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A Ukrainian serviceman walks towards the front line in the city of Irpin, northern Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. - Russian forces are positioned around Kiev on March 12, 2022 and are "blocking" Mariupol, where thousands of people are suffering a devastating siege, in southern Ukraine, a country that has been bombed for more than two weeks. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's war crimes — and America's

Norman Solomon
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)

Putin's big mistake: Echoes of Bush

Paul Rosenberg
Evacuees cross a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022. - Ukraine dismissed Moscow's offer to set up humanitarian corridors from several bombarded cities on Monday after it emerged some routes would lead refugees into Russia or Belarus. The Russian proposal of safe passage from Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol and Sumy had come after terrified Ukrainian civilians came under fire in previous ceasefire attempts. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

We don't see all refugees the same way

Jonas Ecke - Common Dreams
A Palestinian woman pauses amid destroyed buildings in the northern district of Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip during an humanitarian truce on July 26, 2014. | A Ukrainian police officer stands in front of a damaged residential block hit by an early morning missile strike on February 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

In war, there are no "worthy" victims

Chris Hedges
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A burnt out truck allegedly belonging to a Russian commando unit on Victory Avenue on February 26,2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. According to Ukrainian soldiers present on Victory Avenue, the Russian commandos, wearing Ukrainian uniforms, allegedly tried to advance towards the center of Kiev and was stopped by the Ukrainian forces. Explosions and gunfire were reported around Kyiv on the second night of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has killed scores and prompted widespread condemnation from US and European leaders. (Laurent Van der Stockt for Le Monde/Getty Images)

War is the world's great evil: I know

Chris Hedges
Afghan residents and family members of the victims gather next to a damaged vehicle inside a house, day after a US drone airstrike in Kabul on August 30, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Now the U.S. war machine wants peace

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A peace activist holds a peace sign (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Can America now wake up, please?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A military transport plane flies over as 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)

Elliot Ackerman: How Biden blew it

Chauncey DeVega
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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
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
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
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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)

Out of Afghanistan at last — now Iraq?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Infantrymen of the US 8th Army pour ashore in the Subic Bay area of Luzon Island in the northern Philippines, en route to Manila during World War II. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Unraveling of the American empire

Chris Hedges
Toy soldier fighting on money (Getty Images)

Toxic combo: Militarism and the market

Doug Neiss
This picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows damaged military vehicles in the aftermath of US military air strikes at a militarised zone in the Jurf al-Sakhr area in Iraq's Babylon province (south of the capital) controlled by Kataeb Hezbollah, a hardline faction of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces paramilitaries. (AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and Biden's secret bombing wars

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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Yemeni pupils attend class on the first day of the new academic year, in a makeshift classroom in their school compound which was heavily damaged in the fighting between the government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels, in the country's third-city of Taez on October 7, 2020. (AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Biden end the war on children?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Sen. Tom Cotton (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Tom Cotton's embellishments go deeper

Roger Sollenberger
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump and Erik Prince (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Blackwater pardon sparks outrage

Roger Sollenberger
The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base on October 16, 2018. (Sylvie Lanteaume/AFP via Getty Images)

An end to all-war-all-the-time?

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
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Members of a private security company pose on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad, 18 September 2007. Iraq declared today it will review the operations of all security firms working in the war-ravaged country following a deadly shootout involving private US contractor Blackwater. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's shameful pardon: No surprise

Iveta Cherneva
US Army soldiers investigate the site of an explosion, January 18, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq (Getty/Mario Tama)

Spilling ink and spilling blood

William Astore, Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
Tony Blinken, Joe Biden and Cedric Richmond (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Alarm raised over Blinken foreign policy

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Trump's foreign policy: Pointless defeat

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
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