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BREAKING: Our latest estimates reveal that deaths in post-9/11 war zones top 4.5 million. Read more by @MiriamABerger in the @WashingtonPost :

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The U.S. post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people. This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900, except World War II.

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The U.S. post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people. This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900, except for World War II.

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The post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people — roughly the population of Canada.

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Conservative estimates reveal that at least 38 million people fled their homes in post-9/11 war zones. The number could be as high as 60 million.

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38 million people have been displaced in the post-9/11 wars — roughly equivalent to the entire population of Afghanistan.

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New data reveals that more than 98 percent of Gaza campus protests were peaceful, yet over 3,500 were arrested across 81 campuses. Via @StephenSemler .

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BREAKING: 929,000 dead in post-9/11 wars that have come with a price tag of $8 trillion. Our latest assessments of the human and budgetary costs of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere are now available at . #20YearsOfWar

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BREAKING: Iraq War costs to top $2.89T by 2050. New estimates put the human death toll of the war at 580,000.

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38 million people have been displaced in the post-9/11 wars. This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900, except World War II.

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The U.S. post-9/11 wars have forcibly displaced at least 38 million people. This is roughly equivalent to the population of Canada.

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By the end of 2020, the post-9/11 wars will have cost over 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion. See our latest figures, released today at .

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Read the research:

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At least 38 million people have been displaced by the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya, and Syria. This is roughly the population of Canada.

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BREAKING: Billions of Pentagon dollars are shifting to Silicon Valley and Big Tech, according to our latest research. The top five contracts to major tech firms between 2019 and 2022 had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined.

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In 2020, Lockheed Martin's $75 billion in Pentagon contracts eclipsed the entire budget for the State Department's Agency for International Development ($44 billion.)

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The U.S. has spent over $8 trillion on the failed post-9/11 wars. That’s U.S. taxpayer money not spent on education, healthcare, and housing, for example — not to mention the other vast human, economic, social and political costs of war.

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The US military-industrial complex pollutes more than 167 countries and produces higher per capita emissions than all countries. New from @StephenSemler , citing Costs of War research:

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38 million is a very conservative estimate. The total displaced by the U.S. post-9/11 wars could be closer to 49–60 million, which would rival World War II displacement.

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To date, the U.S. war in Afghanistan has cost $2.26 trillion and over 241,000 lives. See our new research out today:

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At least 38 million people have been displaced by the post-9/11 wars. This is roughly the population of Morocco.

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The Iraq War was a massive redistribution of wealth to the rich and powerful, writes @StephenSemler in @Jacobin :

The Cataclysmic Iraq War in 6 Charts

The US invaded Iraq 20 years ago this spring. From killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to redistributing wealth to the rich and powerful, it was an unmitigated disaster. These charts show how.

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“The War on Terror has transferred $6 trillion-and-counting of public wealth to the defense industry, a machine that immiserates so many while ensuring that more pressing crises go unfunded and unaddressed.” By @attackerman :

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BREAKING: Our updated counterterrorism map reveals that the post-9/11 wars are far from over. We’ve tracked operations in 78 countries under the Biden administration between 2021-2023. [THREAD]

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Criminalization of protest has gone hand in hand with police militarization since 9/11. Images from the 2014 Ferguson protests prompted activists and politicians to compare the St. Louis suburb to occupied Gaza, Ukraine, or Iraq.

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Ending endless wars first requires acknowledging their scope. Our new research shows that U.S. post-9/11 wars are now taking place in more than 43% of the countries in the world.

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The so-called "War on Terror" is far from over: During the Biden administration, the U.S. counterterror apparatus has operated in at least 78 countries.

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The U.S. has spent $925 billion so far in INTEREST ALONE on borrowing to pay for the post-9/11 "credit card" wars. This sum could have been spent on far more productive and meaningful investments. See the calculation in a new paper by Heidi Peltier:

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A Pentagon report quietly released last month reveals U.S. military operations in Africa are “a nightmare,” reports @NickTurse in @RollingStone .

The U.S. Is Losing Yet Another ‘War on Terror’

The Pentagon last month quietly released a report revealing that — despite sending forces to at least 22 countries in Africa — the U.S. isn't reaching its objectives.

www.rollingstone.com

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Over $2 trillion.

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How much money did we spend in Afghanistan over the last 20 years that we were told we could never afford to spend at home?

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Who doesn’t suffer from war? Military contractors.

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The militarized response to pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses has deep roots in post-9/11 policy choices. [THREAD]

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A shocking new report from the DOD examined the causes of 2,530 active duty U.S. Army soldier deaths between 2014 and 2019. It found that 883 soldiers died of suicide, while 96 died in combat.

More American soldiers are dying by suicide than combat

More U.S. soldiers are dying of suicide than any other reason, according to an analysis shared recently by health officials with the Department of Defense.

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Breaking: The U.S. Senate has voted to repeal the Iraq War authorization, 20 years after it first passed. We estimate that the U.S. war in Iraq will cost upward of $2.89 trillion by 2050.

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Passed, 66-30: Passage of Cal. #25 , S.316, Repealing AUMF Against Iraq.

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Reminder: In terms of poverty, Afghanistan is worse off today than it was before the U.S. invasion in 2001.

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At least 38 million people were displaced by the post-9/11 wars. That is roughly the population of Hong Kong, Switzerland, Bolivia and Portugal combined.

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"Ignoring civilian casualties is a necessary act of erasure if you wish to avoid a frank assessment of not just the Iraq War, but also the legacy and future of U.S. foreign policy." A thread on 20 years after the Iraq invasion: [1/10]

Americans Don’t Care About the Iraqi Dead. They Don’t Even Care About Their Own.

The U.S. has a long and disturbing habit of ignoring the violence it commits overseas as well as at home.

theintercept.com

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More recently, activists protesting Atlanta's Cop City have been labeled as terrorists for engaging in activities protected by the First Amendment, usually with little pushback in the media.

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22 years after the attack on the World Trade Center, the reverberating impacts of war have killed at least 4.5 million people in post-9/11 war zones.

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When you think of a military contractor, do you think of Lockheed or Boeing? Think again: Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, are getting a growing piece of the defense spending pie. Read the research:

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BREAKING: Military contractors received between one-third to one-half of the $14 trillion in Pentagon spending since the start of the war in Afghanistan. [THREAD]

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Reminder that, dollar for dollar, military spending is the worst way to create jobs when compared to health care, clean energy, and education. More from our research here:

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"The defense appropriations bill is a jobs bill," says HAC-D Chair Betty McCollum.

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On Mon, we released a new study on civilian casualties due to U.S. and allied forces’ airstrikes in Afghanistan between 2017 - 2020. Yesterday, the U.S. military questioned our report, stating: 1/

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Read the report, "Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge":

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This increased police militarization has been coupled with widespread mass surveillance post-9/11 that has particularly impacted Muslims, immigrants, and protesters for racial and labor justice, and has normalized an erosion of privacy and freedom.

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Today on #WorldRefugeeDay , we're remembering refugees of the so-called "War on Terror" and all of those that were displaced from their homes as a result.

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The U.S. post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people. This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900, except World War II.

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A six month investigation by @60minutes found military contractors have been price gouging taxpayers. “The gouging that takes place is unconscionable.” [THREAD, 1/5]

Weapons contractors hitting Department of Defense with inflated prices for planes, submarines,...

A six-month 60 Minutes investigation found the nation's defense budget is plagued by a military supply chain rife with price gouging.

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Thirty-eight million people have been displaced by the post-9/11 wars. This is roughly the population of Canada.

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More than half of the Pentagon budget goes to military contractors. More than half of the Pentagon budget goes to military contractors. More than half of the Pentagon budget goes to military contractors.

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The Senate Armed Services Committee approved an increase in defense spending above inflation. This was what @JimInhofe & Republicans have sought. More in our PM newsletter

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NEW: A year after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, several key indicators reveal that the country is not better off than it was before the U.S. invasion in 2001. [THREAD, 1/8]

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Among service members who have fought in the U.S. post-9/11 wars, four times as many have died of suicide than in combat. A new study from @CostsOfWar documents the mental health crisis resulting from endless wars. Read more at

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. @stephensemler has crunched the numbers on Biden’s proposed budget, with the Pentagon — the world’s largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases — getting 18 times more than programs to tackle climate change.

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On October 7, 2001, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. 21 years later, we've lost more than 929,000 lives in the post-9/11 wars, at a cost of more than $8 trillion.

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New report from @natpriorities @IPS_DC reveals that 62 percent of the federal discretionary budget in FY 2023 goes to militarized programs: war and weapons, law enforcement and mass incarceration, and detention and deportation.

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The average tax payer contributed $5,109 towards militarism and its support systems in 2023. Via @IPS_DC and @natpriorities .

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BREAKING: Our latest research reveals that U.S. counterterrorism spending in Somalia dwarfs tax revenue raised by the Somali federal government. This spending has fueled more conflict, not less. [THREAD, 1/4]

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. @NickTurse : “Experts say Kissinger bears significant responsibility for attacks in Cambodia that killed as many as 150,000 civilians — six times more noncombatants than the United States has killed in airstrikes since 9/11.”

Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

Exclusive witness interviews and archival documents detail killings of hundreds of Cambodian civilians.

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Today, President Biden announced that military operations in Afghanistan will end on August 31. Our research estimates that between 2001 and 2021, the costs of U.S. war in Afghanistan have topped $2 trillion.

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New research release: Since the beginning of the post-9/11 wars, the U.S. military has emitted 1.2 BILLION metric tons of greenhouse gases. The Pentagon is the world's single largest consumer of oil and a top contributor to climate change.

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Today marks 21 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003. At least 315,000 people died from the direct impacts of war, including 210,038 civilians. Factoring in the indirect deaths from the war, the toll is much higher. [THREAD]

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The post 9-11 wars have killed 929,000 people; 387,072 of them were civilians. It didn’t have to be this way. Our latest research looks beyond the war paradigm to alternatives to the counterterrorism model.

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Since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, between 550,000-580,000 people have been killed in Iraq and Syria, the current locations of the United States’ Operation Inherent Resolve.

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In his recent Forbes piece, Costs of War contributor @WilliamHartung details the compensation packages for the top 5 weapons manufacturer CEOs. The numbers are staggering.

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During the Biden administration, the U.S. continued the so-called "War on Terror" with operations in 78 countries.

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Biden says in his oval office address, "I'm the first president this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world." (The Pentagon announced airstrikes in Yemen earlier today.)

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“China has about eight foreign military bases…this, compared to the 750 military bases outside the 50 states and Washington D.C., shows again how misdirected our priorities are.” Costs of War contributor @davidsvine on @democracynow :

The U.S. Has 750 Overseas Military Bases, and Continues to Build More to Encircle China

The United States struck a deal with the Philippines earlier this month to expand its military presence in its former colony to four additional bases, part of a years-long Pentagon buildup in the...

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The U.S. military is the world’s leading institutional emitter of greenhouse gases. Full stop. (1/4)

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Since Lockheed Martin is trending, a reminder that weapons makers wield huge lobbying heft to influence decisions over military spending:

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Costs of War estimates that the US has spent at least $6.4 trillion on post-9/11 conflicts. @RevDrBarber of the Poor People's Campaign and @PhyllisBennis want presidential candidates to take cuts in military spending more seriously. See their op-ed here:

Commentary: Hold Democrats to their word on war spending

The presidential candidates should deliver a cost-benefit analysis of the conflicts and weapons that have taken the lives of millions.

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Read the research:

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Breaking: Nearly one year after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, our latest report finds that $108 billion went to contractors working inside the country during the 20-year war. Over 1/3 of this total went to undisclosed recipients. [1/7]

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"It may not come as a surprise that the largest industrial military in the history of the world is also the single biggest polluter on the planet." Thanks @MazMHussain for a great piece of reporting.

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38 million is a very conservative estimate. The total displaced by the U.S. post-9/11 wars could be closer to 49–60 million. The UN estimates the total worldwide could now be as high as 84 million.

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NEW: This week marks 20 years since 9/11 suspects began arriving at Guantánamo Bay. Our latest report with @HRW looks at the broad costs of 20 years of torture. [THREAD, 1/5]

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Twenty years ago, the Bush administration assured the world that casualties would be few. But “these optimistic assumptions are confronted by a record of death, high and ongoing costs, and regional devastation,” writes Crawford. Read the full report:

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Progress on climate change in President Biden’s infrastructure bill is erased several times over by significantly higher military spending, writes @StephenSemler in @OutriderFdn , citing Costs of War.

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Since 9/11, the U.S. has been flooded with pro-war content, establishing and further normalizing a paradigm that treats war-making as the natural response to terror attacks. Our research outlines alternatives to the war paradigm:

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We may not be safer, but military contractors are no doubt richer.

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Military spending creates fewer jobs than the same amount of money would have, if invested in other sectors.

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Biden’s industrial policy is mostly about Pentagon spending (not infrastructure, climate, or microchips):

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Which of these military operations in 85 countries have been covered by the 2001 #AUMF ? New Costs of War analysis shows a lack of transparency over how the AUMF is used.

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In 2011, the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan estimated that waste, fraud and abuse had totaled between $31 billion and $60 billion.

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82 printers worth $412 apiece listed as being worth $1.1 million each in the Army’s databases. 17 refrigerators worth $24,170 each at $652,606 per unit. A simulator for the base fire department worth $499,950 was listed at $36.3 million.

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LIVE: The Costs of War Project presents updated estimates on the most comprehensive and widely-cited assessments of the financial and human costs of the past #20YearsOfWar .

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38 million people have been displaced by the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. This number is roughly equivalent to the entire population of Afghanistan.

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Additionally, Oxford professor and Costs of War co-director Neta C. Crawford estimates that 98 to 122 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents were emitted from U.S. military operations between 2003 and 2021 in the war zone.

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This is what challenging U.S. militarism looks like.

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The U.S. has normalized a paradigm that treats war-making as the natural response to terror attacks. Our research released this week outlines several alternatives to the militarized counterterrorism model. 1/2

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One cost of the post-9/11 wars: an entrenched and expanding U.S. surveillance infrastructure that grows ever more difficult to control.

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New DC experience: I’m standing outside a CVS in Dupont Circle, waiting for a ride. The surveillance machine above me just came alive to tell me not to loiter. Spent 5 years in mainland China and this is a new one for me.

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Factoring in Costs of War estimates of direct deaths of between 906,000 – 937,000 people in these war zones brings the total of estimated deaths to at least 4.5-4.6 million and counting. [5/11]

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Six senators are calling for a new “Truman Committee” in Congress to investigate war profiteering. Since 9/11, up to half of the Pentagon budget has gone to military contractors.

Senators want to dust off 'Truman Committee' to out war profiteers

Six US senators want to investigate the military industrial complex, but nothing will change as long as America seeks to dominate the world

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Since the United States ramped up its counterterrorism operations in Africa post-9/11, terrorism has spiked 75,000%, writes @NickTurse .

The Pentagon Proclaims Failure in its War on Terror in Africa

America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in...

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Reminder: The same $1 million public dollars spent to create six jobs in the military would create 21 jobs in public education — more than 3 times as many jobs.

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A new Pentagon analysis blames Russia for coups across West Africa and the Sahel, but fails to mention that at least 15 military officers who benefited from U.S. security assistance have been involved in 12 coups in the region since 9/11.

After Training African Coup Leaders, Pentagon Blames Russia for African Coups

The U.S. has trained 15 coup leaders in Africa in recent decades — and U.S. counterterrorism policies in the region have failed.

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The post-9/11 wars are far from over. The U.S. has conducted counterterrorism operations in 78 countries under the Biden administration between 2021-2023.

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BREAKING: Defense personnel made up about 72% of the federal workforce in FY 2022, according to our latest research outlining how U.S. military spending squeezes out other key priorities. [THREAD]

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After 9/11, the U.S. embarked on a forever war. We were founded to account for those war costs so that we can learn from recent history. Here’s a thread of some of the major costs we’ve tallied.

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At least four times as many active duty personnel and war veterans of post-9/11 conflicts have died of suicide than in combat. Our latest research on this mental health crisis featured by NBC.

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The number of civilians killed by U.S. and allied airstrikes in Afghanistan has increased by 330 percent during the Trump administration. More details in a our new report:

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An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting. Read the research.

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Almost two decades after his release, one Abu Ghraib prisoner talks to @Rsherlock about the torture and abuse he endured. "The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I'm only half a human now."

He says U.S. troops abused him in Iraq's Abu Ghraib and his life is still ruined

This Iraqi man says that 20 years after appearing in a notorious photo in U.S. detention in Abu Ghraib prison, his family lives in shame and poverty, never receiving U.S. compensation or apologies.

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