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At the close of his recent trip to China, on April 26 while still in Beijing, Sec. of State, Anthony Blinken, made an extremely bellicose statement to the press.  Blinken’s words marked a new phase in the narrative to prepare the American and European public for more conflict with China.   As Caitlin Johnstone has reminded … Continue reading "US Is Losing In Ukraine. Blame China, Says Blinken."

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Some media reported Japan’s recent policy change to sell weapons to the US as a break from its pacifist principle. However, Washington and Tokyo have been watering it down for a long time. Co-development of Next-Generation Aircraft On December 9, 2022, the leaders of the UK, Italy, and Japan issued a Joint Leader’s Statement regarding … Continue reading "Japan Sells Lethal Weapons Responding to US Demand, Using Ukraine as Excuse"

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Reprinted from The Nation with permission from the authors. Last week’s passage of the Ukraine aid package by both the House and the Senate showed if nothing else that bipartisanship – at least on matters of foreign policy – remains alive and well in Washington, with leading Democratic progressives joining Republican hawks to pass the … Continue reading "The Ukraine Aid Package Heightens the Risk of Escalation"

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Dear Antiwar.com Reader, There are two problems in the United States these days and they are closely related. The first problem is that the Biden Administration is in deep trouble on the foreign policy front and the trouble is almost certainly going to get worse. The Ukraine war is going badly for both Ukraine and … Continue reading "Biden’s Foreign Policy Has the US in Deep Trouble"

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I’ve been watching and thinking about the nationwide campus antiwar demonstrations in support of the suffering Palestinians of Gaza, and the appalling reaction to and “coverage” of those events. Something important needs to be addressed. I won’t be concerned here with the violence committed by anyone, including the police, or by lesser misconduct, such as … Continue reading "Another Bogus Antisemitism Scare"

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The ink was barely dry on President Biden’s signature transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine, when the mainstream media broke the news that this was not the parting shot in a failed US policy. The elites have no intention of shutting down this gravy train, which transports wealth from the middle … Continue reading "The Great Ukraine Robbery Is Not Over Yet"

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American foreign policy seems only to have two gears: ensuring everything pours in through military aid or ensuring nothing gets in through sanctions. Neither works, and sanctions have no more weakened Russia than military aid has helped Ukraine. On April 20, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the long-delayed $61 billion aid package for Ukraine. … Continue reading "The US Cannot Help Ukraine Win the War"

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Four more were wounded.

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Lloyd’s of London and Bermuda-based Arch Insurance deny the €400 million claim by Nord Stream AG, arguing their policies do not provide coverage for the 2022 underwater explosions that ruptured the natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea because the damage was inflicted by “a government.” But “the defendants’ argument is prima facie irrelevant,” says … Continue reading "What the Nord Stream Insurers Refusal To Pay Reveals About the Explosions"

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I am extremely proud to be a scholar with Antiwar.com. It has long been the most dedicated, principled, and unflinching opponent of the powerful bureaucratic war machine that continues to drag the American people into disastrous armed conflicts around the world. Antiwar.com’s role stands in marked contrast to most press outlets and think tanks, which … Continue reading "Antiwar.com’s Determined Struggle Against the War Machine"

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When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made two grammatical demands. One was that the word “the” precede “freedom of speech” in the First Amendment, and the other was a command in the Ninth Amendment that the “rights retained by the people,” rights … Continue reading "What Ever Happened to the Freedom of Speech?"

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Last week, Congress voted to send $95 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The largest portion was to Ukraine – $61 billion – after the Congress had previously approved $114 billion, for a total of $175 billion. The total GDP of Ukraine in 2022 was $160.5 billion. In other words, we basically … Continue reading "Congress Passes Mega-Billions More For Ukraine"

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Despite billions of dollars of military aid, equipment maintenance, training, intelligence, and planning from the United States and its partners in the political West, the war in Ukraine is going very badly. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, says “the situation at the front has escalated.” He says that Russia has … Continue reading "Troops on the Ground: Biden’s Plan for Ukraine"

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The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting, risking their own futures and very safety, because of some pathological hate for the Jewish people. They are doing so in a complete rejection of, and … Continue reading "American Intifada for Gaza: What Should We Expect?"

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The late Murray Polner wrote this article for Antiwar.com in 2000.  On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed four college students and wounded nine others – one of them, Dean Kahler, is paralyzed below the waist – on the campus of Kent State University. Nobody was found guilty of the bloodletting. On that awful … Continue reading "The May 4th Deaths: Kent State 54 Years Ago"

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My life has changed pretty dramatically since I started working full-time as the News Editor of Antiwar.com back in 2020. I started out in a studio apartment in Brooklyn and now live in an old farmhouse in rural Virginia (far from Washington DC). The way I look at the world has also changed quite a … Continue reading "The News Never Stops"

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I’m too young to remember the campus convulsions of the 1960s, but older friends who were there tell me that the growing campus protest movement against US support for Israel’s war in Palestine bears a striking resemblance to those days. I happen to support that movement’s goals, at least to the extent of wanting to … Continue reading "Campus Protests: The Kids May Not Be Alright, But They Are (Mostly) Right"

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Twelve people were wounded.

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Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making. The impressive number of 17 seats won by Israel’s extremist religious party, Shas, in the 1999 elections, was a watershed moment in the history of these … Continue reading "The Ideological Coup: How Disciples of Kahane Became the New Face of Israel"

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Jack F. Matlock, Jr. served from 1987 until 1991 as the US ambassador in the Soviet Union and from 1981 until 1983 in Czechoslovakia. Es served in the National Security Council under President Reagan and participated in several arms control summits, including in Reykjavik in 1986. In total he served 35 years in the US … Continue reading "‘Ukraine Today Is Not a Democracy’: An Interview with Former Ambassador Jack Matlock"

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