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Explosions during the first few minutes of the massive U.S. air attack on Baghdad, March 21, 2003. (Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)

Trump renews the flawed "war on terror"

Mohammad Ali Salih
Air strikes are continuing in Tehran and across Iran as part of the U.S. and Israel's military offensive against the Islamic Republic (Contributor/Getty Images)

Mainstream media rallies for war, again

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump speaks with members of the Joint Chiefs of staff before delivering his State of the Union address on February 24, 2026 amid a U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf threatening Iran. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Why Congress tried to dodge Iran vote

Russell Payne
US President Donald Trump fields a question from a reporter during a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump’s Iran bravado echoes Bush

Heather Digby Parton
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President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaks to the press following U.S. military actions in Venezuela on Jan. 3, 2026. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

The mass media's blind spot on Venezuela

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Venezuela playbook is a retread

Betty Medsger - The Conversation
Then-Vice President Dick Cheney attends the 2002 American Patriot Award ceremony in Washington, D.C. (Brooks Kraft / Getty Images)

Dick Cheney dead at 84

Blaise Malley
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Anti-war veterans say no to Hegseth

William Hartung - TomDispatch.com
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A Palestinian youth inspects the rubble from the destroyed house of the Qrayqea family in the Shujaiya district in eastern Gaza City on March 18, 2025 following Israeli strikes at dawn. (OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

From Guernica to Gaza

Norman Solomon - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Boat attack puts us in dangerous waters

Heather Digby Parton
Tim Walz and JD Vance (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Tim Walz test: Does service matter?

Eugene R. Fidell
U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

We didn't listen to Cassandra — again

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
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Actress Jane Fonda thanks the audience after accepting an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress, at the 44th annual Academy Awards, at the Music Center, April 10, 1972. (Getty Images)

Wartime protests at the Oscars

Nardos Haile
Noam Chomsky (Brill/ullstein bild/Getty Images)

Noam Chomsky on savage capitalism

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky - TomDispatch.com
US President George W. Bush make a point during his State of the Union address 20 January 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. In his speech, Bush had vowed that the United States "will never seek a permission slip" to go to war as he took aim in his annual State of the Union speech at critics of the invasion of Iraq. | Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of big businesses at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 24, 2022. - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his country wanted to remain part of the world economy and had no plans to harm it. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, killing dozens and triggering warnings from Western leaders of unprecedented sanctions. Russian air strikes hit military installations across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, forcing many Ukrainians flee their homes to the sounds of bombing. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Stephen JAFFE/AFP/Alexey NIKOLSKY)

When we were Putin: 20 years in Iraq

Juan Cole - TomDispatch.com
Former U.S. President George W Bush (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Bush condemns "brutal invasion of Iraq"

Igor Derysh
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Colin Powell, Donald Trump and QAnon Trump Supporters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Colin Powell paved the way for Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Colin Powell (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Capital Concerts)

Colin Powell dies from COVID

Igor Derysh
Anti-war protest at the Federal Building in Westwood on Sunday, October 6, 2002. Over 4,000 people gathered to voice their oppositon to a war against Iraq. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Some Americans were right all along

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Woman examining laboratory samples | Small bat hanging on a tree (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Rapeepong Puttakumwong/Solskin)

"Lab leak" is the new "WMDs in Iraq"

Amanda Marcotte
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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

Donald Rumsfeld: A legacy of violence

Erik Loomis - Alternet
Ronald Reagan, Liz Cheney and George W. Bush (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Stop whitewashing the "party of Reagan"

David Masciotra
Henry Kissinger, Charles Hill and George Shultz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/U.S. Navy/Eric Dietrich)

A man behind the scenes of history

Jim Sleeper
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (Getty/Michael B. Thomas)

Hawley once supported the war he opposes

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
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