Take Action Now The leaked documents provide internal U.S. military intelligence assessments of casualties on both sides. But different documents, and different copies of the documents circulating online, show conflicting numbers, so the propaganda war rages on despite the leak. By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, World BEYOND War The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the…

Take Action Now In the wake of the leaks and a drip-drip of info over the last year, one lawmaker is demanding clarity from the White House. by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Responsible Statecraft Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has flooded the docket in recent months with resolutions designed to get U.S. troops out of overseas missions he believes have not been approved by Congress,…

Take Action Now The document says just under 100 troops from the US, Britain, France, and Latvia are in Ukraine By Dave DeCamp, AntiWar.com A Pentagon document that has appeared on the internet as part of a trove of leaks shows the number of NATO special operations forces that are inside Ukraine, according to The Guardian. The Guardian report reads: “One slide suggested that a small…

Take Action Now Three key factors show why the administration needs to press the accelerator pedal on negotiations with Russia now. by George Beebe, Responsible Statecraft Three big factors are in motion that will shape prospects for the war in Ukraine. Each of these affects the others in potentially reinforcing ways. Together, they could soon create a dynamic that…

Take Action Now Western leaders ignore pleas for diplomacy, claiming a monopoly on moral leadership that they decisively lost on March 19, 2003, when the United States and the United Kingdom tore up the UN Charter and invaded Iraq. By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, InDepthNews March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the…

Take Action Now Are Americans supporting a policy of brutal attrition based on incomplete and skewed Western coverage of the war? by Branko Marcetic, Responsible Statecraft “Ukraine will win.” Some variation of this has become the unofficial mantra of U.S. policy toward the Ukraine war, asserted…

Take Action Now We are not at the 1-year anniversary of the war, as the Western governments and media claim. This is the 9-year anniversary of the war.  And that makes a big difference. by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Other News The war began with the violent overthrow of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014, a coup that was overtly and covertly backed by the United States…

Take Action Now The nuclear "war" in Ukraine may not be the one we expect. by Joshua Frank, Tom Dispatch In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the “unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Einstein’s forecast remains…

Take Action Now The top five US weapons firms outperformed major Wall Street indexes in the last year, mostly on the backs of American taxpayers. by Eli Clifton, Responsible Statecraft In January 2022, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes told investors that global instability presented a profit opportunity for his weapons firm. “e are seeing, I would say,…