Americans spent about 50 days working and paying taxes last year just to feed the war machine — with 23 days going to pay Pentagon contractors and their millionaire CEOs, Lindsay Koshgarian and Hanna Homestead report.
The fact that our government and institutional media downplay accurate casualty figures only makes it more urgent to find them, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies.
Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. He has turned the U.S. into the same sort of pariah — never to be trusted.
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a choke point for the world economy, with the gravest consequences falling not on the powerful but on the poorer nations of the Global South.
Before the ceasefire, as Trump escalated threats and oil chokepoints tightened, Trita Parsi warned that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was entering its most dangerous phase yet.
The world is on the brink of disaster if Donald Trump follows through on his crazed threat to destroy the region’s economic base and commit possible genocide against Iran, writes Joe Lauria.
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
Scott Ritter on The World This Week discusses Donald Trump’s escalating Stone Age War, Emmanuel Macron telling Trump to shut up and F15 Down. Watch the replay.
In its latest statement, No Cold War takes stock of the long history of U.S. aggression across the world and the need to reject a future of wars without end.
The power of the purse is the surest way Congress can stop the Iran war, or any war. If Congress funds war, Congress authorizes it. If Congress cuts off funds, a war will end.