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Topic: Endless War

Members of the US Army 1st Division 9th Regiment 1st Battalion unload heavy combat equipment including Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles at the railway station near the Pabrade military base in Lithuania, on October 21, 2019. (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Stop calling it a "defense" budget

Norman Solomon
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet is parked on the tarmac at the Payerne Air Base as a Boeing McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet takes off in the background, during flight and ground tests, as Switzerland is looking for a new fighter jet to replace its aging fleet, on June 7, 2019 in Payerne. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Congress won't question war machine

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Digital identity fingerprint scanner (Getty Images)

The Pentagon already knows who you are

Chauncey DeVega
Washington DC General David Petraeus attends his confirmation hearing for CIA Director, 
June 23, 2011 (ImageCatcher News Service/Corbis via Getty Images)

Our chaotic Afghan exit was perfect

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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A peace activist holds a peace sign (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Can America now wake up, please?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Getty Images/MARCUS YAM/LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Do we honor the dead with more killing?

Sam Carliner
Smoke Pours From The World Trade Center After Being Hit By Two Planes September 11, 2001 In New York City. (Craig Allen/Getty Images)

Who got canceled after 9/11, and why

Andrew O'Hehir
Standing atop rubble with retired New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith, President George W Bush rallies firefighters and rescue workers during an impromptu speech at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York City, New York, September 14, 2001. Image courtesy National Archives. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

9/11 and the birth of the Big Lie

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Afghan commandos forces patrol during ongoing US-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province. Afghan security forces are conducting most of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent groups as US troops operate alongside them in a training capacity and are frequently on the front lines. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

Can America defund the "warfare state"?

Chauncey DeVega
In this handout image provided by the Ministry of Defence, the British armed forces work with the U.S. military to evacuate eligible civilians and their families out of the country on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (MoD Crown Copyright via Getty Images)

Biden turns the page of history

Brian Karem
Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

Drone attacks: The madness continues

Norman Solomon
Recently-arrived refugees from Afghanistan seen at a temporary camp at the U.S. Army's Rhine Ordnance Barracks (ROB), where they are being temporarily housed, on August 30, 2021 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Several U.S. military facilities with the capacity to house up to several thousand evacuees are participating, in an operation called Operation Allied Refuge. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

A crushing blow to empire? Good

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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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
A U.S. Chinook military helicopter flies above the US embassy in Kabul on August 15, 2021. Several hundred employees of the US embassy in Kabul have been evacuated from Afghanistan, a US defense official said on August 15, 2021, as the Taliban entered the capital. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

After the fall: Media erases reality

Gregory Shupak
China's 600 km/h high-speed maglev transportation system makes debut on July 20, 2021, in Qingdao, Shandong Province. (Zhang Jingang/VCG via Getty Images)

Why Americans can’t have nice things

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Afghan security forces patrol in Kabul on Aug. 15. In a statement, the Taliban said they do not intend to enter Kabul "by force or war, but to negotiate with the other side to enter peacefully." (Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

After 20 years, Taliban is back

Jon Queally - Common Dreams
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A B-52 drops an X-15 rocket plane after carrying it to launching altitude for a test flight (Dean Conger/Corbis via Getty Images)

Bombing Afghan cities: Final failure

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal and their victory in the Afghan conflict on US in Afghanistan, in Alingar district of Laghman Province on March 2, 2020. - The Taliban said on March 2 they were resuming offensive operations against Afghan security forces, ending the partial truce that preceded the signing of a deal between the insurgents and Washington. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghan exit: End of the American empire?

Chris Hedges
Pakistani tribesmen hold up a placard of alleged drone strike victims during a protest in Islamabad on February 25, 2012, against the US drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal region. The protesters demanded an immediate end to drone attacks and compensation for those who lost relatives or property, as well as condemning this week's burning of Korans at a US-run base in neighbouring Afghanistan. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

Drone whistleblower, in his own words

Chris Hedges
In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Afghan commandos forces patrol during ongoing US-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province. Afghan security forces are conducting most of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent groups as US troops operate alongside them in a training capacity and are frequently on the front lines. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

Out of Afghanistan at last — now Iraq?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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A Yemeni boy walks past a mural depicting a US drone and reading " Why did you kill my family" on December 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden releases Trump's secret kill rules

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
A US soldier holds the national flag ahead of a handover ceremony at Leatherneck Camp in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on April 29, 2017. US Marines returned to Afghanistan's volatile Helmand April 29, where American troops faced heated fighting until NATO's combat mission ended in 2014, as embattled Afghan security forces struggle to beat back the resurgent Taliban. The deployment of some 300 Marines to the poppy-growing southern province came one day after the militants announced the launch of their "spring offensive", and as the Trump administration seeks to craft a new strategy in Afghanistan. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Out of Afghanistan? Nope, not exactly

Norman Solomon
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event on the American Rescue Plan in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act into law that will send aid to millions of Americans struggling from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

10 problems with Biden's foreign policy

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Toy soldier fighting on money (Getty Images)

Toxic combo: Militarism and the market

Doug Neiss
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