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Ukraine wants to make its own Patriot missiles. That’s a bad idea.
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the G-7 summit in Evian, France, last week, he was ready with his latest set of…
‘Deconfliction cell’ is the first test of whether Israel can thwart Iran deal
On June 18, Iran and the U.S. signed an agreement, titled the “Islamabad Memorandum,” which committed both countries to an immediate and permanent…
The Iran War won’t kill dollar dominance. But Washington might.
Even if the framework agreement to end the U.S.-Israel-Iran War is successful, economic fallout from the conflict will persist at least through the…
The law that could help Congress kill Trump’s Iran deal
When the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Trump administration and the Iranian government leaked last week, lawmakers from both parties…
Team Trump squares up to rip Red and Blue critics of Iran peace deal
The Trump administration has spent the last several days blasting away at bipartisan critics in Congress and from the usually friendly rightwing media…
Unpopularity of war puts $1.5 trillion defense budget in crosshairs
The debates in the Senate and House Armed Services Committees this month over this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Pentagon’s annual…
Congress loves to buy failed jets and ships then make your kids pay
As Congress debates the 2027 defense budget, members must confront an essential reality: their children and grandchildren will be left footing the bill….
The forgotten fugitives of US forever wars
To commemorate World Refugee Day (June 20) without confronting the American militarism driving the crisis is just plain hypocrisy. Data from the United…
Hyper-militarized ‘war on narco-terror’ is not stopping drug flows
For the past year, the Trump administration has undertaken a lethal campaign of strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern…
Don’t be fooled by the new China-North Korea love fest
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang earlier this month celebrated their decades-long alliance, with both…
