The War Abroad

A collection of 129 posts

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The Largest and Bloodiest U.S. Battlefield in 2025? Somalia

At least 87 drone strikes, raids and other U.S. military engagements have hit Somalia this year, by far the most ever. And it's likely an undercount

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Pete Hegseth And Adm. Mitch Bradley Belong In Prison

The South American boat strikes are plainly murders. Now we have the names of the murderers. Do we have the political will to lock them up?

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Al-Qaeda in Syria's Ex-Commander Enlists in The War on Terror

They always said al-Qaeda would one day make its way to the White House. Turns out it's not for a suicide bombing but a handshake

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Three Hops To Your Doom

As Pete Hegseth pledges to treat South America like al-Qaeda, the administration's targeting rules accordingly permit indiscriminate killing

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The Legacy of The War on Terror Reaches South America

While Trump openly manufactures a war in Venezuela, Israel never stops attacking the Palestinians

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Learning Nothing From A Genocide

The U.S.' Mideast coalition really expects the Palestinians to accept permanent subjugation. I discussed it on podcasts and in articles

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‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’

Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine

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An FBI Counterterrorism Vet Explains How To Use Trump's New Orders Against The Left

'Recognize that you are going to be targeted'

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One Day, Zionists Will Continue To Deny This

Riffing off Sana Saeed's essay riffing off Omar El Akkad

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Sadism And Depravity in The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

"We treat these civilians in Gaza worse, with less dignity, than we treated the ISIS fighters that surrendered in Baghouz in Syria." PLUS: Free Chris Smalls

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The Belated Voices Against The U.S.-Israeli Genocide of The Palestinians

Why did the onset of famine, and not any of the previous 21 months of collective slaughter, not compel them to speak out?

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A Nuclear Iran Would Be 'A Global Hegemon," Next CENTCOM Leader Claims

At least Adm. Brad Cooper won't be planning military operations against Ir– oh. Also, he's a big artificial-intelligence guy

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They Really Thought Shock And Awe Would Work

After starting a war with Iran, the Trump team thought it could (1) deescalate while (2) flirting with regime change. Now Iranian missiles have targeted the huge U.S. base in Qatar

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War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran

Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?

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Israel's U.S.-Backed Aggression Reaches Its Iraq-War Moment

If Oct. 7 was Israel's Sept. 11, now it's at the phase of making an unsupportable WMD claim to launch the war it's long wanted. But we say no to war with Iran

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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