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DC-based writer, editor. Sr.advisor @quincyinst , editorial director @rstatecraft , co-host #TriptheBeltwayFantastic podcast. Views own.

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Joined February 2011
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Anti-Lockheed protester carried off stage just now at #Politico America’s Defense Strategy conference in DC
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NEW @randpaul begins trip down rabbit hole of finding out how many troops we have operating in how many countries and why. Maybe he'll be able to touch base w/ @nickturse down there.
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Affluent Americans who are much less likely to be doing the fighting, want the fighting (as long as someone else's kids are doing it)
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Does anyone remember the US/NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the insistence of Kosovo's independence in 1999? Not conveniently. My colleague @globalsarang recalls:
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am i alone in thinking a DHS ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ sounds completely Orwellian and the timing of putting someone who worked as an advisor to the Ukrainian govt to head it sounds super odd ?
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Class tone deafness everywhere
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Live @SenRandPaul @amconmag foreign policy conference: "You come to my Republican caucus and you'll hear the beating of drums. For war. Everything is about war with China."
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New polling shows nearly 70% of Americans want US to pursue talks to end the Ukraine war, a real disconnect with Washington policy right now. @connor_echols :
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@joshrogin @HillaryClinton @giwps Senator Hillary Clinton makes argument on floor for invading Iraq and taking out Saddam Hussein, 10.3.2007
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@HenryJFoy @FT So Brussels turns out to be everything Orban said it was, a bully.
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Neoconservative Victoria Nuland, who was responsible for Obama's disastrous democracy promotion efforts in Ukraine and Russia, has just been tapped as Biden's state department undersecretary for political affairs.
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Surprise, surprise! Tik-Tok ban proposed in Congress w/21 bipartisan sponsors, "would grant the executive branch unprecedented new national security powers over commerce in information and communication technologies, and by extension, speech."
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@dmehro And you wonder why people have no trust in the government. this isn't a left or right thing, folks.
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Honestly, this is what these guys said before the Ukraine counteroffensive. So why are we still taking our cues from them as they subtly shift their tone? Read:
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The White House quietly announces it will be creating a new command for the military assisting & training mission for #Ukraine . How addicted is this country to endless wars? @KyleAnzalone_ @DecampDave @scotthortonshow @RonPaulInstitut
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My latest on the continuing absurdity of Beltway elites trying to win over Americans by patronizing and insulting them into submission.
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NEW @JohnKiriakou on why we need to wake up and thank @xychelsea Manning for not taking the easy way out-- she chose jail over cooperating with federal grand jury against @wikileaks and is now paying the price
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Tell me again why we are thinking about extending a security umbrella to Saudi Arabia, when the Kingdom, according to @HRW , is literally killing women and child migrants at their border? @connor_echols :
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In order to protect shipping lines the Biden admin bombed a country tonight that has been under bombardment and economic blockade for the better part of 9 years. Not everyone on the Hill is buying the justifications:
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This is soooo 2003.
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I'm getting increasingly agitated that these US politicians are absolutely dedicated to sending Ukrainian men to die in a meat grinder while using this sanctimonious tone about no American 'boots on the ground'
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Surprise! @Nickturse has found that Gen. Barmou, the chief of Niger’s Special Ops Forces and one of the leaders of the coup in Niger, was trained by the U.S. military. @theintercept :
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Big Sister of US diplomacy, Victoria 'F--k the EU' Nuland, gets promoted again, this time one rung lower than Blinken. NEW @connor_echols :
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@FOX10Phoenix @LucasFoxNews And the Army tried to cover up the true nature of his killing and exploited him to hype up support for the war. RIP.
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Biden just asked for another $33 BILLION for Ukraine assistance ($20B for military). That, on top of the nearly $4 billion already pledged. According to my colleague @BenFreemanDC that's more than the total defense budgets for all but 13 countries in the world. Let that sink in.
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Surprise! Silly smear list that puts orgs incl Code Pink, Quincy, my mag RS, CATO, TAC and and wow, a lot of my friends, on a Ukraine enemies list, turns out to have State Dept. connections. Great wrap by @masonls1066 @amconmag
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This is why Israel's war in Gaza will be the final nail in the coffin of American superiority -- moral and otherwise -- in the world. If we cannot do anything about this we got nothing.
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NEW @CostsOfWar report: US 9/11 wars led to 4.5 million deaths, one million of them directly related to combat. Nice to forget, huh? MORE @connor_echols
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The US military is quietly digging in for the long haul in Ukraine war. As George Beebe tells me here, "You don’t put a 3-star in charge just to keep track of weapons flows in Ukraine." MORE:
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@JRubinBlogger Same. My son was born in 2002, yet I spent the last 20 years trying to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. You did the opposite.
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For anyone who doubted that Biden's gambit to tie anti-US proxy war effort to fascism, here's another data point, in @atlantic today: "today’s anti-war caucus is objectively pro-fascist." Read more as Kirchick smears QI, Mearshiemer, Chas Freeman, et al
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I'm old enough to remember when Elliot Cohen was slavishly cheerleading the surge in Iraq and COIN in Afghanistan. We know how that all turned out. I don't blame him for writing this, it's his metier, sadly, but the Atlantic editors should be ashamed.
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In those stifling post-9/11 days of COIN, neocons & cloying conformity, Justin Raimondo made me a braver and happier writer. My humble thoughts on his passing: @Antiwarcom @jwcglaser @LucyStag @ScottMcConnell9 @philipgiraldi @JimBovard @DanielLMcAdams
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@ggreenwald that sound you hear is a rip in the time-space continuum.
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Nightmare: What it looks like when you “liberate” a country that hasn’t asked for it and unleash a violent chain of events creating the conditions for an even worse tyranny than before. My latest on #Iraq : @Antiwarcom @GarethPorter @Mauerback @Liberty5380
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NEW from me: as if on cue, AIPAC funded pols, many of whom sat on the sidelines as tens of thousands of Gazans perished and starved, rush to battle stations to declare US war on Iran for 'disproportionate' highly choreographed, limited attack on Israel.
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All: this is my last week at @amconmag . It’s been a tremendous run and will miss my colleagues and comrades but I move to @QuincyInst @RStatecraft on 9/14 and so excited to continue the battle against the Blob and for Restraint on a new front!
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Grab a coffee this morning and please read this exhaustive argument against Michele Flournoy for Secretary of Defense by Pierre Sprey (who spent decades in the DoD) and Winslow Wheeler (decades in Congress budget staff) for @POGOBlog :
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the World Kitchen workers killed by airstrikes were delivering food from the coast where the US military plans to build its own aid landing and staging area. let that sink in.
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NEW: Yesterday's attack on foreign aid workers in Gaza does not bode well for the Pentagon's plan to construct a makeshift causeway to get aid into the strip, writes @KelleyBVlahos
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Is is moral/ethical to advocate for prolonging a war what will likely end in not a clear victory but the destruction of a country (not your own) including decimation of a generation of young men (not your own)? Must read George Beebe this morning:
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@DecampDave interesting to see there is a anti-war/restraint/constitutional vote on both sides of the aisle, though.
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Me on @mtaibbi #twitterfiles 4 @amconmag today: the Russian “malign influence” story got the public’s buy-in for a new Cold War by normalizing idea that Russians not only helped elect Trump, but were trying “to destroy US democracy” & are still doing so.
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Honoring the war dead by saying 'no more' to Washington treating our men and women like “toy soldiers to be moved around on some global chessboard.” #MemorialDay
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NEW: The Pentagon won't say who will be getting aid from US built pier/causeway to the beach but there's a private contractor called Fog Bow -- all recently retired special forces, Marines — that appears ready to go. My latest:
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Pierre Sprey Award for Defense Reporting and Analysis goes to @MaxBlumenthal this year with honorary nods to @GarethPorter & @DecampDave @Antiwarcom What a great night inside the belly of the beast DC! also pictured @YoBenCohen @andrewmcockburn @dan_grazier
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NEW! explosive declassified docs show how much Clinton team knew Russia would recoil from NATO expansion and we're already feeling 'snookered' thirty years ago. h/t @NSArchive
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While the elite media acts like #SyHersh has cooties they conveniently & completely ignore one of the biggest mysteries of the year. So if the US didn't blow up the pipeline -- who did? My latest: @scotthortonshow @BMarchetich @DecampDave @KatrinaNation
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Great to see these founders/prize winners at 1st Annual Pierre Sprey Awards for Investigative Journalism in DC last night! From left @samhusseini (award) @andrewmcockburn @YoBenCohen @aaronjmate (award) Winslow Wheeler, Ben Abelow (award) & @raghavanWaPo (award)
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New from me: GOP Reps Reschenthaler and Max Miller say the more than 20,000 Americans fighting for the IDF in Israel right now should get same legal and employment protections as our US National Guard and Reservists.
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RIP: When Christopher Hitchens was calling him a "political and moral cretin" for opposing the Iraq War, Rep. Walter Jones was writing 8k letters to soldiers' survivors. He told me it was what "my lord would want me to do." My '09 @Antiwarcom interview:
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After a year, #NordStream attack probe leading into uncomfortable territory for the West, which is why you don't hear about it so much. New from me:
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There are mighty men and then there are heroes. Thank you #DanielEllsberg for giving Americans a reason to be proud of our traditions of free speech and free press, and inspiring generations to use both to pursue truth, and to challenge power.
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Gulf states banding together to punish economically devastated Lebanon because its information minister made an incredible breach in etiquette --calling Saudi & UAE the "aggressors" in Yemen (true) and the war "absurd" (understatement)
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Outrageous @theintercept @kenklippenstein @saralsirota report about US military losing biometric devices to Taliban, putting coalition partners' iris scans and more at risk recalls what we did to our Sunni allies in Iraq. From me:
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. @basedMikeLee : "(Biden's) pattern of engaging in offensive airstrikes without authorization and calling such actions defensive is a warped understanding of the interactions between the legislative and executive branch powers in war"
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Excellent @GarethPorter Pentagon’s (failed) pursuit of Vietnam as a potential military partner against China and the extraordinary self-deception surrounding the entire endeavor.
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Meanwhile: "I Was in Gaza. I Had to Saw a Child's Bone Without Proper Anesthetic"
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Secretary of State Blinken joins a Kyiv band for Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World”
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New @Andrewmcockburn on how US weapons superiority was tested and failed in Ukraine, ripping the mask off the smoke defense contractors have been blowing for decades.
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Can we finally acknowledge that the idea the US is fighting to crush Russia "to the last Ukrainian" is ghoulish and immoral? Must read @BMarchetich on all the members of congress, pundit class, etc who say war is 'bargain' for the US Call them out.
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NEW: The military still can't provide a clear answer as to who is providing security on the Gaza beach for the US military pier project, which is supposedly opening for business in the next 24hrs. @kenklippenstein @mpdimino @DanielLDavis1
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@Timcast Free State Project is MAGA? and Republican? Wasn't aware of that.
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‘This isn’t training, this is combat’
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HISTORIC DEPLOYMENT: CBS News has been given exclusive access to the Army’s 101st Airborne Division as they are deployed to Europe for the first time since the last World War. They are now the closest U.S. forces to the fight in Ukraine.
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@mtracey Not odd if you consider a 'social credit' system has been slowly creeping into American consumer consciousness via Silicon Valley and the private sector for some time now:
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The major media was intoxicated by ratings, authority, and access in those early post-9/11 years. It was a tough road for anyone who didn't buy into it. This is my thanks to those who did: @Antiwarcom @mtaibbi @GarethPorter @scotthortonshow @amconmag
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New from me: Bill Kristol's new "Republicans for Ukraine" campaign insists there is only one "right" way to support Ukraine. Whoever thinks differently may not even be a real conservative, or a patriotic American.
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John Bolton says failed assassination plot against him provides “a real window into what that government in Tehran is like.” yeah, virtuous governments like Washington and Tel Aviv wouldn't know anything about that.
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this carries such a stink of midterm election desperation that it takes my breath away.
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There is a pro-Putin axis developing in America. And it’s no accident. ⁦ @djrothkopf ⁩ details Putin’s influence in the MAGA GOP. It also runs through the Tech Bros, libertarians and into the peace movements. Some are consciously allying, some duped.
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My tribute to @Consortiumnews Robert Parry (1949-2018), a man of sterling journalistic integrity who spent a career (rightly) holding the conformist press in contempt. @GarethPorter @markperrydc @MaxBlumenthal
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Susan Glasser thinks that people who know this is bullshit don’t bother reading the New Yorker and many don’t but just a reminder here about what her ilk actually think about anyone who doesn’t toe the neoconservative line on the right.
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Just a reminder of how openly nasty and aggressive the warmongering neocon right was in the run up to Iraq-- I just found this in the clutter of a closet.
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Lol. "Unrestricted speech threatens democracy"
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@connor_echols Reminder: the acting deputy secretary of state has said as recently as February that there will be no peace in Ukraine until Putin is gone. A regime change policy, which he seems to have advocated for years (and helped to engineer in Ukraine in'14), is a dead ender.
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Dangerous game being played by Israel if it is indeed behind the assassination of Razi Mousavi (top Iranian commander) in Damascus neighborhood yesterday. NEW @tparsi
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C'mon people, whatever your politics, does this sound acceptable to you?
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32. By mid-Sept, 2020, Chan & Roth had set up an encrypted messaging network so employees from FBI & Twitter could communicate. They also agree to create a “virtual war room” for “all the [Internet] industry plus FBI and ODNI” [Office of the Director of National Intelligence].
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Thanks to @DecampDave I found out about the latest US airstrike in #Somalia . They're barely trying to justify these things anymore and the mainstream media has seemingly no desire to really cover it. From me: @nickturse @Antiwarcom @scotthortonshow
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This is what all those years of war, privatizing war, and letting people like Erik Prince and the rest of his oily privateering cohort define the rules gets you: American vets serving as assassins for UAE in Yemen. Incredible reporting by @AramRoston
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US taxpayers just handed over $1.2 billion to Israel to finish building a giant laser weapon called 'Iron Beam' What could go wrong? NEW @stavroulapabst
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NEW: Psyched to have @sethharpesq writing for us today, warning against the media triumphalism over recent Ukraine successes and where this war may really be going. @aaronjmate @FabiusMaximus01 @KyleAnzalone_ @Antiwarcom @scotthortonshow @nickturse
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It's amazing to me how Petraeus can talk about how disappointing and incompetent the Russian military was in the initial invasion of Ukraine knowing how the US was unable to directly overcome the Iraq insurgency for at least 4 years after 2003 invasion.
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NEW @tparsi on why ripping up the Iran nuclear deal was one of the biggest strategic screw-ups in American history. Mostly because Iran now has enough enriched fissile material to build several bombs if they wanted.
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