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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
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
Soldiers from Afghan Security forces travel on a armed vehicle along a road in Panjshir province of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021. (AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

20 years of war, up in smoke

Jon Queally - Common Dreams
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghan president flees country, Taliban

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
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Smoke and flames rise after Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza on May 13, 2021. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How U.S. policy kills Palestinians

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City targeted the Ansar compound, linked to the Hamas movement, in the Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021. - Israel pounded Gaza and deployed extra troops to the border as Palestinians fired barrages of rockets back, with the death toll in the enclave on the fourth day of conflict climbing to over 100. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel's big lie — abetted by U.S.

Chris Hedges
Smoke rises after Israeli forces destroyed a building in Gaza City where Al-Jazeera and The Associated Press had their offices. (Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israeli airstrike targets media offices

Brett Bachman
Smoke and flames rise after Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza on May 13, 2021. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israeli official: "Gaza Will Burn"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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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
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Washington’s delusion of endless rule

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a virtual event hosted by the Munich Security Conference in the East Room of the White House on February 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. In his remarks, President Biden stressed the United States' commitment to NATO after four years of the Trump administration undermining the alliance. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

Is this Biden's return to "diplomacy"?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi waits for a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Cairo September 13, 2014. Kerry arrived in Cairo on the latest leg of a regional tour to forge a coalition against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Biden shut down aid to Egypt?

Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold
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Robert Malley and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's big test on Iran coming soon

Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold
Israeli flag (Getty Images)

Anti-Semitism and Israel: A tangled knot

Doug Neiss
A shot of Lucian Truscott taken on the Lebanon/Israel border on Christmas day 1974, the Golan Heights in the background. (Jonathan Broder)

My Christmas among the spies

Lucian K. Truscott IV
President-elect Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Chase Center November 07, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. After four days of counting the high volume of mail-in ballots in key battleground states due to the coronavirus pandemic, the race was called for Biden after a contentious election battle against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images)

U.S. and the world: Now with less terror

Heather Digby Parton
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The U.S. of A(rms)

William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump | The Iranian flag (Getty Images/Salon)

Iran issues warrant for Trump's arrest

Roger Sollenberger
Flowers of Gundelia (Gundelia tournefortii) (Zeynel Cebeci / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA )

The battle over a humble plant

Shira Rubin - Undark
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Economic warfare damages Iran's youth

Manata Hashemi - The Conversation
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FILE -- In this Oct. 1, 2016 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks during a conference in the West Bank City of Bethlehem. Abbas told Palestinian diplomats in Bahrain on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, that he will take "unprecedented steps" to end the political division between his West Bank-based autonomy government and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Measures will likely include more financial pressure on Gaza, after he recently slashed salaries of 60,000 ex-civil servants and members of the security forces by one-third. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File) (AP)

Abbas condemns Middle East peace plan

Evelyn Leopold - Independent Media Institute
US Army soldiers investigate the site of an explosion, January 18, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq (Getty/Mario Tama)

The Iraq War: 16 years and $2 trillion

Neta C. Crawford - The Conversation
FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File) (AP)

Why the war in Libya will never end

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
A person holds up a sign reading "now war" as protesters gather near the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio January 9, 2020. (Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. recycles a lie to target Iran

Nicolas J. S. Davies - Independent Media Institute
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