Sen. Duckworth Votes To Retain 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)

My senator Tammy Duckworth joined 85 other senators to defeat repeal of the 2001 AUMF used to attack Afghanistan in the wake of the 911 attacks. Only 9 decent senators voted “No More” to senseless and endless war without Senate approval as required by the Constitution.

After conquering Afghanistan in weeks, presidents Bush, Obama, Trump, and now Biden have used it in perpetuity to wage senseless attacks, big and small, in at least 20 countries.

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Aaron Maté at UN: OPCW Cover-Up Denies Justice to Douma Victims

On Friday March 24, I spoke to the United Nations Security Council about the OPCW’s ongoing cover-up of its investigation into the alleged April 2018 chemical attack in Douma, Syria.

At the center of the scandal are two veteran OPCW scientists who deployed to Syria in April 2018 for the OPCW’s Douma probe. The pair have accused senior OPCW officials of manipulating the investigation to reach a conclusion that baselessly implicated the Syrian government in a chlorine gas attack. Their concerns are backed up by a trove of leaked documents, which I have extensively reported on.

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The Second Cold War

It began in August 1914, a war in Europe that was supposed to be over by Christmas of that year. But it exploded out of control, becoming the “Great War” or “The World War” or even “The War to End All Wars.” And when it finally ended on 11/11 in 1918, something like ten million troops were dead.

We know it as World War I or the First World War because we know what came after it: yet another calamitous world war, a sequel, one that was far worse than the original. And after that war finally ended in 1945, something like 75-80 million people were dead around the world, including 25 million in the Soviet Union, six million Jews in the Holocaust, and 250,000 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Hersh Strikes Back! CIA Planted Bogus Nord Stream Sabotage Story

From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

Legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is back with another blockbuster claim: The strange visit of the German chancellor to DC was to brief him on a CIA cover story meant to distract from Hersh’s claims that Biden green-lighted the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines! Also today: Why is Washington so uninterested in China’s plan for peace in Ukraine? Finally – 20 years later some Republicans still cannot let go of the use of force authorization.

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

Conflicts of Interest: Hawks Push for War with Russia After Russian Aircraft Caused American Drone to Crash

On COI #397, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover Kiev’s decision to continue sending soldiers to their death in the Bakhmut “meat grinder,” Senator Lindsey Graham’s calls for the US to begin shooting down Russian planes, Senators calling for Washington to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, Israel’s recent bombing in Syria, corruption at the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on expanding the Abraham Accords, potential Saudi investments in Iran as a result of the normalization deal brokered by China, and the possibility that the warming ties between the Saudis and the Iranians could boost efforts to end the war in Yemen.

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