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US Now Supporting Starvation on 'Unprecedented Scale' as Yemen Famine Threatens Five Million Children

After Russian Military Aircraft Shot Down Near Syria, Russian Claims Israel 'Deliberately Staged This Provocation'

Jon Queally, staff writer

Fifteen airmen were killed by anti-aircraft from closed ally Syria, but Russians are blaming Israel for knowingly creating the dangerous situation

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McCain, GOP War Hawk, Dead at 81

Common Dreams staff

"US media worships, above all, US militarism. It's our civic religion."

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Less Than 24 Hours After Senate Rejected Effort to Curb Yemen Slaughter, 26 More Children Killed by US-Backed Bombing

Jon Queally, staff writer

"These deaths are on our hands, and many more children will die in Yemen as...

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Trump Administration Announces $200 Million Cut in Humanitarian Aid for Palestinians

'Your Bombs Are Killing Victims Here': U.S.-Made Bomb Hit School Bus in Attack That Killed 40 Yemeni Children

Amid Warnings Saudi Attack Will Plunge Yemen Into Famine, Urgent Demand for US to End 'Complicity in This Atrocity'

'Trump Has Stoked the Fire in the Middle East': 8 Clips From Sanders Town Hall

Palestinians carry a demonstrator injured during clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza strip and Israel.

As US Opens New Embassy in Jerusalem, Israeli Snipers Open Fire on Gaza Protests, Killing Dozens

Zarif: Trump Just 'More Explicit' About US Desire for Iran 'Regime Change'

Democrat Heitkamp Backing War Hawk Pompeo Because Trump 'Entitled to His Own Cabinet'

In 'Clear Violation of Domestic and International Law,' Trump Bombs Syria

After France Claims "Proof" Chemical Attack Was Assad, Russia Says "Irrefutable Data" Shows Incident "Staged" by Foreign Intelligence Service

Sanders: Trump Has 'No Legal Authority' to Bomb or Attack Syria

As Tensions Soar, Turkey Warns US Bombing of Syria Could Set Entire Middle East 'on Fire'

Critics: Any Trump Attack on Syria Would Be 'Reckless,' 'Dangerous,' and 'Illegal'

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Stop the War Coalition

Amnesty International’s Raqqa Report Is Proof the US-Led Coalition Is Out of Control

NIAC Action

House NDAA Clarifies Trump Has No War Authorization for Iran

Stop the War Coalition

'No to Trump, No to War' National Tour...

Democracy for America

While Trump Likes to Play Authoritarian, Its Congress Who Must Decide on War

National Iranian-American Council

NIAC Statement on Syria Strikes

Amnesty International - USA

Strikes Must Minimize Further Harm to Civilians in Syria

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Kevin Martin

For This Year’s International Day of Peace, Korea Takes the Lead

Kevin Martin

U.S. Support for the Bombing of Yemen to Continue, for Now

Vijay Prashad

There's at Least One More Ugly Battle Brewing in Syria

Benjamin Dangl

After 9/11: The Staggering Economic and Human Cost of the War on Terror

Jim Naureckas

Thomas Friedman’s Crazy Poor Economics

Robert C. Koehler

Reviving the Spirit of ’68

Moustafa Bayoumi

US Bombs Are Killing Children in Yemen. Does Anybody Care?

Christopher Brauchli

Suffer Little Children, We Command You

Tom Gallagher

A Trojan Horse for the U.S.?

Richard Silverstein

It Is Netanyahu, Not Corbyn, Who Deserves 'Unequivocal Condemnation'

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