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After signing a military decree on May 18, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located in the northern Occupied West Bank, the Israeli government has informed the US Biden Administration that it will not turn the area into a new settlement. The latter revelation was reported by Axios on May Continue reading "A Man Without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is Provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank" The post A Man Without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is Provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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This is the third part of a three-part series on our recent trip to Russia. Read part one and part two. We spent nearly 20 days in Russia, including 5 days in Crimea. During our journey, we spent around 70 hours in trains riding in close quarters with Russians who we had never met before Continue reading "Reflections on Russia and Crimea: The Hate Goes One Way" The post Reflections on Russia and Crimea: The Hate Goes One Way appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 6/4/23 10:00pm
U.S. leaders rarely have been noted for being able to gauge changing sentiment in the international arena and adjusting their foreign policy accordingly. The Biden administration, however, may be setting new records for the tone-deaf quality of its policies. Three incidents in the past few weeks illustrate the problem. There has been obvious movement in Continue reading "The Biden Administrations Latest Tone-Deaf Foreign Policy Positions" The post The Biden Administrations Latest Tone-Deaf Foreign Policy Positions appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 6/4/23 9:52pm
One more was wounded. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 14 Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 6/1/23 10:00pm
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post columnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to follow. And as it happens, hes positively bullish about the prospect of Ukraine handing Russia a decisive defeat in Continue reading "The Compulsion To Intervene" The post The Compulsion To Intervene appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 6/1/23 10:00pm
In April, French President Emmanuel Macron emerged from three days of meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing sounding as comfortable talking to Beijing as he does talking to Washington. The US is pressuring Europe to decouple from China by reconsidering their relationship and breaking their significant economic ties. But when Macron traveled to Continue reading "When Spain Sounds Like France (and France Sounds Like China)" The post When Spain Sounds Like France (and France Sounds Like China) appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 6/1/23 10:00pm
With the war in Ukraine raging, and Putin threatening to use nuclear weapons, the world is moving ever closer to complete annihilation. According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website, This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though Continue reading "Tonights Movie at 90 Seconds to Midnight: FailSafe" The post Tonights Movie at 90 Seconds to Midnight: <I>Fail Safe</I> appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/31/23 10:00pm
We may even cheer on those who ask us to forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear. And rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy Continue reading "FISA and Freedom" The post FISA and Freedom appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/31/23 10:00pm
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan traveled to Saudi Arabia and met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan the Crown Prince of the UAE, and Indias National Security Advisor Ajit Doval earlier this month. The White House stated the meeting was to advance their shared vision of a more secure and prosperous Continue reading "How the UAE and China Set Their Sights on Southern Yemen" The post How the UAE and China Set Their Sights on Southern Yemen appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/31/23 8:22pm
Another 29 were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Monthly Roundup</I>: 53 Killed in May appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/30/23 10:00pm
When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope that it might be a forum for these rising economic powers from the Global South to discuss their advocacy for peace in Ukraine with the wealthy Western G7 countries that are militarily allied Continue reading "When Will US Join Global Call To End Ukraine War?" The post When Will US Join Global Call To End Ukraine War? appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/30/23 10:00pm
In the very early days of the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was open to negotiating a peace. The proposed peace could have ended the war, before tens of thousands of Ukrainians had died and Ukraine’s infrastructure was devastated, on terms that satisfied Ukraine’s goals. But the US pressured Ukraine to go on Continue reading "Is the US Losing Control of Ukraine?" The post Is the US Losing Control of Ukraine? appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/30/23 10:00pm
As Henry Kissinger celebrated his 100th year birthday, during this Memorial weekend, mainstream media lauded his brilliance and lifetime of achievement. Predictably ignored, were the literally thousands of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese children, whose chance to reach adulthood was cruelly severed by Kissinger- promoted airstrikes. The Washington Post ran a proud column by Kissinger’s son Continue reading "One Hundred Years of Kissinger" The post One Hundred Years of Kissinger appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/29/23 10:00pm
It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how the West should behave in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. But does the centenarian politician have the answers? Every major global conflict that involved the US and its NATO allies in the past Continue reading "Prophets of Doom: Kissinger and the Intellectual Decline of the West" The post Prophets of Doom: Kissinger and the Intellectual Decline of the West appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/29/23 10:00pm
This is the second part of a three-part series on our recent trip to Russia. Read part one. In May of this year, we took the long, 27-hour train ride from Moscow to Crimea to see how life is there and what the sentiment of the people are as the US and Ukraine sharpen their Continue reading "What We Saw and Heard in Crimea" The post What We Saw and Heard in Crimea appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/29/23 10:00pm
Today is the 137th anniversary of Randolph Bournes birthday. Antiwar.com named its parent institute for this early 20th century antiwar activist. Read Jeff Riggenbachs biography of Bourne. [Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode Randolph Bourne (1886–1918)] Randolph Bourne was an American intellectual journalist who flourished for a few years in the second decade of Continue reading "Celebrate Our Namesakes Birthday: TheBrilliance of RandolphBourne" The post Celebrate Our Namesakes Birthday: The Brilliance of Randolph Bourne appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/29/23 10:00pm
It should not come as a surprise that U.S. officials and members of the foreign policy establishment have falsely portrayed Ukraine as a noble democracy. Such deceptions in pursuit of assorted US foreign policy objectives around the globe are nothing new. Throughout the Cold War, Washington routinely contended that friendly dictatorships were members of the Continue reading "Libertarian Apologists for Ukraines Authoritarianism" The post Libertarian Apologists for Ukraines Authoritarianism appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/28/23 10:00pm
On May 3, two slow moving drones flew over the Kremlin and then exploded in flames when the Russian military forced them down. Whether the drone attack was a serious attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s life or not, Moscow perceived it as one, announcing that Last night, the Kiev regime attempted a drone strike Continue reading "Drones Over the Kremlin: Is Ukraine Trying To Assassinate Putin?" The post Drones Over the Kremlin: Is Ukraine Trying To Assassinate Putin? appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/28/23 10:00pm
During the summer of 2018 my family and I were passing through Oklahoma. We were going home to central Texas from a family camp where my wife had been both a camper and counselor growing up. It was a great week. Instead of driving through McDonalds, we decided to get a real meal from a Continue reading "Memorial Day: Honor the Fallen by Ending Wars" The post Memorial Day: Honor the Fallen by Ending Wars appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/28/23 10:00pm
This is reprinted from the Orange County Register with permission. Late last Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a heavily redacted April 2022 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinion and order dealing with the highly controversial FISA Section 702 intelligence collection program, which is set to expire on New Years Continue reading "Time To End the FBIs FISA Follies" The post Time To End the FBIs FISA Follies appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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[l] at 5/28/23 1:40pm
Six more were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Two Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

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