The War Abroad

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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."

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A New Tactical Era of Supply-Chain Sabotage at Scale

Preliminary thoughts on Israel's mass detonation of pagers in Lebanon. Now we have a different angle to understand the assertion that supply-chain vulnerabilities are national security concerns

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Blinken Signals There Will Be No Justice for Aysenur Eygi

Telling Israel to "fundamentally change" its "operations" in the West Bank assumes its continued occupation of the West Bank

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Unseen Photographs of U.S. War Crimes Emerge

Thanks to The New Yorker, photographs of the 2005 U.S. massacre at Haditha, Iraq have come to light. So many more remain hidden

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They Have To Call Bisan Owda A Terrorist

A young journalist living through a genocide documents the reality of life in Gaza. I'll destroy my Emmy if they rescind her nomination

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Remembering My Friend Emad Hassan, Who Should Never Have Been in Guantanamo

Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantanamo detainee who now leads CAGE's Guantanamo Project, eulogizes the Yemeni man beyond the shadows of the torture prison. Part 2 of a 2-part series

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EXCLUSIVE: Oman Expels Two Dozen Ex-Guantanamo Detainees To Yemen

After less than a decade out of the infamous wartime prison, at least 24 Yemeni men have learned they weren't "resettled," after all. Part 1 of a 2-part series

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U.S. Dooms Its Red Sea Mission by Denying Gaza Link

The commander of U.S. Naval forces in the Mideast can't define an end-state for his mission. It's staring him in the face

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The Cowardice of Lloyd Austin

In canceling the Guantanamo plea deal, the defense secretary is lying to still-grieving 9/11 families. It's craven and cruel

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If Harris Will Be Different from Biden on Israel, This Is Her Chance to Show It

It's a regional war. Now that Israel has killed Hamas' leader on Iranian soil, it's set to get much worse. Deescalation is the only option. Will the VP choose it?

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Harris' National Security Adviser Sounds Like The Status Quo on Israel/Palestine

Will Harris' approach to Israel be any different from Biden's? Not if a recent speech by her senior foreign-policy aide is any indication

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Harrison Mann on Escalation in the Middle East

The U.S. Army major and intelligence analyst recently resigned over Gaza. With Lebanon in the balance, he walks FOREVER WARS through some nightmare scenarios

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Netanyahu, As Predicted, Humiliates Biden

With Lebanon on the brink, how many wet willies is Biden prepared to tolerate? PLUS: The "most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II" is a failure

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An Unmissable Gaza Documentary

Al-Jazeera's 'Fault Lines' program has put together a crucial report called "The Night Won't End." PLUS: Hanging at Guantanamo with a future Trump national security adviser

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A Saudi Nuke? Biden Is About To Give 'Mr Bone Saw' What He Needs [Director's Cut]

The U.S. president is pulling out all the stops to get a deal with Saudi Arabia. My latest for Zeteo

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'Great Power Competition' As Human Sacrifice

The Pentagon ran a disinformation campaign to make Filipinos distrust vaccinations rather than see them take China's free COVID vaccine. That's what 'Great Power Competition' truly is

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'Phase 2': The Shape of Israeli Rejectionism To Come

Biden has declared that Israel's reasonable war aims have been achieved. Netanyahu is in no position to agree. Only U.S. pressure can break the impasse. Will Biden apply it?