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Obama Normalized Drone Warfare. Trump Is Escalating It.
Trump’s drone war should remind us how dangerous it is when a president claims the legal authority to kill in secret.
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Cities in the Crosshairs Are Pushing Back Against Nuclear Weapons
Over 40 U.S. cities have put forward a resolution against nuclear war that they will push Congress to adopt.
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A New War Will Not Produce Even Short-Term Economic Benefits
Economics is never a justification for war.
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Mike Pompeo Contradicts Trump’s Claim That Suleimani Planned Attack on Embassies
Pompeo admitted the administration actually did not know when or where an attack would take place.
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As We Work to Prevent Iran War, It’s Time to End All Our Wars
We must halt war funding and slash the giant Pentagon budget.
![An MQ-9 Reaper drone of the sort used in the assassination of an Iranian military leader sits on the ramp at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, December 6, 2015.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/01/2020_0109-reaper-drone-400x300.jpg)
The Threat of War Inflates Stock Holdings of Military Contractor CEOs
As long as our privatized war economy can reap unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran will persist.
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Iran Sanctions Are Economic Warfare, and Trump Just Vowed to Increase Them
Sanctions have already caused a severe recession and shortages of life-saving medicine.
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Congress Must Forcibly Limit Trump’s Power to Attack Iran
We need an immediate shift to restorative diplomacy with Iran.
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More Than 180 Events Planned Across US to Protest Trump’s March to War With Iran
We have a short window of time to stop a war with Iran. We need a massive protest.
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Bush Official: I Watched the March to War in 2003 and It’s Happening Again
Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army colonel, discusses more.