US Refuses to Acknowledge Systemic Use of Torture by Its Armed Forces in Iraq
A cell block on Abu Gharib. Photo: USDOJ Office of the Inspector General, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Abdul Rahman / Peoples Dispatch Hundreds of Iraqi prisoners kept in US detention...
View ArticlePentagon: US Forces in Iraq and Syria Attacked 23 Times Since October 17
Coalition Forces fire 120mm illumination rounds using an XM905 Advanced Mortar Protection System from a fire base in the al-Shadaddi region, Syria, Feb. 14, 2023. Illumination rounds can be used to...
View ArticleUS Launches More Airstrikes in Eastern Syria Against IRGC Site
An F-15E Strike Eagle waits to launch in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility prior to strike operations in Syria Sept. 23, 2014. These aircraft were part of a large coalition strike...
View ArticleToday Let’s Honor the Veterans Who Have Turned Against the US War Machine
Hundreds of veterans returned from Iraq ready to fight the horror and injustice of the U.S. military industrial complex. By Derek Seidman / Truthout This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 2003...
View ArticleU.S. Flies ‘Routine’ Spy Flights From UK’s Cyprus Base Near Gaza for ‘Third...
An American U-2 spy plane parked at RAF Akrotiri, the British air base on Cyprus. (Screengrab: Google Earth) By Matt Kennard / Declassified UK UK official said US spy flights from Britain’s Cyprus...
View ArticleNorman Solomon: ‘The Madness of Militarism’
By Norman Solomon / Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy In this year’s Ellsberg Lecture, Norman Solomon reflects on what Martin Luther King Jr. called ‘the madness of militarism’ and offers an...
View ArticleUS Troops Are Occupying Syria’s Oil Fields. Congress Refuses to Withdraw Them
By Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report The US military has occupied Syrian sovereign territory since 2014, preventing Damascus from accessing its own oil and wheat fields. A top Pentagon official...
View ArticleIraq ‘Heads Towards’ Ending US Military Presence
Forward Operating Base (FOB) Hammer, typical of a semi-permanent base in Iraq. By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said his government is “heading towards” ending...
View ArticleUS and UK Bomb Dozens of Sites in Yemen
Royal air force of Oman Hawk Mk 166 Advanced Jet Trainer. Spc. Natianna Strachen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com The US and the UK on Thursday night launched strikes...
View ArticleBiden Thinks It’s Just a Matter of Time Before US Troops Are Killed in Iraq...
A Little Rock Air Force Base C-130 Hercules taxis through the rain after delivering a load of cargo and personnel to Sather Air Base, Iraq on January 26, 2008. Sather AB is located on the west side of...
View ArticleBombing Muslims for Peace
On Prowl by Jithesh is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 / Flickr By William D. Astore / TomDispatch Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic...
View Article‘Obscene’: Biden Quietly OKs More 2,000-Pound Bombs, Warplanes for Israel
U.S. Air Forces prepare humanitarian aid destined for airdrop over Gaza . Photo from Wikimedia Commons by the U.S. Air Force on March 21, 2024. By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Despite growing...
View ArticleConstant Killing
An aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2021. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase) By Nick Turse / TomDispatch There are constants in this world — occurrences...
View ArticleProject 2025
Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 from Flickr. By Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes / TomDispatch Roman poet Juvenal coined the phrase “bread and circuses” nearly 2,000...
View ArticleCaitlin Johnstone: Backing the Worst Aggressor
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by the White House from Oct. 18, 2023. By Caitlin Johnstone / CaitlinJohnstone.com U.S. President...
View ArticleAs War Widens, U.S. Assets Become Easy Targets
Graphic made by The Cradle. By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan / The Cradle During a White House press conference on 31 July, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby underscored the US commitment to...
View Article‘This Is What the US Military Was Doing in Iraq’: Photos of 2005 Haditha...
Haditha massacre (Ahmed Fanar Muslih, Wajdi Ayad Abdulhussein, Akram Hameed Fleh, Khalid Ayad Abdulhussein, and Mohammed Battal Ahmed). United States Marine Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons...
View ArticleHarris Lies in Debate With Trump by Claiming No US Troops Are Deployed in...
U.S. forces provide security during their independent, coordinated patrol with Turkish military forces along the demarcation line outside Manbij, Syria, July 14, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt....
View ArticleUS Militarism Is a Leading Cause of the Climate Catastrophe
A Drug Enforcement Administration team member burns opium and drug-making chemicals at a burn pit aboard Forward Operating Base Marjah, in Marjah, Afghanistan, May 19. English: Photo by Gunnery Sgt....
View ArticleReport: Israel Plans to Strike Iran Before US Presidential Election
The first of two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors is launched during a successful intercept test. The U.S. ArmyRalph Scott/Missile Defense Agency/U.S. Department of Defense,...
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