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** How the DC Metro is a tool for the military industrial complex ([link removed])
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By Brett Heinz on Oct 23, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image The first thing commuters saw when stepping into the Metro station beneath the Pentagon in late August was a poster for RTX: the world’s second largest ([link removed]) defense contractor, formerly known as Raytheon.
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** The US is making a very big deal over Chinese 'interceptions'. Why? ([link removed])
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By Mark Episkopos on Oct 23, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image A flurry of freshly released footage of apparent Chinese air interceptions further complicates the troubled U.S.-China relationship, casting an even larger pall on the upcoming summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San Francisco.
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** US ATACMs in Ukraine gamble with future civilians' lives ([link removed])
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By Titus Peachey on Oct 21, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image The Biden administration’s decision to send ATACM rockets loaded with cluster munitions to Ukraine ignores the many decades of human suffering caused by these indiscriminate weapons. It also disregards a strong international consensus that acknowledges that there is no responsible use of cluster munitions. This is not acceptable. We need a new policy.
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** US troops in Iraq, Syria fending off spate of armed attacks ([link removed])
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Oct 20, 2023 07:35 am
Featured Image The U.S. military has been quietly reacting to a spate of drone and rocket attacks against its troops in the Middle East this week, mindful that the region has become a tinderbox and the chances for the situation slipping into a wider war are growing every day.
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** Forget 'peace,' did Abraham Accords set stage for Israel-Gaza conflict? ([link removed])
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By Branko Marcetic on Oct 20, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image It’s easy to forget now, but the shocking and horrific violence that set off the current hostilities in the Middle East, where Hamas militants slaughtered and kidnapped innocent Israeli civilians, was predicted. Specifically, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Donald Trump warned ([link removed]) in October 2020 that terrorist violence was set to be imminently inflamed.
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** How China and Russia can help us avoid escalation in the Middle East ([link removed])
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By George Beebe,Anatol Lieven on Oct 19, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image The United States faces two preeminent threats flowing from Hamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s response. The first is the lethal threat to Israel that would be posed by a combination of assaults by Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran (especially if helped by Russia), and a renewed Intifada. The second is the danger that such a regional conflagration would drag the United States and Russia reluctantly into the fighting on opposing sides, with China giving aid to Russia.
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