Trump invokes wartime powers to expand fossil fuel production amid rising energy costs
Defense Production Act orders authorize federal support for oil, coal, liquefied natural gas, and grid infrastructure as industry profits increase during Iran conflict.
DNC leaders are pretending that U.S. weapons don’t enable the slaughter in Gaza
DNC leaders move to block arms embargo resolution as youth Democrats demand action on Gaza.
US biker gang members found running security at Gaza aid sites
A BBC investigation identified at least 10 members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club working for UG Solutions at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites backed by Israel and US President Donald Trump. Rights groups warn the gang’s history of Islamophobia makes their presence dangerous and unlawful.
The Pentagon budget still rising, 40 years later
The rationale for spending more than $700 billion a year on the Pentagon—and well over $1.2 trillion for national security writ large—simply does not exist.
The New Yorker publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq massacre photos Marines ‘didn’t want the world...
The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.
Israel bombs home of Gaza pediatrician, killing 9 of her 10 kids, in latest...
Democracy Now! reached Graeme Groom, a volunteer doctor from the U.K. who treated Adam al-Najjar after the attack.
Corruption at former BOMARC and Nike Hercules bases
Humanity continues to face two simultaneous dangers—nuclear war and climate change…
Lessons from the movement to stop the ‘war on terror’
Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The missing three-letter word in the Iran crisis
It’s always the oil. While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G-20 summit in Japan,...
Can the nuclear weapons genie be put back in the bottle?
The vehicle today for eliminating nuclear weapons is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, passed at the United Nations by a vote of 122 nations in 2017 - and it's not supported by the U.S., Russia, or China.