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From Space Force to F-35s, Congress Given Specific Path to Cut Pentagon Budget by $80 Billion

A U.S. Air Force pilot flies the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet during a public display at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix on March 17, 2018. (Photo: Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

'Death Falling From the Sky': Report Spotlights Civilian Harm From US Drone Strikes in Yemen

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A child walks by a mural showing a U.S. drone in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

"The United States is failing to investigate credible allegations of violations, to hold individuals responsible for violations accountable, and to provide prompt and adequate reparation."

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Calls Grow for Biden to Fully Withdraw US Troops From Afghanistan by May 1

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on March 21, 2021. He met with U.S. troops and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to discuss the timeline for an American withdrawal from the war-torn nation. (Photo: Afghan presidency/handout/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

"If Biden chooses to stay, every dead soldier, every family broken, and every...

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On 18th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion, Activists Renew Calls for US Reparations

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

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)

"Americans owe a debt to the people of Iraq that can never be repaid in full...

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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)

Warning Biden's Syria Strikes Set 'Dangerous' Precedent, Groups Push Congress to Respond

Numerous progressive groups expressed support for a March 16, 2021 letter from 50 House Democrats calling on President Joe Biden to seek a reduction of the $740 billion Pentagon budget. (Image: Win Without War)

50 House Democrats Demand Biden Slash Pentagon Budget to Invest in Public Health, Common Good

A member of the U.S. Marine Corps deployed during the Iraq War. (Photo: Cpl. Brian M. Henner/USMC/flickr/cc)

'We Need to Make Sure It's Done Right': Peace Advocates Welcome Biden Move to Limit War Powers

"In the name of counterterrorism, U.S. presidents have for two decades authorized unlawful, secretive, and unaccountable killing abroad," the ACLU's Hina Shamsi said on Thursday, March 4, 2021. (Photo: Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)

ACLU to Biden: Do Not 'Review' Drone Killing Program—End It Once and for All

"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

After Airstrikes in Syria, Senators Introduce Resolution to Repeal Some Presidential War Powers

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'

Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy (Conn.) (L) and Tim Kaine (Va.) talk at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

Lawmakers Say Biden Admin Must Present Congress Legal Justification for Bombing of Syria

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

Members of the security forces walk at the site of a NATO airstrike which destroyed two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Kunduz on September 4, 2009. (Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images)

'Is Our Blood Worth Less?' Afghan Anguish After European Court Sides With Germany Over Airstrike That Killed 90 Civilians

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Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

On 18th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Center for Constitutional Rights Joins Iraqi Calls for Redress and Demands Biden End Unbounded Militarism

Peace Action

Time to Repeal, Not Replace War Authorizations

Win Without War

Repeal, Don't Replace, the AUMFs

Demand Progress

Joint Statement on US Airstrike in Syria

Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders Statement on Air Strikes in Syria

Stop the War Coalition

Stop the War Coalition Condemns Biden’s Airstrikes on Syria

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Nan Levinson

America's Far-Right in Uniform

Rev Dr Liz Theoharis

The American Spiritual Death Spiral

Matthew Guariglia

Maine Should Take This Chance to Defund the Local Intelligence Fusion Center

Will Bunch

America's Military-Industrial Complex Squanders $1.7 Trillion on a Lame Fighter Jet While the President Begs for Infrastructure Cash

Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon

The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King's Final Year

Adam Parsons, Sonja Scherndl

It's Time to End the Insanity of Colossal Military Spending and Reallocate Funds to Basic Economic and Social Needs

Robert C. Koehler

Can Biden End the Endless Wars and Learn to Wage Peace?

Andrew Bacevich

America's Long Wars Are Losers: No Bang, No Whimper, No Victory

Adam Weinstein

Failure to Take US Military Out of Afghanistan Would Make Repeal of AUMF Meaningless

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies

U.S. Joins "Rules-Based World" on Afghanistan