by Sharon Zhang | Jul 22, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, Marco Rubio, News, Pentagon, Pete Hegseth
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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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 20, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Department of Defense, Iran, News, Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, War Crimes
In its first year under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon dramatically slashed its teams responsible for taking efforts to reduce civilian harm in military conflicts, new reporting finds — an undertaking that continued until as little as months before the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Minab, Iran, in one of the worst single incidents of a civilian massacre committed by the U.S.
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 15, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, Minab, News, Pete Hegseth, War Crimes
As calls for transparency grow, President Donald Trump has waved away the idea of accepting U.S. responsibility for the massacre of schoolchildren in Minab, Iran, on the first day of the U.S. and Israel’s war — and has suggested, heinously, that photo evidence of U.S. munitions used on the school “are AI.” Asked about a letter from Democrats this week calling for the release of the U.S.
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by Chris Walker | Jul 15, 2026 | Department of Defense, masculinity, Military, News, Pete Hegseth, Testosterone, United States military
On Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new policy aimed at increasing testosterone levels for servicemembers — a move that has been discouraged by health experts. In a social media post announcing the policy, Hegseth stated that the most “decisive tactical advantage” the U.S. military has “will always be the individual warfighter.” “We have a sacred duty to maintain…
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by Etan Mabourakh | Jul 10, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, Minab, NDAA, Op-Ed, Pete Hegseth, War Crimes
New details are emerging about the U.S. attack on the Minab school that killed 168 people — and yet the Trump administration continues to stonewall and is refusing to release findings, even as CNN reports that U.S. military officials knew within days what happened. Here’s what we know: On the morning of February 28, 2026, the first day of “Operation Epic Fury,” the United States bombed the…
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by Julia Conley | Jun 19, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Caribbean, Drug War, Latin America, News, Pete Hegseth, Trump Administration
As US senators pushed the Department of Defense to release unedited footage of the boat bombings the Trump administration has carried out in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September, US Southern Command on Thursday announced that it had killed three more people in the operation that some international law experts have said amounts to mass murder and an extrajudicial killing spree.
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