Saturday, January 11, 2025

‘What kind of maniacs are running this country?:’ Pentagon rings in New Year with...

"Maybe a little more 'Happy New Year!' and a little less 'Watch... our powerful bombs of mass destruction.'"
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Will John Bolton’s dream to bomb Iran come true? Ex-Iranian ambassador warns about US...

"The strategy of John Bolton is a war, a sanction war, economic war on Iranian nation in order to push them to bring a regime change within inside Iran."

Drug wars, missing money, and a phantom $500 million

More effective use of spreadsheets won’t solve the underlying problems of America’s wars or cure an addiction to policies that continue to fail.
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Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war brings Gaza to the brink...

Alex de Waal says famine in Gaza is “inevitable” as those warnings have been ignored and Israel’s war on Gaza is poised to continue.

‘Tell me how this ends?’

David Petraeus finally answers his own question.
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A war for oil? Bolton pushes privatization of Venezuela’s oil as US ratchets up...

As the Trump administration continues its attempt to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. has imposed a de facto embargo on oil from Venezuela’s state-run oil company.

Talon Anvil, Task Force 9 and the terrible cost of the air offensive in...

Subsidizing militarism in search of monsters overseas seems more and more like the American way. With the new focus on near peer competitors like Russia and China, the dangers are only growing.

Spilling ink and spilling blood

Fighting and writing against America’s forever wars...

Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?

This external approach, based on military occupation, to promote democracy in occupied foreign countries was “doomed to fail.”

Water deprivation looms in Gaza

Satellite photos and videos obtained by HRW showed extensive damage to water sanitation infrastructures from Israeli bombardments.