The News Never Stops: A message from Dave DeCamp

My life has changed pretty dramatically since I started working full-time as the News Editor of Antiwar.com back in 2020. I started out in a studio apartment in Brooklyn and now live in an old farmhouse in rural Virginia (far from Washington DC).

The way I look at the world has also changed quite a bit since my wife Alison and I had our two boys, Dave and Tim (literally the coolest kids ever). The future has never mattered more to me. I have also rediscovered my Catholic faith, which fits well with being a professional opponent of war.

One thing that has remained consistent is the news. It doesn’t stop. For obvious reasons, my job has become much more difficult and time-consuming over these past few years amid the raging proxy war in Ukraine and now the US-backed Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.

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US Alleges Russian Forces Used Prohibited Chemical Weapons on Ukrainian Battlefield

Last updated on May 2nd, 2024 at 09:12 am

The U.S. State Department has accused the Russian military of using chemical weapons in Ukraine, violating the international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

The State Department notified Congress on Wednesday that it had determined Russian forces have employed chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. The congressional notification came in accordance with the U.S. Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW).

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Gaza’s Famine and Biden’s ‘Extreme Pressure’

Jonathan Katz discusses what Biden told him in a recent interview and compares it with the administration’s record:

But his avoidance of specifics spoke to the other side of that coin: the fact that there has been zero evidence of any serious consequences in the seven months of this ungodly war. So far the U.S. response to countless war crimes in Gaza has been to briefly threaten symbolic sanctions against individual Israeli units and officials, then reverse them immediately. And to allow a weakened ceasefire resolution to pass the U.N. Security Council, then pretend like the resolution doesn’t count.

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Back Door War: SecDef Admits US Troops in Gaza May See Combat

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

In a fascinating exchange US Rep. Matt Gaetz probed US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the role of the estimated 1,000 US troops involved in building a floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza. Austin insisted that they were not “boots on the ground” although he admitted they would be armed and would respond to incoming fire. Injecting US troops into a warzone requires a Congressional vote, Gaetz warned Austin.

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

Birding in Gaza: Celebrating Links Across Species

Originally appeared at TomDispatch.

He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small grey crest for a hat. With his shiny black eyes and stubby black beak, he’s quite the looker. Like the chihuahua of the bird world, the tufted titmouse has no idea he’s tiny. He swaggers right up to the feeder, shouldering bigger birds out of the way.

A few weeks ago, I wouldn’t have known a tufted titmouse from a downy woodpecker. (We have those, too, along with red-bellied woodpeckers, who really should have been named for their bright orange mohawks). This spring I decided to get to know my feathered neighbors with whom I’m sharing an island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. So I turned up last Saturday for a Birding 101 class, where I learned, among other things, how to make binoculars work effectively while still wearing glasses.

At Birding 101, I met around 15 birders (and proto-birders like me) whose ages skewed towards my (ancient!) end of the scale. Not all were old, however, or white; we were a motley bunch. Among us was a man my age with such acute and educated hearing that he (like many birders) identified species by call as we walked. I asked him if, when he hears a bird he knows, he also sees it in his mind.

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