Thursday, April 3, 2025

Will Congress reclaim war powers and end US military involvement in Saudi-led war in...

"The Senate will be able, for the first time, to debate and vote on a check on Trump's war-making in Yemen"

Senate votes to end illegal US war in Yemen

“This Senate vote should mark the beginning of the end of American complicity in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.”

Our man in Riyadh

So there is more than a little poetic justice – or is it irony? – in General Abizaid’s proposed posting to Riyadh.

Global campaign calls for closure of US/NATO foreign bases to end western imperialism

While we call for the closure of all U.S./NATO military bases, we consider the closure of bases and military installations in certain countries and areas as needing special attention by the international movement.
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Costs of war: 17 years after 9/11, nearly half a million people have died...

The cost of the global so-called war on terror will soon surpass $6 trillion.
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How America’s perpetual warfare abroad is fueling an increase in white supremacist violence in...

“If you look for instance at the surges in Ku Klux Klan membership, they align more consistently with the return of veterans from combat and the aftermath of war than they do with anti-immigration, populism, economic hardship or any of the other factors that historians have typically used to explain them."

Planet of war

Still trapped in a greater Middle Eastern quagmire, the U.S. military prepares for global combat.

Be afraid … be very afraid!

An attack on either Russia or China could very well go nuclear, in which case there will be no winners. There will be no one around period to plant flags or declare victory.

New study details ‘staggering’ $6 trillion (and counting) price tag of endless US war

"In sum, high costs in war and war-related spending pose a national security concern because they are unsustainable."

With nearly 400,000 dead in South Sudan, will the US change policy?

It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?