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The perverse diplomatic charade of Saudi Arabia starting a fire then getting credit for providing fire blankets.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and American Enterprise Institute are aggressively campaigning for military escalation and a tightening of sanctions.

Even by his standards, Trump is a terrible wartime president

The presumptive Democratic nominee is failing to call for sanctions to be lifted, even if just for the duration of the pandemic.

Any U.S. response to the global pandemic must end the war.

Withdrawing even some of the U.S. troops, planes, drones and bombers from Afghanistan will reduce the killing.

In 2015, I asked Sen. Warren to oppose the war in Yemen. Here's what she said.

How imperial arrogance and veiled racism damned Obama’s signature achievement.

As we spiral toward a confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, it’s worth reflecting on the failures to rein in U.S. aggression along the way.

We can't let Trump's belligerence undermine the climate fight of our lives.

Democratic leaders are feigning outrage, but they've supported the precursors to war.

All other 2020 candidates have remained silent on how they will vote.

Our failure to reckon with Obama-era atrocities—and why it matters.

Like millions of others, the Kurds are victims of disastrous U.S. interventions in the region.

From trade policy to Hong Kong, progressives must oppose xenophobia and nationalism while advancing labor and human rights.

Power backed the disastrous U.S. intervention in Yemen. But you wouldn't know that from reading her much-lauded memoir.

As Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates clash over their goals, the people of Yemen are paying the price.

Junior Democrats who voted against an anti-war amendment have ties to the Saudi and UAE lobbies.

A scrappy counter-recruitment movement is trying to starve the military of labor.

Here's where 2020 Democratic hopefuls stand.

The president is defying Congress, which wants to shut off a flow of U.S. weapons that have been used to kill thousands of Yemenis.

Peace activists are urging lawmakers to step up their efforts to end the war.

Sanctions are a violent tool of U.S. control. And now this tool is in Trump's hands.

The Trump administration is pursuing catastrophe to protect U.S. dominance.

Stuart Eizenstat has worked as a powerful political advisor, as well as a corporate lobbyist for the oil and arms industries.

By publishing information provided by whistleblower Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks shined light on U.S. war crimes. But exposing empire comes at a cost.

New reports show an escalation in civilian casualties from U.S. operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia — and a pattern of U.S. denial about the scale of the problem.

The case for an immediate withdrawal from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.

As the political tide in the United States finally turns against the war, we must not let its U.S. proponents whitewash their wrongdoing.

A call for diplomacy and deescalation, not economic and military confrontation.

A little-noticed amendment allows for continued U.S. intelligence sharing with Saudi Arabia, undermining the push to halt all U.S. participation in the war.

Trump wants to expand U.S. dominance and empire—and he has little resistance in Congress.

Against the feminist-washing of U.S. militarism.

After years of protest against the devastating onslaught, the Senate finally took steps to halt the war in Yemen.

As the Senate takes an unprecedented step towards ending the Yemen War, here are the voices of the Yemenis bearing its brunt.

While declining to meet with the Yemeni Alliance Committee, Pelosi has been palling around with the Israeli-American Council and the Saudi ambassador.

Now that Saudi Arabia has become a P.R. liability, Samantha Power and Ben Rhodes have quietly condemned the war in Yemen. But when they had the power to stop it, they were complicit.

How the United States is helping Oman militarize its border with Yemen.

Ignoring Congress, Trump says he doesn't have to obey limited protections included in the defense bill.

In an interview, Rapone explains how he went from a proud teenage Army private to an anti-war activist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Lawmakers' efforts to limit U.S. support for the Yemen War have failed to stop the bloody Saudi-led assault on the port city of Hodeida.

The people of Afghanistan are paying a horrible price for the protracted U.S. occupation.

The court of public opinion isn't enough. Israel's leaders should face charges in The Hague.

The U.S. tries to distance itself from Saudi war crimes in Yemen—but it's always been America's war too.

Presidents have been declaring war by executive fiat. A new bill to replace the AUMF would rubber stamp it.

A conversation with peace activist Christine Ahn.

Ninety-two percent of Senate Democrats and Independents failed to substantively dissent against Trump's April 13 airstrikes.

For three years, the United States has backed a brutal Saudi-led war on Yemen, and ordinary people are paying the price.

The billionaire philanthropist is rolling out the red carpet for Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who is overseeing the mass starvation and death of children in Yemen.

Senators voted today to table a measure that would withdraw U.S. support for the Saudi-led onslaught.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are declining to take a formal position against the U.S.-backed Saudi war on Yemen.

To seriously address the scourge of gun violence, we must oppose U.S. militarism around the globe. Many leading Democrats haven’t gotten the message.

Our modern-day definitions of displaced people emerged during the Cold War as a product of anti-communism.

Trump’s first year set a record for U.S. special ops.

Instead of disaster preparedness and storm relief, resources are being funneled into violent police trainings and arms exchanges.

Washington’s voice of conscience since 9/11.

The problem with the media’s individualistic response to collective tragedy.

We can’t have an out-of-control president with a finger on the button.

A discussion on the future of peace organizing.

The only way forward on North Korea is peace. But first we need dialogue.