Syria’s oilfields going forward, and says they will repel anyone else trying to take that oil with “overwhelming force.” This has...

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War Without Justification

Following a weekend deal with the Kurdish YPG to assume defensive responsibility for the cities of Manbij and Kobane, the Syrian Army has rushed northward into the area, setting...

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Yemen’s Houthis Claim an Assault on Southern Saudi Arabia

The Houthis of Yemen claimed they completed a successful assault near the southern region of Najran, Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The Houthi’s military spokesman said “three ...

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Profiles in Absurdity: Remembering the ‘Terror’ Wars

Ruling comes after a eight-year battle over secret surveillance of the popular website after 9/11.

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Preliminary US-Taliban Deal Reached; 5,000 US Troops Would Leave Afghanistan in Five Months

US negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad has reported that the US and Taliban have a peace deal “in principle” now, and that it is just pending approval from President Trump. The Afgh...

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Throughout August, one of the most persistent stories has been the claim that ISIS is making a substantial recovery in Iraq and Syria, a claim based on a single Pentagon report ...

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having announced Monday night that sanctions have grown to an economic embargo

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