Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was grilled about his pledge for the military to commit war crimes by showing “no quarter” to the U.S.’s enemies in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (Massachusetts) brought up a statement Hegseth made in a press conference on March 13, just two weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. “You said, ‘We will give them no…
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took Kid Rock on a joyride in a U.S. Army Apache helicopter on Monday in order to help him get footage to promote his tour — days after the conservative musician begged fans to buy more tickets for the “Freedom 250”-themed tour, with hundreds of tickets still available for shows just a few days away. In a post on social media, Hegseth said that he took Kid…
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In their initial retaliatory strikes of the war, Iranian forces caused far more extensive damage to U.S. military assets than Trump administration officials have admitted to in public and private, new reporting finds as Germany’s chancellor says the U.S. is being “humiliated” by Iran. In these strikes, Iran hit over 100 targets across 11 U.S. bases in the Middle East, striking “warehouses…
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The murder spree being conducted by the U.S. government under the direction of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth climbed to an estimated 185 people on Sunday after the Pentagon announced another bombing of a boat it claims was trafficking illegal narcotics. “On April 26, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear…
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. military should win the Nobel Peace Prize “every single year” because it wages war “the right way” — just seconds after bragging about his reshaping of the military to ensure that officers can carry out “maximum violence” under his chain of command. In a briefing on the Iran war on Friday, a TMZ employee asked Hegseth if he would consider…
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The Trump administration’s operations in Latin America over the past seven months have cost nearly $5 billion, finds a new analysis — enough to fund Medicaid for half a million Americans for a year. Thus far, the combination of the military costs for the deadly raid of Venezuela and abduction of then-President Nicolás Maduro as well as the U.S.’s boat strike and surveillance campaign in the…
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