Last week, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand coupled a call for an end to America’s “endless wars” with denunciation of President’ Trump’s “unpredictable and often contradictory positions.” The junior senator from New York called for repealing the post 9/11 congressional resolution used to justify military intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Somalia. As president, she said...
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Antiwar.com: Why Trump Is Trying to Link Iran with al-Qaeda
In a city of unwieldly acronyms AUMF is the least pronounceable–and perhaps most important. AUMF stands for Authorization for Use of Military Force. It is the legal justification for the endless wars that the US is fighting in 40 percent of the world’s countries. (Source is solid: Watson Institute at Brown University) Antiwar.com has the...
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Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic Defense
If Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has a certain New York panache that drives conservatives batty, Rep. Elissa Slotkin does Midwestern Nice in a way that will irritate no one. And I mean that as a compliment. Slotkin, a former CIA officer and Pentagon policymaker, was just elected from Michigan’s 8th District, a diverse swath of central...
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John Kiriakou, ex-CIA, Worries About War Without End
In Consortium News,John Kiriakou, former CIA officer turned whistleblower, warns of a Senate bill that he says “gives Trump carte blanche for war.” He’s talking about Senate Resolution 59, introduced by Senators Bob Corker (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-VA). The measure is intended to “provide an updated, transparent, and...