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The mysterious case of Joe Biden and the future of drone wars
Dec 19, 2021 20:58The handling of the Kabul strike is an ominous sign that while Biden has pledged to review the drone program, a long-standing mechanism for self-exoneration remains entrenched.
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Biden to Pentagon: Keep the war machine running
Dec 08, 2021 10:36The Biden administration released its first Global Posture Review, with the continuation of a Cold War stance toward China and Russia.
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How many wars does Washington want? And for what?
Dec 03, 2021 19:05Over the last two decades US policymakers have blundered through Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen, frivolously sacrificing thousands of lives, wasting trillions of dollars, diverting essential resources, misusing patriotic personnel, and damaging national credibility – as well as killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions of people in foreign lands.
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Crimes without punishment – ever
Dec 01, 2021 10:42An estimated 300 children under five dying every day in Yemen from malnutrition, Palestinians shot dead in their occupied country every day, Lebanon and Syria slowly strangled by US sanctions, and the revelation of yet another massacre by the US, in Syria, where “about” 70 women and children were killed at Baghuz by bombs dropped one after the other to make sure that no-one escaped.
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Pinching pennies for people—but endless cash for war
Nov 23, 2021 17:57There is a paradox underpinning American politics and its society right now. The U.S. must be the only country in the world where even when some wars end—like Afghanistan—government officials still elect to spend more money on the military.
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Syria's My Lai? US massacred 70 civilians and covered it up
Nov 20, 2021 07:29After killing dozens of Syrian civilians in a 2019 bombing, the US military exonerated itself and concealed evidence. It's the latest scandal for a shadowy US war in Syria that has evaded oversight.
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US devilry behind Daesh terrorism in Afghanistan
Nov 18, 2021 18:52Not a day passes when the humanoid devils in Washington are not thinking of harming mankind, and not a day passes when the instruments of their terrorism are not killing people around the world – especially Muslims in Palestine, in Iraq, in Syria, and in Afghanistan.
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US absolves drone killers and persecutes whistleblowers
Nov 11, 2021 09:36A Pentagon report treats the killing of an Afghan family as an innocent mistake — and upholds a U.S. tradition of excusing war crimes.
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After Afghanistan disaster, the Pentagon is on track to get even more money (2)
Nov 10, 2021 16:03The defeat in Afghanistan offers a chance to rethink America’s war machine, but Congress is on the verge of raising military spending to $740 billion.
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After Afghanistan disaster, the Pentagon is on track to get even more money (1)
Nov 09, 2021 17:55The defeat in Afghanistan offers a chance to rethink America’s war machine, but Congress is on the verge of raising military spending to $740 billion.