The War Abroad

A collection of 114 posts

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If We Were in Hell, Would We See More Children Burn Than We See in Gaza?

Edited by Sam Thielman I SAW THE SILHOUETTE of a little girl, alone, as everything around her burned in the predawn darkness. Her name is Ward Jalal al-Shaikh Khalil. Only five years old, she survived the Israeli bombing of the Fahmi al-Jirjawi school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Monday. Her mother

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CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp"

New disclosures from the military commissions underscore the depravity of the post-9/11 program—through the eyes of its practitioners, not just its victims.

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As Trump Tours Mideast, Palestinians Report War-on-Terror-Like Torture in Israeli Jails

Interviewing over 100 Gazan ex-detainees, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights found "similarities" to torture "in notorious facilities like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib"

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Remember What You Felt Watching An Airstrike Collapse American Buildings?

The normalization of 'domicide,' after someone did it to our buildings on a particular day. PLUS: FOREVER WARS needs your feedback!

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Lists

An Islamophobia industry compiled lists of Muslims in America. Now those lists can feed a deportation engine. PLUS! If Trump declared himself a neocon, what would be different?

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Just Stop The Fucking Genocide And Red Sea Shipping Will Be Safe

I didn't expect to write this piece twice in barely a year, but the U.S. is back to bombing Yemen and threatening Iran, so here we are

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How Locking Hambali in Gitmo Denied His Victims Closure

Nasir Abas was a leader in Jamaah Islamiyah. Now he wants his former friend, the mastermind of multiple bombings, put on trial. It won't ever happen

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Connecting Vance's Neo-Nazi Apologia And His Artificial-Intelligence Boosterism

The Silicon Valley-MAGA alliance is out to globalize the DOGE smash-and-grab. Its version of AI "Great Power Competition" is the thin end of the wedge, so watch who embraces it.

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Ethnic Cleansing Under The 'Rules-Based International Order'

The wages of impunity are found in telegraphing the removal of Palestinians from their land en masse

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Blowback Like Never Before Will Follow A U.S. Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

Trump is proposing unambiguous ethnic cleansing. That will mean oceans of blood

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Israel's War in Gaza Was Destined To Fail

Of course it has already produced nearly as many fighters as before. Palestinian resistance ends with Palestinian freedom

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Biden, Through The Devastation of Gaza, Argues For His Legacy

His last foreign-policy speech whistled past the graveyard he helped fill. PLUS: Tulsi Gabbard's predictable newfound love for warrantless surveillance!

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After Assad: A Q&A from Damascus

A tyrant is gone. A million questions remain. A reporter on the ground in the Syrian capital speaks to FOREVER WARS

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The Other War In Aleppo

Awkwardly for the next NATO meeting, Turkey's Syrian proxies might soon be in open combat with the U.S.' Syrian proxies. Equilibrium is a fleeting thing in an unsettled war

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From Trump To Harris, Political Silence on a Normalized Guantanamo

In this guest post, former Guantanamo detainee and award-winning author Mansoor Adayfi reflects on the disappearance of the wartime prison as a U.S. political issue

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International Law Strikes Back at The 'Rules-Based International Order'

The ICC warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are a seismic shock to U.S. global hegemony even if the war criminals are never brought to The Hague

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'The Doctor Told Us We Had To Choose Between The Girl And Her Leg'

Another shattering documentary from al-Jazeera's Fault Lines challenges us to experience Israel's genocide in Gaza through the eyes of a wounded child

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Don't Let Democrats Whitewash What They Did on Gaza Once Trump Is in Office (Director's Cut)

During the last Trump presidency, the same people—then former Obama officials—suggested they had learned their lesson from Yemen. No open letters this time

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Lloyd Austin Cheers Biden's 'Magnificent' Work in The Middle East

You and I see a combination genocide and regional war facilitated by the United States. The Biden administration sees responsible stewardship of a complex regional security environment

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The Conscience of a Biden Liberal During Gaza

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines is starting to question, as a U.S.-facilitated genocide unfolds, whether she's more harm than good

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There Is No "Threshold" For "Managing" a Mideast War

U.S. foreign policy needs to abandon this concept, since it's blinding us to how regional conflicts escalate

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FOREVER WARS x TECH WON'T SAVE US

Paris Marx and I talk about the technological aspects of genocide, from quadcopter drones to artificial-intelligence target generation. ALSO: IRON MAN x Big Planet!

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It's Giving Neocons-in-2003 Triumphalism

Get in, loser. We're redrawing the balance of power in the Middle East, something that never goes wrong

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Moment of Truth for The Iranian 'Axis of Resistance' (video)

Talking about the aftermath of Israel's assassination of Hassan Nasrallah with MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin. PLUS: A haunting new documentary, "Starving Gaza"

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U.S.' Military Future in Iraq 'Is Not A Withdrawal,' Officials Declare

The Iraqi PM wants the U.S. out. The U.S. instead negotiates a "transition" to an "enduring bilateral relationship."