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George W. Bush and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s fake invasion: An old GOP trick

Amanda Marcotte
Police patrol outside Fiserv Forum as the Republican National Convention begins on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

RNC: Anti-party in a ghost town

Andrew O'Hehir
A view of destruction after Israeli forces' withdrawal from Khan Yunis, Gaza on April 08, 2024. | Chile's Presidential Palace burns at the height of bombardment during the coup d'etat by the nation's armed forces, 1973 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Israel's kill lists have a long history

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Yemeni men walk 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)

There was another Oct. 7 — 23 years ago

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
U.S. Army Specialist stands next to a burning oil well at the Rumayla oil fields March 27, 2003 in Rumayla, Iraq. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

How U.S. war crimes led us here

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt kneels in front of the memorial in the former Jewish ghetto. | Mahatma Gandhi on his famous March to the Sea to make salt, in defiance of the British salt monopoly. | Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

We need an extraordinary act of peace

Keith A. Petty
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump exit the Oval Office as they arrive to participate in a tree planting ceremony in recognition of Earth Day and Arbor Day on the South Lawn of the White House on April 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Bikinigate: Trump fumes over leaked tape

Gabriella Ferrigine
A member of the Ukrainian special forces is seen in silhouette as he stands while a gas station burns after Russian attacks in the city of Kharkiv on March 30, 2022, during Russia's invasion launched on Ukraine. (FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

The war pimps are still lying to us

Chris Hedges
Caskets for the dead are carried towards the gravesite as relatives and friends attend a mass funeral for members of a family that is said to have been killed in a U.S. drone airstrike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES/Getty Images)

America's systemic racism is global

Norman Solomon
Former U.S. President George W Bush (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

U.S. continues quest to hide torture

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
A U.S. Army soldier stands by Iraqi's Oil Ministry after it was hit by missiles, November 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Our Iraq legacy: 20 years of hypocrisy

Norman Solomon
A member of the Ukrainian special forces is seen in silhouette as he stands while a gas station burns after Russian attacks in the city of Kharkiv on March 30, 2022, during Russia's invasion launched on Ukraine. (FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why I write about war

Chris Hedges - TomDispatch.com
A destroyed tank likely belonging to Russia / pro-Russian forces lies amidst rubble in the north of the ruined city. The battle between Russian / Pro Russian forces and the defencing Ukrainian forces lead by Azov battalion continues in the port city of Mariupol. (Maximilian Clarke/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

What really caused the war in Ukraine?

Jane Shevtsov
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

Increase gas and oil? Absolutely not

Alan Weisman
A picture taken on July 9, 2017, shows smoke billowing following an airstrike by US-led international coalition forces targeting Islamic State (IS) group in Mosul. Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul from jihadists, a US general said Saturday, as celebrations broke out among police forces in the city. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's war crimes — and ours

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Men In Military Uniforms Standing (Getty Images / Michael Davis / EyeEm)

Neocon war hawks: They're back!

Chris Hedges
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
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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