Memorial Day brings out a lot of scripted lines, but we want to talk about the part that gets avoided: what American wars actually cost, who pays, and how often the public is left holding the bill while elites chase ideology, influence, and profit. We start by...
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) says it killed two “narco-terrorists” with an airstrike in the Eastern Pacific. “Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” SOUTHCOM posted on X...
Axios reports speaking with American officials who claimed that Iranian and US negotiators had reached a framework for an agreement to end the war, and that the signing of the document was awaiting President Donald Trump’s final approval. The officials explained...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he gave orders to the IDF to increase control of Gaza from 60% to 70% of the Palestinian enclave. He went on to suggest that Israel could seize the entire Palestinian territory. “We are currently squeezing Hamas,” the...
Trump says he wants “few people killed,” then talks like bombing Iran is a weekly calendar event. That contradiction is where we start, because the public narrative around the Iran war keeps snapping from all-out threats to last-minute “negotiations” as deadlines...
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report showing that it will take the US two to three years to replace the weapons used during the Iran war. In the first six weeks of the US war against Iran, the Pentagon used significant...
Officials say that the Board of Peace fund, intended to provide aid to the Palestinian people and rebuild Gaza, is empty. In October, Hamas and Israel signed a peace agreement brokered by President Donald Trump. The agreement established a Board of Peace chaired...
President Donald Trump said that the current offer for ending the war against Iran is insufficient. He threatened to resume strikes on Iran if Tehran did not propose a satisfactory offer. “Iran is very much intent, they want very much to make a deal,” Trump said...
A professor makes a $500 campaign donation and suddenly gets cast as the “most important man in America” pulling congressional strings. That absurd story is the perfect doorway into what we really care about here: how narratives get manufactured, why propaganda...
A semi-official Iranian outlet reported that Tehran is demanding that Washington agree to release $24 billion in frozen funds as part of an agreement to end the war. According to an official speaking with Tasnim, Iran is requesting that half of the funds, $12...
US Central Command said reports that the Navy is escorting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported speaking with US military officials who said the Navy quietly resumed the operation to escort ships through the...
A top US military official told their European counterparts that Washington plans to provide NATO with fewer warplanes, drones, and refueling tankers. The German outlet Der Spiegel reports that Department of War official Alexander Velez-Green briefed high-ranking...
