With more than 1,000 civilian deaths in Iran, the U.S. secretary of war said the U.S. has loosened the rules of military engagement. “We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be,” he said.
As the arms treaty ends today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been to global thermonuclear annihilation.
The attack marked the first time Israel and the U.S. coordinated military action in Gaza under a mechanism in the ceasefire deal, which has seen the IDF kill at least 93 Palestinians since it took effect, Dave DeCamp reports.
Dave DeCamp reports on the deadliest day of Israeli attacks in the Strip since the ceasefire went into effect on Oct. 10. It occurred after an Israeli bulldozer struck an unexploded bomb. It was misrepresented as a Hamas attack.
Seven people including Iranian diplomats and an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps senior commander were killed in Israel’s airstrike Monday on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their public selves to sleep.
The West’s pattern of continually escalating nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine has built-in incentives for Russia to ramp up its own aggressions directly against NATO.
You can see the twinkle of this looming conflict in the eyes of Western imperialists as far back as a 1902 interview with Winston Churchill that was published a year after the U.K. leader’s death.