Humanitarian volunteers are doing perilous work to remove land mines that Russian soldiers left behind in 2022.
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This was created by The War Horse, a nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to its newsletter here. Joy Metzler had expected to still be in uniform, working as a junior officer at her Air Force engineering job. Instead, she found herself protesting outside the United Nations, weakened from participating in a 40-day […]
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Last week, while touring “Alligator Alcatraz,” the new immigrant detention center in Florida, President Donald Trump said he approved of a plan to use National Guard officers as immigration judges in the state. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had been pushing the plan for months as a way to speed up deportations. “He didn’t even have […]
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Conscientious objector applications surge under Trump as military members fear becoming “the saber that he’s rattling.”
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Calls to GI Hotlines Rise as Service Members Consider Defying Trump’s Orders Read Post »
In March, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, glanced at his phone and couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He’d been inadvertently included in a secret chat on Signal among the Trump administration’s national security team about imminent military strikes in Yemen. The Signal chat leaks—which inevitably became known as “Signalgate”—called into question President Donald Trump’s […]
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Jeffrey Goldberg on Signalgate, Pete Hegseth, and the Risk of WWIII Read Post »
At nearly 8 p.m ET Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered shocking news that would quickly rouse global angst about the threat of nuclear war. He did so on social media. “A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,” he thumbed out on Truth Social about three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites that […]
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Trump Once Said Congress Should “Always” Approve Military Strikes Read Post »
Donald Trump often does not tell the truth. The intelligence community produces classified reports that are unavailable for outside evaluation. Thus, the public cannot trust what Trump and his crew say about the intelligence. This is a fundamental problem. We cannot accept as fact what Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi […]
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In Trump’s Wartime Reality Show, Truth Is a Casualty Read Post »
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to its newsletter. The email came last fall while James Harter was on vacation with his husband in Quebec City, Canada. He was checking his computer in their RV when he read the no-nonsense subject […]
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Late last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Donald Trump’s deployment of federal troops to Los Angeles could continue while a challenge by California Gov. Gavin Newsom moved through the courts. But by deploying more than 4,000 National Guard members and at least 700 Marines to the heart of LA, Trump is […]
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The Marines Did Not Sign Up to Police LA Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the British-backed shah of Iran met in the Paris suburbs of Neauphle-le-Château to plan for the final stages of the revolution, a revolution that after 46 momentous and often brutal years may now […]
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This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Army Sgt. Ayssac Correa had just started his day at the 103rd Quartermaster Company outside of Houston on the morning of March 13 when he got a phone call from his sister-in-law. […]
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Many Republicans quietly but noticeably skipped Trump’s military-slash-birthday parade on Saturday. According to a survey Politico did earlier this week of 50 congressional Republicans, only seven said they planned to stay in Washington, DC, for the weekend to attend the festivities. One Republican—Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)—was more direct about his opposition to the event. “I […]
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