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Post-withdrawal, no “over-the-horizon” strikes in Afghanistan

As the U.S. scrambled to get the last of its troops out of Afghanistan in late summer 2021, the Pentagon fielded endless questions about how it could prevent the country from becoming the terrorist training ground it had been before…
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Opinion: US Sanctions Are Brutal and Inhumane. And They Don’t Work

BY BRANKO MARCETIC Sanctions are a form of collective punishment. Their costs are overwhelmingly borne by innocent people rather than governments. And they are just another form of war, not an alternative to it. The US’s many sanctions…
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Thousands of Palestine rights supporters to gather to mark 75th Nakba anniversary

Thousands of Palestine supporters are expected to march in London and world-wide today to mark the 75th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing in the creation of Israel. The Nakba — or the catastrophe — took place on May 15 1948. Around…
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PTSD Iraq war veteran sentenced to 11 years for killing girlfriend

An Anaheim man who stabbed his girlfriend to death and then tried to persuade a police officer to shoot him was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison. Frank Moseley, a 34-year-old Iraq War veteran, was convicted earlier this year of…
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Iran Hails France’s Realistic Approach, Push for Strategic Independence

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian embraced France’s move to adopt a “realistic approach” to Iran, urging practical efforts to carry out the French president’s plans for the European country’s strategic independence. In…