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According to the New York Times, U.S. officials say there’s no excuse, on the warmakers’ own terms, for the genocide they are arming:
“Israel has achieved all that it can militarily in Gaza, according to senior American officials, who say continued bombings are only increasing risks to civilians while the possibility of further weakening Hamas has diminished. . . . William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, is due in Qatar on Thursday. Brett McGurk, President Biden’s Middle East coordinator,
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The Candidate from Hell The Man of the Moment (And What a Moment It Is!) ByDonald Trump is all too literally the candidate from hell and, yes, he’s threatening to take the United States and the world to — no place else! — hell and back. He’s the greatest danger to this planet imaginable. And I’m not even thinking about what else he’d do, were he to win election 2024 and return to the Oval Office, having
During his four years as President of the United States, Donald Trump was remarkably active and often successful in sabotaging the health and safety of the nation’s workers.
Trump, as the AFL-CIO noted, targeted Medicare and Medicaid for $1 trillion in funding cuts, eroded the Affordable Care Act (thereby increasing the number of Americans lacking health insurance coverage by 7 million),
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What a planet we’re now on. Whether it’s days (the two hottest ever recorded, back to back), months (the
Tim Walz was in 2015 part of the successful public campaign to pressure then-President Obama not to bomb every inch of Syria. Tim Walz does not hate China. That seems to be his direct antiwar record.
His pro-war record is longer: He has not opposed any war once it started. He’s not supported any treaty, international law, international court, or sought to hold any U.S. war criminals accountable. He’s famously claimed to support the mass murder and destruction of Iraq even at the height of public
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 11, 2024
On August 10, Military Times published an article demanding that NATO support the use of cluster bombs, bombs that litter the ground with colorful little bomblets that are very attractive to children during the last moments of those children’s lives or of their possession of various limbs or body parts.
The article was written by two folksy guys referred to in the credits as “John and Dan.” John Nagl is employed by the U.S. Army War College
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 9, 2024
In the August 4 San Francisco Chronicle, Brett Wagner, formerly of the U.S. Naval War College, and now adjunct fellow at the weapons-funded Center for Strategic and International Studies, writes that the “Department
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I’m the grandson of a Jewish immigrant who arrived in New York City in the 1890s as a young man with — so the family story went — the equivalent of a German fifty-cent piece in his pocket. His son, my father, grew up in Brooklyn, so as a kid in the 1950s, when it came to baseball, I naturally rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Had I, however, lived in Cleveland, I would