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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On Venezuela, Five 2020 Democratic Candidates Actually Support Trump. Five Oppose Him
The ordeal of Venezuela is forcing its way into the 2020 presidential campaign. The sputtering uprising led by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. has Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro gloating about a “failed coup,” while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton are demanding U.S. military options to ward the perception of...
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The U.S. Military Has 36 Code-Named Operations in Africa
The United States runs a global military empire whose workings are effectively unknown to the American people. Congress is supposed to conduct oversight of the armed services but it doesn’t. When the Senate held a hearing about the weekly U.S. attacks on Somalia–47 drone strikes in 2018 that killed hundreds of people–only Elizabeth Warren asked...
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Endless War Update: U.S. to Stay in Somalia Seven More Years
Somalia is America’s latest endless war, and it is often forgotten. There’s the Afghan war, now in its 18th year; the war against ISIS which originated from the invasion of Iraq 16 years ago. There’s the war in Yemen, now in its fourth year, despite the fact that both houses of Congress have voted to...
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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...
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