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On 18th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion, Activists Renew Calls for US Reparations
Smoke rises from explosions during the first few minutes of a massive air attack on March 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. The third year anniversary since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein will be marked on April 9, 2006 amidst continued unrest in Iraq, where over 30, 000 civilians have been reported to be killed since the start of the war. (Photo by Wathiq Khuzaie /Getty Images)
Warning Biden's Syria Strikes Set 'Dangerous' Precedent, Groups Push Congress to Respond
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) listen in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 12, 2021. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
A joint letter urges lawmakers to "defend the Constitution and Congress's exclusive authority, under Article I, to declare war and authorize the offensive use of military force."
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UN Experts Urge Biden to Abolish 'Inherently Flawed' Death Penalty
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Bloomington, Indiana anti-death-penalty activist Glenda Breeden holds a lamp on Jan. 12, 2021 while protesting against the then-pending execution of Lisa Montgomery, and two others, at Terre Haute Federal Prison this week. Montgomery was to be put to death on Wednesday. President Donald Trump's administration has sped up the execution of prisoners on death row during the last months of his presidency. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
"There is no time to lose with thousands of individuals on state death rows...
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After Airstrikes in Syria, Senators Introduce Resolution to Repeal Some Presidential War Powers
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Last week's airstrikes in Syria show that the executive branch, regardless of party, will continue to stretch its war powers," Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Wednesday. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/30749030226/in/photolist-NRbPpy-4cPgfr-MWyHdh-dn52Jo-NrQtvC-NRd5c7-f6WC8U-3rVon-8BmeWr-oHWmcn-NRcBCL-dm3wuw-ny3ZWs-ny3LWN-5R6v39-NrK85N-4cPghK-dcx89x-6xyMuC-dcx7Sn-nQtHrG-NUreR2-9jSqAJ-NLwZHp-6g8sFo-dqjgME-dm3wyY-pPbAjc-p6mPg8-dcx8TB-oWX5rg-MWyQDE-NJ2kxs-MWC5t7-NRbrXq-NRbEXU-MWBEiU-LH
The measure takes aim at 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the Gulf and Iraq...
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill examining wages at large profitable corporations February 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images)
Sanders Warns Biden Attack on Syria Puts US on 'Path of Continuing the Forever War Instead of Ending It'
U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to speak alongside Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a visit to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on February 10, 2021. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden 'Revenge' Bombing of Syria 'Violates International Law': Legal Scholar
President Donald Trump, who vowed to "bomb the shit out of" Islamic State militants and "take out their families," presided over a dramatic escalation in air and ground attacks on cities including Mosul, Iraq—shown here under U.S. bombardment—in which thousands of civilians were killed. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
'Counter-Terrorism'?: Two Decades After 9/11, New Interactive Map Details Footprint of US War Machine in 85 Countries
Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is accused of illegally transferring weapons to Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar. (Photo: The Oxford Union/REX Shutterstock)
Report of Illegal $80 Million Arms Transfer by Erik Prince to Libyan Warlord Raises Question of Who's Backing Former Blackwater CEO
Two coalitions of groups—some overlapping—sent letters to Congress and President Joe Biden on Wednesday demanding an end to forever wars.
Diverse Coalition Calls on Congress to End 'Forever Wars' and 'Unaccountable, Interventionist' US Foreign Policy
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a media briefing on November 10, 2020 at the State Department in Washington, D.C.
'Going Back to the Cheney Playbook': Fears of War Grow as Pompeo Plans to Accuse Iran of Ties to Al Qaeda
An Iraqi fighter of the Hashed al-Shaabi stands in front of a banner at the site of the January 3, 2020 US drone strike on Qasem Solemani at Baghdad Airport, in Baghdad, Iraq on January 2, 2021. On January 3, Iraq marked the first anniversary of the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani and others in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that was authorized by U.S. President Trump. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images)
Carrying Death Sentence If Convicted, Iraq Issues Arrest Warrant for Trump on Murder Charges
Foreign Minister of Iran, Javad Zarif, during a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran on April 15, 2020.
Iran's Top Diplomat Warns Trump Plotting to 'Fabricate Pretext for War' as US Flies B-52s Over Persian Gulf
UN Experts Condemn Trump's Pardon of Blackwater Contractors as 'Affront to Justice'
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a briefing on November 10, 2020 at the State Department in Washington, D.C.
'Unhinged, Lame-Duck President Wants to Start a War': Warnings as Trump Blames Iran for Rocket Attack
Survivors of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre survey its aftermath on September 16, 2007. (Photo: Ali Yussef/AFP/Getty Images)
Senior UN Human Rights Official 'Deeply Concerned' by Trump's Pardons for Mercenaries Who Massacred 17 Iraqi Civilians
Former Blackwater security guard Nick Slatten and his lawyer Thomas Connolly leave an arraignment hearing at U.S. district court on January 6, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
Leaving Out Assange, Who Exposed US War Crimes, Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Jailed for Massacring Iraqi Civilians

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Absolutely Nothing
Amidst the saber-rattling on Iraq, a fine, furious, gut-wrenching rant from a former Naval intelligence officer who was there from the start on the mindless claim by a draft-dodging Mitt Romney and all the other "simpering capering madmen" and "cowardly connected wealthy weasels" that "tragically, all we've fought for...is on the cusp of vanishing." Tell us, rages Jim Wright, what "we" fought for, and what it would cost to, insanely, do it again.
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