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James Mattis

 

Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle hit by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul

'Yeah, Right': Pentagon Report Claiming US Military Killed Just 12 Civilians Last Year Met With Skepticism

"Once again the confirmed civilian casualty count is below what communities on the ground are reporting," lamented Emily Tripp, director of the monitor group Airwars.

Brett Wilkins ·

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin interrupted a General Dynamics shareholder meeting in Reston, Virginia on May 5, 2021. (Photo: Medea Benjamin)

Peace Activist Interrupts General Dynamics Shareholder Meeting to Blast the Business of War

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin took CEO Phebe Novakovic to task for "personally making $21 million a year through a business model that thrives on conflict, death, and destruction."

Brett Wilkins ·

Civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan during the tenure of President Donald Trump. (Photo: Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)

Report Blames Trump Admin for 330% Rise in Afghan Civilian Casualties

"In 2019 airstrikes killed 700 civilians—more civilians than in any other year since the beginning of the war in 2001 and 2002."

Brett Wilkins ·

Raytheon Technologies will have more money to make campaign contributions, more money to hire lobbyists, and more production sites that can be used as leverage over members of Congress loathe to oppose spending on weapons produced in their states or districts. (Photo: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Merger Mania: The Military-Industrial Complex on Steroids

Eisenhower's worst nightmare

William Hartung ·

'Shameful, Bigoted, Cruel': Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Trump's Ban on Transgender Service Members

"We will all keep fighting to take down this discriminatory ban. In court, at the ballot, and through our transformation of public discourse and understanding."

Jake Johnson ·

Trump picked up Bolton for the post of national security adviser from the Gatestone Institute, a known hate group dedicated to spreading disinformation about Muslims and Islam, which he chaired. (Photo: Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)

Who’s Running John Bolton to Start a War With Iran? He Worried Even Mad Dog Mattis

Bolton has been agitating for a war on Iran for two decades

Juan Cole ·

“Humanity remains trapped in a cage sometimes called ‘the war system,’ which has the semblance of a permanent lockup.”(Shutterstock)

A Loose Cannon for Peace?

What is the value of Trump’s decision to start shrinking U.S. involvement in several war-ravaged sectors of the Middle East?

Robert C. Koehler ·

President Trump arrives to speak to members of the US military during an unannounced trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on Dec. 26. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump vs. the Foreign Policy Establishment

Waging war to pacify the Greater Middle East hasn’t worked and won’t

Andrew Bacevich ·

The World According to the 'Adults in the Room'

A year of Forever War in review

Danny Sjursen ·

U.S. bombs explode over Syria, 2014

Time to Get Out of Syria

The US has no strategic interest in Syria and no business at all being militarily involved there.

Eric Margolis ·

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