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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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Katz Tells Hegseth That Israel Won't Withdraw From Gaza, Syria, or Lebanon

Over 100 Democrats Join Thomas Massie in Voting To Cut $3.... Senators Unveil Sweeping Russia Sanctions Bill To 'Honor'.... The Inconvenient Jew Is One of Zionism's Biggest Problems

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In Historic First, Congress Passes Concurrent War Powers Resolution To End Iran War

Vance Says Iran Agreed To Establish a Direct Line Between.... Pentagon Tells Lawmakers It Needs Additional $80 Billion .... US Africa Command Says It Has Launched 68 Airstrikes in S...

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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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US Bombs Iran's Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas

The post included an animated video featuring Hegseth, where he claimed that the Trump administration was "putting the American taxpayer first" and taking action against bureauc...

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Department of War Seeks $200 Billion More to Fund Iran War

Top US Counterterrorism Official Resigns Over War With Iran. Lebanon Death Toll Passes 1,000, Amnesty Says Israel Must.... Israel Strikes World's Largest Natural Gas Field in Iran

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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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Moscow: US and Russia 'No Longer Bound' by New START Limits as Treaty Set to Expire

While the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called "Board of Peace" (BoP) might tempt some to dismiss it as mere specta...

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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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Biden Hides Behind 'Great Power Competition' To Maintain the Bankrupt Status Quo

Stoking fear of a Russian, Chinese, or Iranian takeover of the region is just a desperate ploy to justify a terrible set of policies that keep the US closely linked to some of t...

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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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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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The President's Policy is Dangerous: What Does Joe Biden Believe He is Doing in Ukraine?

President Joe Biden spoke to the American people after a fashion. He, or whoever writes his material, sought to calm rising fears about the consequences of intervening ever deep...

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Yemen's Ceasefire Brings Month-Long Pause of Airstrikes

On Tuesday, President Biden visited a Lockheed Martin plant in Alabama that manufactures Javelin anti-tank missile systems, a weapon the US has been pouring into Ukraine to he...

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Gen. Milley Says Risk of Conflict 'Between Great Powers' Is Increasing

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley warned Congress on Tuesday that the chances of a "significant international conflict between great powers" are increasing...

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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 Puts 8,500 Troops on 'Heightened Alert' for Potential Deployment to Eastern Europe

The Pentagon said Monday that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has placed 8,500 troops on "heightened alert" to prepare for a possible deployment to Eastern Europe as Preside...

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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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Bombings, Casualties Surge in Escalation of Saudi Air War in Yemen

Are the CIA and its contractors able to bully not only the U.S. Department of Justice, but also the UK judiciary? This is not hard to conclude after the High Court decision anno...

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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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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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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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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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Who Elected America To Rule the World?

A report from The Washington Post revealed that the Biden administration approved a $735 million arms sale to Israel. Congress was officially notified of the sale on May 5th, l...

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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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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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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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Biden to Continue Seeking Extradition of Julian Assange

The Biden Administration will continue to seek the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a Justice Department official said on Tuesday. This means the US will contin...

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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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Israelis Say They Will Attack Iran If US Returns to Nuclear Deal

Israeli officials have made their opposition to the Biden administration returning to the Iran nuclear deal known. Some have even threatened a military strike on Iran if Preside...

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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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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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Report: Biden Will Continue to Use Sanctions as a Weapon

According to a report from Reuters, the incoming Biden administration will continue to use sanctions as a foreign policy weapon, a favorite tool of President Trump.

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Bipartisan Bill Would Give Israel Veto Powers Over US Arms Sales

A group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced a bill in the House that would effectively give Israel the power to veto US arms sales to countries in the Middle East. Since the UAE ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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US Pushes Allies to Send Warships to Gulf to Protect Tankers

Iran announced last week they will be enriching uranium to 5% which is over the 3.67% limit ...

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