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      U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Dominguez stands guard next to a burning oil well on March 27, 2003 in Rumayla, Iraq.

      US Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to End Authorizations for 'Horrific Forever Wars'

      "It's far past time to put decisions of military action back in the hands of the people, as the constitution intended," said Rep. Barbara Lee.

      Kenny Stancil
      Feb 09, 2023

      Six U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday to terminate a pair of longstanding authorizations for past wars on Iraq, reviving an ongoing effort to reaffirm Congress' role in deciding whether to approve the use of military force.

      Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.), Tom Cole (R-Okla.), and Chip Roy (R-Texas) led the latest campaign to rescind the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMFs).

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      Media Offers Little Critique Over Biden's Seizure of Afghan Funds

      The story of Biden's reallocation of Afghanistan's reserves wasn't mentioned by a single TV news outlet, according to a search of the Nexis news database.

      Julie Hollar
      Sep 21, 2022

      More than a year after it froze $7 billion of Afghanistan's central bank reserves in the wake of the Taliban's military victory, the US has announced it will use half the money to establish a fund at a Swiss bank to help stabilize the cratering Afghan economy.

      When a government invades a country, occupies it for 20 years, and then sends it into a humanitarian crisis by appropriating most of its money, you'd expect good journalists from that country to follow the story closely and vigorously hold their government to account.

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      Groups Cautiously Welcome Pentagon's New Civilian Casualty Action Plan

      "How and when the military implements these new policies will be critical," said one campaigner. "The U.S. also needs to acknowledge and address the many previous cases of civilian harm that have so far been denied or ignored."

      Brett Wilkins
      Aug 25, 2022

      Human rights groups were cautiously optimistic Thursday as the United States military--which has killed more civilians in foreign wars than any other armed force on Earth in the post-World War II era--published a plan meant to reduce non-combatant casualties.

      "The impact will depend entirely on results."

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