President Donald Trump dismissed a question on whether he’d hold members of his administration accountable for a strike on an Iranian elementary school in the early days of the war, continuing to deny that the U.S. was involved in the massacre despite evidence suggesting otherwise. A reporter asked Trump on Wednesday whether he would “hold anyone in your administration accountable for the…
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The Trump administration’s “asinine attempts to silence objective journalism just hit a new low,” said one press freedom advocate late Monday after the Pentagon announced that the US Department of Defense would mark its press office as a classified area, banning journalists from the space where they’ve previously talked openly with DOD officials. Reporters on the military are currently…
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The U.S. is using more of its resources to defend Israel than Israel is itself, according to U.S. officials who spoke to The Washington Post on Thursday. The officials disclosed that the U.S. military has depleted much of its missile-defense inventory after using far more of the weaponry to defend Israel throughout the war on Iran than Israel has used itself. The U.S.
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Iran’s missile arsenal is still largely intact, according to U.S. and other intelligence agencies, contradicting claims made by the Trump administration. Iran has regained access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, as well as to the majority of its mobile launchers and underground facilities, according to a report by The New York Times. These missile sites can be used…
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On Tuesday, May 12, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified in back-to-back hearings before the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Throughout the hearings, Hegseth defended Trump’s defense budget request of $1.5 trillion. Hegseth was joined by General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Jules Hurst III, the Pentagon’s acting…
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The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, billed by the Trump administration as a “military operation,” has now evolved into a sustained confrontation with no clear exit strategy, no authorization from Congress, and no public transparency. The United States finds itself at a precarious juncture in a conflict of its own choosing. While high-level representatives from both countries met last month in Pakistan…
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