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US Military Morale In The Middle East In The Overflowing Toilet

August 13, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Rotten food, overflowing toilets into bunking areas, no room in the incoming missile shelters, confiscated cellphones that are the notification devices for incoming missiles, infrequent mail, social media closed down, were some of the issues that military families identified at the national conference of Veterans For Peace. Spouses and parents of Air Force, Army, Marine and Navy told of plummeting morale, lack of basic supplies and attacks on U.S. military bases that are not reported in the U.S. media. The frustration of the military families at the VFP conference echoed the descriptions of life on U.S. military bases in the Middle East.

Paper Tiger: The Failure Of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine

August 13, 2026 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies​, Scheer Post. , , ,
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s 2025 military budget at only $7.5 billion. So how is Iran holding its own against the multi-trillion-dollar US war machine? A critical difference between the US war on Iran and previous US and allied bombing campaigns against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Gaza, is that the US and Israel have failed to destroy Iran’s air defense system and cannot fly warplanes over Iran without risking the loss of planes and pilots to enemy fire. Iran has wisely built its critical defense infrastructure underground, with arms factories, weapons stockpiles and launch sites sheltered safely beneath its impenetrable mountainous terrain.

USS Lincoln Carrier Crew’s Relatives Rage At Pentagon Bosses

August 12, 2026 John Catalinotto, Workers World. , , , ,
Military families, unhappy over how their sailor relatives on the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier have been mistreated by the Pentagon during their last nine-months combat mission, showed their anger at an Aug. 7 virtual town hall meeting with top U.S. Navy officers in San Diego. According to the report on MS NOW, some 200 parents, spouses and other relatives of 5,000 sailors and Marines on the Lincoln gave hell to Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao in San Diego “over difficult conditions aboard the USS Lincoln as its combat mission against Iran stretches onward with no clear date to return home.”

Mutiny Aboard US Carrier Abraham Lincoln Off Iranian Coast

August 12, 2026 Bruce Gagnon, Space for Peace. , , , , ,
Recent reports indicate a serious mutiny situation aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Seven U.S. Navy personnel have possibly been killed and several others injured in a violent clash among the crew, highlighting growing unrest and morale issues during an extended deployment. Worried families vented their anxieties about loved ones onboard the Lincoln at an emotional town hall meeting with navy leaders in San Diego last Thursday, Stars and Stripes reported. One spouse among the 200 or so family members said that her husband had texted her that day saying “he hopes he doesn’t wake up tomorrow”.

US Military Testing Sowing Chaos In Civilian Skies

August 10, 2026 Stavroula Pabst, Responsible Statecraft. , , ,
Almost every day, the military tests various emerging technologies across the U.S., including drone and counter-drone systems and GPS jamming. To a certain extent, this testing is inevitable. But, as experts told RS, the government has in many cases not ensured that the proper safeguards and necessary interagency coordination are in place to make sure such tests can be conducted safely. These testing issues strain civilian airspaces — increasingly disrupting aircraft and even sometimes leading to accidents. In particular, the military’s domestic testing and use of drone- and counter-drone technologies have precipitated several recent high-profile mishaps.

SOUTHCOM Announces New Military Campaign

August 8, 2026 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. , , , ,
The United States is once again escalating its presence in Latin America. On August 4, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) published a video announcing that it is transitioning from Joint Task Force-Southern Spear to Joint Task Force-Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM). Beyond the jargon and aggrandizement typical of U.S. military announcements, what this essentially means is that the United States is going from violating Latin American sovereignty in the waters of the Caribbean to violating sovereignty by carrying out operations inland.

Chris Hedges Report: Why The US Military Is ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’

July 30, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. , , ,
In their most recent documentary, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy”, Abby Martin and Mike Prysner examine the US military as not only the world’s biggest consumer of fossil fuels, but also the world’s biggest perpetrator of ecological devastation and a driver of both increasing carbon emissions and militarization in other countries. Chris Hedges speaks about the new film and why it is an important tool in the global struggle against imperialism with Abby Martin in this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. On top of the US military’s direct carbon emissions from powering warships, bombers, tanks, the vast web of foreign bases and more...

Protestors Want Pine Gap Closed

July 28, 2026 Binoy Kampmark, Consortium News. , , , ,
It remains a prickly reminder that Australia is an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking in imperial and fast diminishing splendour. Pine Gap, known more technically as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), is a largely U.S.-operated effort in Alice Springs, Central Australia. As the late scholar of strategic studies Desmond Ball pithily remarked in 1988, it is “an espionage operation. Euphemisms should not be allowed to obscure this essential point.” It grew out of a desire on the part of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) in 1965 to establish a remote Australian-sited ground control station intended for signals intelligence satellites.

The Effects Of The 1.5 Trillion Dollar Bloated War Budget On Hawaii

July 27, 2026 U.S. Army Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
The U.S. “defense” budget is out of control, unsustainable and absent of accountability. Now, the U.S. House of Representatives has agreed to a 50% increase in the defense budget to $1.5 trillion. The Senate must approve it and will consider the massive DOD budget when they return from the August summer recess. The Pentagon cannot tell the American taxpayer where past mega-funding went, as it has unable to pass a financial audit as required by law -- something every other department of the federal government is able to do, nor will it be able to handle a budget twice as big as the previous year’s.

The 2027 NDAA Advances Predation, Not Security

July 24, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. , , ,
Soon, the United States Senate will decide whether to advance the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, legislation that will shape the country's military, intelligence, and technological architecture. Public attention has focused largely on defense spending and geopolitical competition, yet the bill also deepens the institutional integration of artificial intelligence, surveillance technologies, and strategic cooperation with Israel in ways that deserve far greater public scrutiny. The most important question before the Senate is therefore not how these capabilities will be used by today's government, but what future governments, operating under different political and moral assumptions, will inherit once this infrastructure has been built.

An Appeal To The Consciences Of Those Who Are Bombing Iran

July 23, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
Nineteen years ago in February 2007 during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (to the tune of Beachboys song Barbara Ann)” recitation by Senator John McCain, I wrote an article entitled “An Appeal to Conscience to Those Who WOULD Bomb Iran.”  Now almost two decades and four presidential administrations later (Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump), the article is virtually the same, except that U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy pilots have now actually dropped bunker busting, ‘smart” bombs on Iran’s nuclear program facilities

House Passes Bill That Will Integrate The US And Israeli Militaries

July 23, 2026 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , ,
On July 22, the House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), H.R. 8800, for fiscal year 2027, which includes a provision expanding defense cooperation and integration between the United States and Israel. The vote was 216-212, largely along party lines, but six Democrats joined the Republican majority: Reps. Henry Cuellar D-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), Jared Golden (D-ME), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Adam Gray (D-CA), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA). The bill included a provision titled Section 219 which would “expand and enhance intelligence sharing” with Israel, establish joint ventures for the co-production of weapons, promote joint military exercises, and integrate Israeli weapons into existing U.S. systems and programs.

Tyrin Johnson Is Dead; Memphis Is Occupied

July 21, 2026 Earle J. Fisher, Truthout. , , , ,
I met Tyrin “Ty” Johnson neither through a police report, nor through a press conference, nor through the carefully crafted statements of elected officials or the endless speculation that too often follows the death of a young Black man, but rather through the people who loved him most: his mother, his grandparents, his great-grandmother, his aunts, and the grief that filled the room where they gathered only days after his death. I would find out later that I’ve known one of his cousins for over 25 years. They did not describe a headline.

Active Duty Air Force Major Calls For President Trump’s Impeachment

July 20, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Speaking or acting publicly and challenging policies of the U.S. government takes a lot of courage from an average citizen of the United States and doubly so for those who are employed by the U.S. government, and particularly those in the U.S. military. Under the Biden administration we had seven examples of courageous acts of conscience by members of the U.S. military in refusing to be a part of the Israeli-U.S. genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. During the Trump administration, many who have privately dissented from the endless illegal policies have been fired, in particular those in the U.S. military, no matter what rank, and especially if had any contact with DOD’s mandated Diversity, Equality and Inclusiveness (DEI) programs.

Largest Gathering Of Service Members For Anti-War Protest Since Vietnam

July 17, 2026 Mike Prysner, Counter Punch. , , , , ,
On July 4, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, more than 500 veterans and military families gathered in the birthplace of the nation to reject what they called the Trump administration’s fascist vision for the country’s future (including domestic troop deployments and endless war). The coalition—About Face, 50501 Vets, Veterans For Peace, Common Defense, Military Families Speak Out, Fayetteville Resistance Coalition, and CCW—marched under the banner Freedom Over Fascism. Among them in the streets of Philadelphia were at least a dozen currently-serving members of the U.S. military, part of the “Service Members’ Anti-War Contingent” organized by the Center on Conscience and War.
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