The Republican Party’s staggering losses in the November midterm elections have prompted speculation about the future of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, which is overwhelmingly unpopular with voters. Democratic leaders have portrayed President Donald Trump’s military offensive as an unconstitutional fiasco and an economic disaster driving inflation. But their choreographed outrage…
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President Donald Trump ambiguously suggested during a political rally on Monday that Iran could “take out” San Diego or Los Angeles. The president’s remarks seemed to be an attempt to justify his ongoing war on Iran, which is deeply unpopular among American voters. Addressing a crowd of supporters in Nebraska, Trump claimed that the economic impacts of the war were worth it to prevent…
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Eighty-one years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nuclear landscape is dire. Experts say arms control is on “life support,” if not dead, while diplomacy and negotiations are overrun by conflict and confrontation. In February, the expiration of the New START Treaty marked the end of more than five decades of U.S.-Russian (Soviet) arms-control treaties.
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As details emerge regarding the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran, President Donald Trump appears to be pushing the idea that the war was justified because it prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. However, the MOU doesn’t contain any enforcement mechanisms for preventing Iran from obtaining such weapons. It only requires the country’s leaders to…
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Perhaps some things should never be spoken — for, when they are, they leave us aghast, in a state of horror. Think here of the ghostly figure in Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” During the height of the war on Iran, Donald Trump threatened: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Those are words that elicit something frightening, terrifying. Let’s be frank. The words…
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Seated behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office in early May, Donald Trump delivered a disturbing lecture to a group of children huddled around him — most of them not yet even teenagers. They had been brought to the White House for what was supposed to be a celebratory event marking the reinstatement of the Presidential Fitness Test, dressed in brightly colored T-shirts bearing the government…
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