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CENTCOM Chief Briefs Trump on Options for Bombing Iran

Adm. Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command, visited the White House on Thursday to brief President Trump on military options for attacking Iran, The Wall Street Journal has re...

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Trump's Big Bluff on Iran

Reprinted from John's Substack: The Trump administration and its supporters - including the Wall Street Journal editorial page - are working overtime these days to spin the news...

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State Department Approves Massive $24 Billion F-35 Sale to Saudi Arabia

The State Department approved a $24.3 billion sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia. The announcement comes as the Gulf kingdom is requesting military assistance from its allies as it f...

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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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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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Iran Targets US Bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Jordan Following Major US Airstrikes

Iran's Foreign Ministry Says US Strikes on Railway Bridge.... Trump Says He Supports Ukraine's Long-Range Attacks Insid.... Demolitions Continue as Israeli DM Rules Out Withdrawing ...

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Trump Says Iran 'Has To Have Some' Ballistic Missiles

CENTCOM Announces End of US Blockade on Iran. Vance: Israeli Officials Need To Realize Trump Is the Onl.... Report: Netanyahu Aims To Influence US-Iran Deal Through ...

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House Republicans Block Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution That Was Expected To Pass

If the Donald does not wish to bring down upon himself the ignominy of being the first US president to be impeached, convicted and removed from the White House by the US Marshal...

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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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Trump Asks For 'Decisive' Military Operations for Iran

Israel is attempting to force the UN aid agency for Palestinians to cease operations for Israel

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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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Antiwar.com: Now More Than Ever

Antiwar.com is more crucial now than ever, and there is more reason now than ever for it to be the "go-to site every morning!"

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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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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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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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Risking Nuclear War for a Corrupt, Increasingly Repressive Ukraine

It would be imprudent for US leaders to put America at such risk even if Ukraine were the most splendid, pristine democracy in history. It is utterly irresponsible to do so for ...

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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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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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Biden Signs $778 Billion NDAA Into Law

On Monday, President Biden signed the massive $777.7 billion 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law.

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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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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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The World Keeps Yemen Waiting With Deadly Results

The head of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet called for an increased presence of US and allied aircraft carriers in the Asia Pacific to counter Russia and China.

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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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Some Democrats Want to Give Biden War Powers to Fight China Over Taiwan

The centrists are in favor of expanding Biden's authorities even though any military action against China risks nuclear war, while the progressives favor the current policy.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trump Admin Unilaterally Imposes UN Sanctions on Iran

On Friday, 18 September, professor Steve Cohen passed away in New York City and we, the "dissident" community of Americans standing for peace with Russia – and for peace with ...

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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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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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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 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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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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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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