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US airstrikes have killed up to 48,000 civilians since 9/11: Analysis
Sep 10, 2021 15:10Airstrikes conducted by the United States have killed between 22,000 and 48,000 civilians since September 11, 2001, according to a report published recently by Airwars, a military watchdog that monitors and seeks to reduce civilian harm in violent conflict zones.
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Why majority of Americans support costly foreign policies?
Sep 09, 2021 09:46Huge spending on the military has undermined US economic growth. Increased spending on defense meant less funding allocated to education and other socio-economic programs. This misallocation of resources was a major reason the US economy was slowing down, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic and US-China trade wars.
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Since 9/11, US has spent $21 trillion on militarism at home and abroad
Sep 05, 2021 09:11In the 20 years since the September 11 attacks, the United States regime has spent more than $21 trillion at home and overseas on militaristic policies that led to the creation of a vast surveillance apparatus, worsened mass incarceration, intensified the war on immigrant communities, and caused incalculable human suffering in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and elsewhere.
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Farewell to Donald Rumsfeld, dreary war criminal
Jul 08, 2021 14:44Donald Rumsfeld, a U.S. defense secretary who was the main architect of the Iraq war until President George W. Bush replaced him when the United States found itself bogged down after three years of aggression, has died at age 88.
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Crimes of Donald Rumsfeld and a reflection on Iraq war
Jul 07, 2021 18:19The real tragedy of the 2003 U.S. invasion is that virtually none of its lessons have been learned. It's easy to understand why. None of its perpetrators have ever suffered any consequences for the damage they inflicted on the country and the world
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Biden joins long line of presidents to ‘woefully’ undercount civilians killed in US wars
Jun 13, 2021 08:58Human rights defenders have recently accused the Biden administration of joining its predecessors in undercounting the number of civilians killed during US wars, as the latest annual Pentagon report on noncombatants killed by American bombs and bullets was blasted as “grossly inadequate” by a leading ACLU official.
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President Assad’s re-election boosts Syria’s independence
May 30, 2021 09:29The re-election of Dr. Bashar al-Assad as president for the fourth consecutive time since 2000 is indeed a vote of the Syrian people for the unity of the country and its independence from both western hegemony and subordination to the rootless and unelected Arab regimes.
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Study shows 91% of people killed or injured by explosives in global cities were civilians
May 28, 2021 09:25On the heels of Israel's recent bombardment of the Gaza Strip, a London-based charity revealed Tuesday that civilians accounted for 91% of people killed or injured when explosive weapons were used in populated areas worldwide from 2011 to 2020.
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Anniversary of the liberation of Khorramshahr
May 24, 2021 08:25The port city of Khorramshahr, in southwest of Iran, was liberated on May 24, 1982 after 587 days of occupation by the Ba’sthist army of Saddam.
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Peace-building suffers during pandemic obsession
Mar 17, 2021 14:15Evidence suggests that committed foreign aid being redirected from peace-building programs into efforts to deal with COVID-19 is likely to have even more of an impact on the ground than a decrease in foreign aid. A further reduction in funding and troops for UN peacekeeping missions is also likely.