The Trump administration quietly revised the U.S. troop death count in the Iran war from 18 to 14 this week, seemingly removing the deaths of the four troops killed this past weekend in Iranian strikes even as the administration faces accusations of cover-ups with regard to American casualties of the war. The New York Times reported that, on Wednesday, the Pentagon website that logs troop…
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On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the “greatest threat” that the U.S. faces is not the historic affordability crisis, institutionalized corruption, or rapid erosion of basic rights, but rather the prospect that the Pentagon — and the military contractors who profit from its contracts — may not get a half trillion-dollar raise next year. During his testimony to the Senate…
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) issued a stark warning this week about a congressional measure that would merge the U.S. and Israel’s military technology industrial complexes, saying that it represents an “existential threat” to U.S. democracy. The provision — called the “U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” or Section 219 — is included in the 2027 National…
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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said this week that his government has “no interest” in rejoining the U.S. in the war on Iran that Israel helped start, saying that the “correct” situation is the current one — in which Israel sits back and watches while the U.S. burns billions of taxpayer dollars committing potential war crimes against Israel’s biggest adversary. “When it comes to…
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The House Rules Committee has once again blocked the possibility of a full House vote on removing the unprecedented integration of the U.S. and Israeli military’s technological and industrial complexes from the $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget for 2027. On Monday, the committee published a list of amendments it deems “in order” to receive consideration on the House floor when the National…
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U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that further strikes on Iran aren’t likely to achieve any progress with regard to the U.S.’s war aims, a new report finds as the Trump administration approaches Congress to ask for $87 billion more to fund the war. The Washington Post reported on Monday that intelligence analysts have “concluded that Tehran and Washington are, for now…
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