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		<title>Paper Tiger: The Failure of America’s Trillion-Dollar War Machine</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/mbenjamin/2026/08/12/paper-tiger-the-failure-of-americas-trillion-dollar-war-machine/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=paper-tiger-the-failure-of-americas-trillion-dollar-war-machine</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Medea Benjamin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Secret Marriage: How Arab States Betrayed Palestine While Denouncing Gaza</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Edain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Someone had to organize the catering; that&#8217;s the detail that got me. From the start of Israel&#8217;s assault on Gaza, Arab states have issued a steady stream of condemnation – labeling it genocide, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing – even as they&#8217;ve been secretly deepening their military ties with the very state carrying it out. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When &#8216;Victory&#8217; No Longer Justifies the Iran War</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/timothy_hopper/2026/08/12/when-victory-no-longer-justifies-the-iran-war/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-victory-no-longer-justifies-the-iran-war</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Hopper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CNN reported this weekend that Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has privately urged senior Trump administration officials to look for an “off-ramp” from the war with Iran. According to three sources familiar with the discussions, Caine has warned that further escalation could backfire and that airpower alone is unlikely to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Bomb in Monaco and a Torture Room Near Kyiv</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/thomas_karat/2026/08/11/the-bomb-in-monaco-and-a-torture-room-near-kyiv/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-bomb-in-monaco-and-a-torture-room-near-kyiv</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas S. Karat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from her feet, the shallow hole in woods sixty kilometers west of Kyiv. Anastasiia Berezovska had been shot in the back of the head, then shot again as she [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The New Apologists for American Empire</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/edward_hunt/2026/08/11/the-new-apologists-for-american-empire/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-new-apologists-for-american-empire</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Hunt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration marked the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of U.S. independence with a series of statements in support of American empire. Despite the fact that Trump campaigned against endless war and the White House issued a National Security Strategy that rejected “global domination,” the Trump administration celebrated the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary by glorifying empire as one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Long Road to War</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/david_kasper/2026/08/11/the-long-road-to-war/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-long-road-to-war</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Kasper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The war between the United States and Iran is rooted in events stretching back more than seventy years. As the major media continues to ignore the history, it is important to understand this essential backstory. If you&#8217;re wondering why the United States and Iran have been bitter antagonists for more than a half century, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Silver Lining: The Donald’s Impending Defeat in Iran May Finally Bring the Empire Home</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2026/08/10/the-silver-lining-the-donalds-impending-defeat-in-iran-may-finally-bring-the-empire-home/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-silver-lining-the-donalds-impending-defeat-in-iran-may-finally-bring-the-empire-home</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Stockman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is damn obvious that Washington has lost Donald Trump’s idiotic war on Iran. After all, it is now five months since the opening salvos of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, which was advertised to last only 3-4 weeks. Instead, the conflict has settled into a grinding, inconclusive stalemate at best, and, more importantly, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump&#8217;s Iran War Raises a Midterm Question: Who Decides When America Goes to War?</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/peter_rodgers/2026/08/10/trumps-iran-war-raises-a-midterm-question-who-decides-when-america-goes-to-war/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=trumps-iran-war-raises-a-midterm-question-who-decides-when-america-goes-to-war</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Rodgers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On July 23, President Donald Trump threatened to carry out his “biggest attack yet” on Iran after nearly two weeks of renewed U.S. airstrikes. That same day, the House voted 214–208 to direct the president to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran, while a parallel Senate effort failed 47–49. The contrast sharpened a question [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>JD Vance’s Iran War Dilemma</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/nolan_denaro/2026/08/10/jd-vances-iran-war-dilemma/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jd-vances-iran-war-dilemma</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nolan Denaro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vice President JD Vance has struggled to justify his shifting rhetoric on Iran. Once thought of as the standard-bearer of a right-wing, non-interventionist school of foreign policy thought, Vance has been forced to repeatedly contradict himself in an effort to sell this war to the American public. Once the bombs started dropping, JD Vance folded [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remembering LCDR James Ennes of the USS&#160;Liberty (1933-2026)</title>
		<link>https://original.antiwar.com/michelle_kinnucan/2026/08/09/remembering-lcdr-james-ennes-of-the-uss-liberty-1933-2026/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=remembering-lcdr-james-ennes-of-the-uss-liberty-1933-2026</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle J. Kinnucan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Friday, July 31, 2026, Lieutenant Commander James M. Ennes, Jr., US Navy, ret., slipped his cable and unfurled his sails. With the Great Pilot at the helm, he set a course to his final home port. LCDR Ennes, then Lieutenant Ennes, was serving aboard the USS Liberty (AGTR-5) when, on June 8, 1967, Israeli [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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