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| Nov 20, 2025 | Why The Trump Administration’s Comparison Of Antifa To Hamas, ISIS, And MS-13 Makes No Sense | When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem compared antifa to the transnational criminal group MS-13, Hamas and the Islamic State group in October 2025, she equated a nonhierarchical, loosely organized movement of antifascist activists wi... |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Trump isn’t sending troops to cities with highest crime rates, data shows | By Amanda Watford, Stateline
President Donald Trump has argued that he needs to deploy National Guard troops across state lines to protect federal personnel and property or to support overwhelmed local law enforcement in cities he claims ar... |
| Oct 22, 2024 | The Cost of Conflict: Israel's Economic Dilemma Amid Ongoing War | The echoes of war resonate deeply within Israel's economy. The recent conflict has been a double-edged sword, slicing through growth and labor supply. In the wake of Hamas's attacks, Israel's economic output plummeted by 5.6%. This decline ... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | Israel’s wars are expensive. Paying the bill could force tough choices | The war hurt growth and the labor supply
In the three months after Hamas attacked, Israel’s economic output shrank 5.6%, the worst performance of any of the 38 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group ... |
| Oct 7, 2024 | US spends a record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last Oct. 7 | The financial costs were calculated by Linda J. Bilmes, a professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, who has assessed the full costs of U.S. wars since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and fellow researchers William D. Hartung... |
| Mar 2, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Sabine von Mering: Peace is necessary to give the climate a chance | By Sabine von Mering
When my son was a teenager and he first began to notice what I do for work, he used to roll his eyes when he saw the books I was reading: “Why do you like reading about all this depressing stuff, Mom? World War II, the ... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | God's Man in Washington | Redeem now
It all started with bacon bits. There were bacon bits on my wedge salad. As a semi-observant Jewish guest sitting down to a private dinner at the swank Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC, I debated whether to speak up. Then Chey... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | Sam Altman wants to raise up to $7 trillion. That's, uh, a lot of dough. | Tech Sam Altman wants to raise up to $7 trillion. That's, uh, a lot of dough.
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| Oct 26, 2023 | Mental Health Watchdog Seminar: Suicide, Veteran Rights and Solutions | The headquarters for CCHR Florida are located in downtown Clearwater.
While the veteran suicide rate is down, nearly 17 soldiers still take their own lives every day and as reported by the Pentagon, suicides in the active-duty military incr... |
| Sep 24, 2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Lindsay Koshgarian and Alliyah Lusuegro: Climate is the fight of our lifetime. Our federal budget should reflect that. | By Lindsay Koshgarian and Alliyah Lusuegro
As the hottest summer in human history approached its end, tens of thousands of climate marchers rallied in New York to call for bold climate solutions. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Washington lurched t... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | PTSD Awareness Month: Psychiatric Drugs Prescribed for PTSD Linked to Stubbornly High Rates of Veteran Suicides | The psychiatric drugs typically prescribed for PTSD carry the risk of suicidal thoughts and actions.
Researchers have found that antidepressants double the risk of suicide.
The Citizens Commission on Human Right’s documentary, Hidden Enemy:... |
| May 1, 2023 | The US ‘war on terror’, 20 years after ‘mission accomplished’ | Washington, DC – Two decades ago, on May 1, 2003, then-US President George W Bush declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” in a speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with a banner behind him proclaiming “mission accomplished”.... |
| Mar 18, 2023 | CCHR Florida is Hosting a Mental Health Seminar on the Rights of Veterans | Many veterans face an uncertain return to civilian life which can include drug abuse, pain or loneliness after discharge from the military. It is estimated that one in ten veterans suffers from some sort of substance abuse which is higher t... |
| Mar 15, 2023 | What is the legacy of the US-led invasion in Iraq? | On Monday, Wednesday March 15 at 19:30 GMT:
It’s been nearly 20 years since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq ushered in an enduring period of chaos and devastation. As attention on the country wavers in and out of focus, the anniversary m... |
| Dec 12, 2022 | Pentagon Profiteers: Executive Compensation In The Arms Industry | If Congress has its way, funding for the Department of Defense and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy will reach more than $850 billion in Fiscal Year 2023, far higher than spending at the height of the Cold War or ... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Citizens Commission on Human Rights: Mental Health and Veteran’s Rights Seminar | 30,177 active duty personnel and veterans who served in the military after 9/11 have died by suicide - compared to the 7,057 service members killed in combat in those same 20 years.
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| Oct 25, 2022 | Biden knows there are limits on American power, but they're nowhere to be found in his first major security strategy | President Joe Biden at a Lockheed Martin facility that makes weapons such as Javelin anti-tank missiles, in Alabama on May 3. Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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| Jul 6, 2022 | CCHR: The Hidden Constant in Military Suicides – Psychiatric Treatment | The Hidden Enemy: Inside Psychiatry's Covert Agenda
Approximately 20 veterans a day take their own lives, and veterans accounted for 14 percent of all adult suicide deaths in the U.S. in 2016
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| Jun 28, 2022 | National PTSD Awareness Day: Time to Commit to Better Treatment for Our Vets and Others Who Experience Traumatic Events | Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs for military personnel from 2005 to 2011 rose at 30 times the rate among civilians. By 2013, one in six service members was taking a least one psychiatric drug.
An estimated 30,177 active duty service mem... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | War Profiteering: Why big tech companies love war and how they rake in billions from the US government’s $750 billion defense budget | During President Trump’s final year in office, the United States national defense budget requested was $752.9 billion. Then this year, Congress increased that number by $25 billion, ultimately landing at $778 billion for fiscal 2022.
As th... |
| Jan 12, 2022 | Letters to the editor: Neptune Mountaineering; emergency alarms; military spending; unvaxxed; Balfour | Melissa Hinebauch: Neptune Mountaineering: I cannot say thank you enough
I cannot thank Neptune Mountaineering enough for the kindness, compassion, support, and free items they have offered my family and the entire community in the wake of ... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | What You Need to Know About the New Climate Security Reports | Last week, the Department of Defense, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security and National Security Council released four distinct reports on the effects of climate change on national security. These... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Infographic: US military presence around the world | In the early morning hours of August 31, the last American soldiers lifted off from Kabul airport, officially ending the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the longest in US history.
At its peak in 2011, the US had approximately 100,000 troops acr... |
| Sep 9, 2021 | Remembering the Gains of the Afghanistan War | The end of a war is a time to reflect. So is a milestone anniversary like the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11. Now, in September 2021, the two are bound up together—the end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, not coincidentally, taking place in cl... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | How 9/11 gave rise to a massive ‘Camo Economy’ | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
Like many of us, Wendy Masiello remembers exactly where she was and what she was doing on 9/11. In her case, she was serving as the director o... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Biden to deliver speech on Afghanistan after US finalises withdrawal | U.S. President Joe Biden pauses while giving remarks on the worsening crisis in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House August 16, 2021.
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US President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to deliver a speech on ... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Biden to deliver speech on Afghanistan after US finalizes withdrawal | U.S. President Joe Biden pauses while giving remarks on the worsening crisis in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House August 16, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to deliver a speech on the... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Last US military planes depart Kabul airport, marking an end to America’s 20-year presence in Afghanistan | A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul on August 30, 2021. Aamir Qureshi/Getty Images
The last US military planes left Kabul airport early on Tuesday local time.
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| Aug 27, 2021 | Afghan Americans are devastated by the Taliban takeover and calling on the US to ‘own up to its mistakes’ | A crowd of mostly men gathers on the tarmac of Kabul airport on August 16, 2021. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty
Afghan Americans are distraught by the Taliban takeover but also mobilizing to help people get out.
They’re calling on the Biden adm... |
| Aug 26, 2021 | The Graveyard of Empires: The real reason behind the $2.26 trillion U.S. war in Afghanistan that resulted in 2,372 U.S. military deaths and 801,000 deaths | Earlier today, 12 US service members including 11 marines and a Navy medic were killed in the Kabul, Afghanistan airport attack, according to a report from the BBC. So far, more than 60 people have died including civilians and 12 US militar... |
| Aug 22, 2021 | I’m an Afghan woman with family in Kabul. The West’s lack of respect for the Afghan people is maddening. | Afghan nationals arrive at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman on August 20, 2021, to return back to Afghanistan AFP/Getty Images
As Western leaders blame Afghans for the Taliban takeover, they ignore their own failures... |
| Aug 17, 2021 | America has spent at Least $6.7 Trillion on Wars in 20 Years. Here is How the Defense Industry Lobbied Congress and the Pentagon | Did you know that 8% of the U.S. national debt was spent fighting a 2-decade-old war in Afghanistan? According to estimates from Brown University’s Costs of War Project, the United States has spent a total of at least $2.26 trillion in 20 y... |
| May 9, 2021 | The human-focused startups of the hellfire | Disasters may not always be man-made, but they are always responded to by humans. There’s a whole panoply of skills and professions required today to respond to even the tiniest emergency, and that doesn’t even include the needs during pre-... |
| Apr 13, 2021 | Biden to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September | US President Joe Biden is set to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan over the coming months in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11, according to reports. |
| Apr 5, 2021 | Sen. Inhofe Misses the Mark On Pentagon Spending | It’s budget season in Washington, and just as the cherry blossoms come out in the spring, so do Pentagon budget hawks bemoaning the failure to radically increase the department’s already massive budget. Such is the case with Sen. James Inho... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | The 3% Delusion On Pentagon Spending | Reports that the Biden administration’s Pentagon budget proposal may come in at roughly last year’s level are disappointing given the need to invest in other urgent security priorities. At $740 billion per year, spending on the Pentagon and... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Three Reasons To Reduce Pentagon Spending — Now | Reducing the Pentagon budget – once a non-starter in official Washington – has a growing constituency in Congress and with the broader public, and for good reason. The greatest challenges we face as a nation – pandemics, climate change, rac... |
| Jan 3, 2020 | US president Donald Trump and Iran are sparking fears of a war that would likely be devastating to both sides | (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The US could be near the brink of war with Iran again after months of rising tensions.
The Pentagon on Thursday announced the US had killed a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.
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| Oct 11, 2019 | Ellen's Friendship With George Bush Won't Save America, or Anyone | Story: Ellen DeGeneres hangs out with pal George W. Bush at an American football game.
Reasonable take: Bit weird to see a gay woman joshing around with an infamous anti-gay war criminal.
Brain rot: My friendship with Bush will fix America.... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | The Important, Justifiable and Constrained Role Of Nationality In Foreign Intelligence Surveillance | This Lawfare post summarizes a longer essay we are publishing today with the Hoover Working Group on National Security, Technology and Law. Our essay addresses whether governments ever have a justified basis for treating targets of surveill... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Why Are We Losing in Afghanistan? | After much soul-searching, President Donald Trump intends to order the deployment of more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Although he avoided giving a specific number of troops in his speech to the nation Monday night, the president laid out th... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Afghanistan has collapsed into chaos | Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had just finished receiving his morning briefing last Wednesday when the windows at the presidential palace shattered. The cause: a massive truck bomb, detonated less than 1,000 meters away, during rush hour in... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | What Trump Should Do About Terrorism (but Probably Won't) | Since the start of his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly warned about “a major threat from radical Islamic terrorism,” and he has tweeted (and Twitter is the forum used for all serious discussions of policy) as follows:
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| Jan 26, 2017 | Want to “Take the Oil”? Crunch the Numbers First | Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in Markaz.
I had assumed that Mr. Trump’s assertion on the campaign trail that the United States should have taken and kept Iraq’s oil was nothing but electioneering. The fact that he has repeat... |
| Apr 11, 2016 | A New Way of Engaging Pakistan | Since 9/11, the United States has furnished Pakistan with some $33 billion dollars in economics assistance, foreign military sales, and lucrative “reimbursements” under the coalition support funds (CSF) program. The United States has also p... |
| Oct 11, 2015 | Focusing PRISM: An Answer to European Privacy Concerns? | In my last post, I argued that surveillance reform is the only way to ensure continued data flows between the US and the European Union. In this post, I will begin to explore whether there is a practical way to amend US surveillance law tha... |
| Guantanamo Bay: ‘The legal equivalent of outer space’ | Twenty years ago, the world was still reeling from the events of 9/11 that rocked the very foundations of the United States. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the Bush administration began looking for ways to show the American peop... |
| The images of Afghans falling from the sky close the book on America's tragic and futile response to 9/11 | Afghans climb onto the roof of a jet at Kabul's airport on August 16. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| The US Navy's new climate plan doesn't say much about its biggest polluters: its own ships and planes | USS Donald Cook approaches USNS Supply and USS Porter to receive fuel and stores, in the North Atlantic, April 28, 2020. Dan Rosenbaum/HMS Kent
The US Navy has unveiled a plan to halve its energy emissions by the end of the decade.
The plan... |
| NYT: боевые действия США за последние 20 лет сделали беженцами 37 млн человек | Военное вмешательство США, начатое как борьба с терроризмом после трагедии 11 сентября 2001 года, вынудило по меньшей мере 37 млн человек стать беженцами. Об этом говорится в отчете проекта "Цена войны" Института международных и о... |
| Afghanistan could be a terrorist haven again, says ex-national security advisor John Bolton | The Taliban’s return to power could once again turn Afghanistan into a haven for terror groups operating in the region, former U.S. national security advisor John Bolton said on Thursday.
He said the U.S. had gone into Afghanistan in 2001 t... |
| A return to Cold War levels of Pentagon funding would actually require reducing the US defense budget | President John F. Kennedy looks over the Berlin Wall near Checkpoint Charlie, June 26, 1963. Anonymous/AP
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| Maersk launches the world’s first offshore electric vessel-charging station venture | Maersk Supply Service, a subsidiary of Danish shipping giant Maersk, is launching Stillstrom – an offshore vessel-charging venture to support the decarbonization of the maritime industry by eliminating idle emissions.
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| Ex-CIA analyst chastises media and politicians for not covering the ongoing struggle to get people out of Afghanistan | Matt Zeller Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, left and Veterans, refugee advocates, and Afghan evacuees speaks during a press conference to urge members of Congress to pass an Afghan Adjustment Act, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 14, 2... |
| ‘Intelligence failure of the highest order’ — How Afghanistan fell to the Taliban so quickly | After nearly two decades of war, more than 6,000 American lives lost, over 100,000 Afghans killed and more than $2 trillion spent by the U.S., the speed of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has shocked the world.
U.S. defense officials re... |