The War Abroad The Iran War Costs As Much As Afghanistan During The Surge The Pentagon's acting comptroller tells Congress the war has cost $25 billion thus far. What would you have liked to spend that money on instead of killing schoolgirls?
The War Abroad The Many Fathers of The Murder of Iran As Trump threatens that "a whole civilization will die tonight," remember that he didn't get here by himself
The War Abroad So You Lost A War To Iran And you're going to try to convince us you… won. Wow. Wow, OK
The War Abroad This Is The Most Important Piece I've Ever Reported During the "ceasefire" in Gaza, volunteer doctors attempt to save as many lives as they can, all while the Israeli genocide continues. Please read this
The War Abroad Trump, Lost in The Failure of His War, Blinks Whether or not this is the beginning of the end of the Iran War, now we have to talk about humiliation—and what emerges from it
The War Abroad Xi Jinping Has A Chance To Do The Funniest Thing Right Now He could stop the Iran War. And in the process, rebalance the world's great-power politics
The War Abroad None of These People I Insulted Want To Die For Me in The Strait of Hormuz? The Trump people, on top of everything else, do not know ball. PLUS: U.S. military AI usage killed an Iraqi student in 2024
The War Abroad When The War Goes AI, The Data Centers Will Be Targets (f/Engadget's Devindra Hardawar) We talk Anthropic, OpenAI, Iran and the mil-tech oligarchy. Children will be sent to protect data centers the way their fathers were sent to protect oil fields
The War Abroad Interceptors Versus Missiles: The Iran War's Wrath of The Math A theory of Iranian strategy. PLUS: Me, Chris Hayes and Ayman Mohyeldin on the war's politics
The War Abroad Regime Change in Iran (Terms And Conditions Apply) The warmongers, once again, get the war they've sought for decades. Trump and Netanyahu leave the hard work to the people they're bombing
The War Abroad The Scent of Iranian Lavender The U.S. and Israel are gearing up for war with Iran while the Pentagon demands an AI company drop its "safeguards." Hmm. But yes: abuse the Defense Production Act!
The War Abroad Dan Caine Suddenly Realizes He's The Iran War's Fall Guy The white DEI hire at the Joint Chiefs of Staff might want to deny calling an Iran war "easy." But his job is to insulate Trump from blame for military debacles
The War Abroad The Meaning of Marco Rubio's Munich Speech Is Found in The 'Board of Peace' A new institution is being born. In Munich, Marco Rubio outlined a certain purpose. When will the two join up?
The War Abroad I Guess We're All Just Supposed To Be OK With Bombing Iran Again Watching the buildup for regime change in Iran happily echo the buildup for regime change in Iraq. PLUS: The ghost of NSEERS returns to DHS
The War Abroad Beware The "Trump Won't Use Force in Greenland" Headlines The transatlantic crisis is hardly over. Trump is so psychotic that Mark Carney is telling the truth about the 'rules-based international order.' PLUS: Three podcasts I guested on!
The War Abroad 'This Big Truck Is Coming': Iran After The Maduro Kidnapping The distinguished journalist Tara Kangarlou sees a U.S. attack on Iran as all but certain now
The War Abroad A Criminal Empire The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream
The War Abroad 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
The War Abroad 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?
The War Abroad 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
The War Abroad 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
The War Abroad The Legacy of The War on Terror Reaches South America While Trump openly manufactures a war in Venezuela, Israel never stops attacking the Palestinians
The War Abroad 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
The War Abroad ‘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
The War Abroad An FBI Counterterrorism Vet Explains How To Use Trump's New Orders Against The Left 'Recognize that you are going to be targeted'