Trump Is Already Outpacing His First-Term Record Number of Airstrikes on Somalia

In a recent video released by the State Department, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared, “The inspiration of America to the rest of the world has been extraordinary.” The video, which commemorates the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, hails the legacy of the framers while a voiceover praises the generations who “dedicated themselves to building a more peaceful and…
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This Tehran Music School Took Ages to Build Up. Airstrikes Turned It to Rubble.

Tehran’s sky was still half-lit around 5:00 am on March 23 and the Iranian capital’s characteristic traffic jam hadn’t formed yet. Hamidreza Afarideh hadn’t left for work, but he heard blaring alarms from a remote anti-theft system on his phone that suggested something ominous may have happened at his workplace. As the musician steered toward the often-crowded Pirouzi district in eastern…
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From Southeast Asia to Middle East, US Bombs Are a Failed Foreign Policy Choice

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran opened not with a declaration, not with diplomacy exhausted, but with airstrikes. Among the first confirmed casualties were more than a hundred schoolchildren killed in a strike on their elementary school in southern Iran. Within a month, 850 U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Iran. President Donald Trump has delivered on his promise to bomb Iran…
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Thousands of Iranians Who Live on Kharg Island Face Possibility of US Invasion

Over the past month of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, Donald’s Trump mission has creeped from vowing that he’s “not putting troops anywhere” to backing himself into an escalation that makes the chance of ground invasion far more likely. As many as 17,000 American troops could be gathering in preparation for an operation to land on, and potentially even seize, any number of Iranian islands in…
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