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Senate Narrowly Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution

The Senate narrowly defeated a War Powers Resolution on Thursday that would have directed President Trump to end the war with Iran, though the vote doesn't negate the Iran War P...

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Israel's Ben Gvir Unveils Plan To Remove All Palestinians From Gaza

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday unveiled a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza's Palestinian population, which he and other Israeli ministers re...

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White House Planning to Reactivate Civil War-Era Court to Accelerate Theft of Iranian Oil

The US Justice Department is preparing to reactivate prize courts to "adjudicate the disposition of [Iranian] captured vessels and cargo." Bloomberg reported speaking with an at...

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Pentagon Admits To Committing Major Civilian Massacres in Yemen Last Year

Pentagon Drafting New Nuclear Strategy To Expand Options .... Hegseth Says Congress Should Pay Tribute to Lindsey Graha.... Influential Retired IDF General Says Gaza Should Remain ...

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US Strike on Home in Iran's Qeshm Kills Father, Mother, and Their Two-Year-Old Child: Iranian Media

The Death Count Trap: Why Tallying Victims Won't Stop Isr.... Joint US-Saudi Strikes on Iraq Kill 20 PMF Fighters. Bedouins With A-Bombs

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Report: US Believed Israel Wanted To Kill Iran's Araghchi and Ghalibaf During April Negotiations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon on Tuesday and vowed that Israeli troops will not be withdrawing anytime soon.

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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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Report: Trump Advisors Want Israel To Attack Iran First To Provoke Iranian Retaliation Against US Assets

President Trump has assembled the largest concentration of U.S. Air and Naval power in the Middle East since Iraq was attacked in 2003.

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Rep. Ro Khanna To Force a Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution Next Week

"Trump officials say there's a 90% chance of strikes on Iran. He can't without Congress," Khanna wrote on X. "[Massie] & I have a War Powers Resolution to debate & vote on war b...

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Netanyahu Officially Joins 'Board of Peace' During US Visit as His Forces Continue Killing Palestinians in Gaza

1953 Redux - Neocons Want To Saddle Iran With the Son of .... Member of Trump's 'Religious Liberty Commission' Removed .... Trump Should Revive the JCPOA To Prevent War With Iran

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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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Pentagon Says Ukraine Will Survive and the US Will Arm It for Years to Come

On Monday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said Pentagon leaders believe the state of Ukraine will survive Russia’s invasion and that the US is preparing to arm the...

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US Sending Ukraine Advanced Rocket Systems as Part of $700 Million Weapons Package

The Pentagon announced Wednesday a new $700 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes advanced rocket systems with a range of up to 50 miles, marking a significant esc...

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Henry Kissinger Says Ukraine Should Cede Territory to Russia to Achieve Peace

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Monday said that Ukraine should cede to Russia the territory Moscow and the Donbas separatists controlled before invading to end the...

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The US-Russia Commitment Gap: And Its Tragic Potential

In other words, Russia has demonstrated a will, and deployed military capacity, to win - and win fast - if this thing goes hot, that America and its divided, and oft-impotent, N...

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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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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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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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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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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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Biden's Top Asia Official Says US Engagement With China Is Over

The White House's top official for Asia said on Wednesday that the era of US engagement with China is over, and now, the two countries' relationship will be defined by competition.

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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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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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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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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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US Flies B-52s as 'Show of Force' Against Iran

Exemplifying US hostility toward Iran, America carries out B-52 overflights of the region with increased regularity, often twice a month. The US Central Command issued a state...

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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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The Right Side of History: Support Antiwar.com – Truth’s Quarter-Century Treasure Trove

Diverse in interests, expertise, and no doubt style – but always aligned on rejecting empire – it’s been a cast of characters that’s hard to match. I’m a relative late...

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Joe Biden’s Interventionist Secretary of State Pick

On Monday, Joe Biden announced he will nominate his long-time advisor Anthony Blinken to be the secretary of state for the incoming administration. Blinken has a long history ...

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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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The ‘New’ American Mercenary: A Pocket History

US-Russia arms control talks started in Vienna on Monday as the fate of the last nuclear arms control treaty between the two powers hangs in the balance. Russia has offered to e...

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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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Pandemic Brings US and Russia Closer Together and Washington Hawks Panic

With debate picking up for the US to pass another major emergency stimulus package for coronavirus, the Pentagon is lining up this time with the expectation that they will be in...

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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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Ted Carpenter on Liberty and the Coronavirus

All the reports of some in the Trump Administration pushing for attacks on “Iranian proxies” in Iraq seem to be coming to a head, with President Trump claiming Wednesday tha...

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US Sees Coronavirus as a New Way to Pressure Iran

Egypt Coordinating Support for Syrian Kurds to Fight Turke. Pentagon Warns They Aren’t Set Up to Fight Coronavirus. US Imposes New Iran Sanctions, Complicating Coronavirus

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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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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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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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