Author: Eric Garris

Dear Antiwar.com Reader,

Did you watch any of the Congressional session on Saturday? I’ve been watching these things regularly since I was a kid, and I have literally never seen anything like it.

US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and also approved a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from Russia and pave the way for a ban on TikTok.

They considered all four war bills in a single debate, with only three House members allowed to speak in opposition. They allowed voting on only seven amendments for all four bills combined. Usually the voting is “limited” to 15 minutes, but that is not enforced and often goes for 30-40 minutes. But this time, the voting time limit on each bill was for FIVE MINUTES, strictly enforced. For the seven amendments, the time limit for each was for TWO MINUTES!

The Taiwan bill is for $8 billion, but it allows the President to divert those funds to Ukraine. Part of the Ukraine money is technically a loan, but Ukraine’s government is allowed to pay that back with stolen Russian assets.

The entire thing lasted only a little over three hours. After the Ukraine vote, the House broke into chants praising Ukraine and many of them waved Ukraine flags. It was surreal.

We need to stop this madness. Please help us with a donation to assist us in our effort to inform Americans about the wars and threats to our liberty. All contributions are tax-deductible in the US.

Thank you,

Eric Garris
Director, Antiwar.com

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We are excited to announce that Dave DeCamp has won a Pierre Sprey Award for his work covering the news for Antiwar.com. Dave won a runner-up prize along with Gareth Porter, a renowned investigative journalist and long-time contributor to Antiwar.com.

Max Blumenthal, founder of The Grayzone, has won the top prize for his work exposing truths about the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that the mainstream media has ignored.

Named after a well-known critic of the US war machine, the Pierre Sprey Award for Defense Reporting and Analysis is funded by Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen to celebrate “clear-thinking and courageous” analysis that exposes the military-industrial complex.

The panel that chose the winners is made up of these members:

Winslow Wheeler worked on national security issues for both Republican and Democratic US Senators; directed multiple significant studies at GAO and authored or edited books, anthologies, commentaries, and articles while at the Center for Defense Information and the Project On Government Oversight.

Tom Christie is a defense analyst who worked a the Pentagon for more than three decades. At the time of his retirement, he was the most senior civil servant in the Department of Defense.

Franklin Spinney is a former Pentagon analyst. In the early 1980s, he authored the “Spinney Report,” detailing the Pentagon’s reckless and costly pursuit of complex weapons systems. In 2003, he received the “Good Government Award” from the Project on Government Oversight.

Andrew Cockburn is the Washington, D.C. editor of Harper’s Magazine. He has authored several books on American defense policy, including Spoils of War, Power, Profit, and the American War Machine.

Click here for more information on the award winners