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![Portrait of Josh White, Cafe Society (Downtown), New York, New York, circa June 1946.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-959652494-400x300.jpg)
New Book Digs Into Government Files to Keep Alive Memory of Radical Folk Artists
“The Folk Singers and the Bureau” is a vast treatise on the sad interplay between the red-baiters and the folkies.
![U.S. Army soldiers return home from a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan on December 10, 2020, at Fort Drum, New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/2020_1217-troops-400x300.jpg)
Instead of Propping Up a Dying Empire, It’s Time to Finally End US Wars
The “war on terror” has truly become a war of generations.
![Then-Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaks at the 2016 Concordia Summit at Grand Hyatt New York on September 19, 2016, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/11/2020_1124-anthony-blinken-400x300.jpg)
Biden’s Pick for Secretary of State Has a Record of Militarism
Antony Blinken -- a backer of the Iraq War with right-wing views on Israel -- is a return to the status quo ante.
![Mike Pompeo greets someone as he exits a plane](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/11/2020_1123-pompeo-400x300.jpg)
Reports of Meeting Between Netanyahu, Pompeo, bin Salman Spark Fear of Iran War
Last week, Donald Trump asked his senior advisers for options to bomb Iran's primary nuclear energy site.
![A Burkina Faso soldier patrols a district welcoming Internally Displaced People (IDP) from northern Burkina Faso in Dori, on February 3, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/11/2020_1112-displacement-400x300.jpg)
Climate Refugees Will Soon Surpass Those Displaced by War
The world is already failing to deal with the almost 80 million people driven from their homes by violence.
![A woman stands in the foreground as a missile is launched into the sky](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/09/2020_0924-nukes-400x300.jpg)
We Are Closer to Nuclear Annihilation Than We Have Ever Been
In over three years, Donald Trump has seemingly threatened at least three nations with nuclear weapons.
![U.S. Cuts Aid to Yemen While Fuels War and Famine](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/09/s1-yemen-400x300.jpg)
US Cuts Aid to Yemen While Fueling War and Famine
What is happening in Yemen is not a natural disaster but a human-made catastrophe directly tied to U.S. policies.
![U.S. Wars Displaced at Least 37 Million People Since 9/11 Attacks](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/09/SEG1-DisplacedPeople-6-400x300.jpg)
US Wars Displaced at Least 37 Million People Since 9/11 Attacks
More than 800,000 have been killed since U.S. forces began fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen.
![Donald Trump](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/09/2020_0909-trump-400x300.jpg)
Trump Is Throwing Billions at the Pentagon But Wants Us to Believe He’s a Dove
Hounded by his own scandals, Trump admitted the profit motives behind U.S. militarism, but he’s still funding it.
![A Syrian youth holds a baby as he covers the baby's head with a fabric to protect him from sun during hot weather at a refugee camp where displaced Syrians shelter in Idlib, Syria, on September 1, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/09/2020_0908-syrian-refugees-400x300.jpg)
The US War on Terror Has Created as Many as 59 Million Refugees
The latest figure represents a dramatic increase from the Costs of War Project's 2019 report.