“It bears an unsettling resemblance to the occupation of Iraq, where promises of liberation quickly gave way to years of insurgency.”
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“It bears an unsettling resemblance to the occupation of Iraq, where promises of liberation quickly gave way to years of insurgency.”
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By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
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President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.
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For a brief period, the pause in Israeli violence gave us a sense of normalcy. Then the airstrikes started again.
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Trump cast the Nigeria strikes as an assault on those “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”
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“They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. We hit them very hard.”
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The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.
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After Trump’s plan for Gaza went into effect, governments seemed eager to return to the status quo.
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These U.S. funders are exporting the same tactics that have for years helped AIPAC crush support for Palestinians to Europe.
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