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As U.S.-Funded Wars Rage in Israel and Ukraine, Pentagon Watchdog Warns of Military Failures

Daniel Boguslaw

While Congress weighs sending more aid to both countries, a new inspector general report details oversight issues and waste within the U.S. military.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., arrives for votes as Congress returns to work in crisis mode with only a few days to go before a government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Sen. Paul has said he will not support funding for Ukraine in a continuing resolution to fund the government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rand Paul Wants to End Undeclared War in Syria

“The United States cannot fix Syria,” an Obama administration official said. “I simply fail to understand why we have U.S. troops there.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Ranking Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill Nov. 29, 2023. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

Politics With Ryan Grim

AOC Was Offered $100,000 by AIPAC to “Start the Conversation.” She Turned Them Down.

After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 2018 primary victory, her campaign got a call from a representative of the pro-Israel lobby offering to raise big money and start a relationship with the group.

Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing

Amy Westervelt, Matthew Green

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, about Medicare for All. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Deconstructed

“The Squad,” Part 1: The Rise and (First) Fall of Bernie

WASHINGTON, US - AUGUST 2: A view of the US Senate office as the US Capitol Police (USCP) clear office buildings after a report of an active shooter in Washington, US on August 2, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Shock Poll Shows Independent Nebraska Union Leader Beating Republican Senator

Israel’s War on Gaza

Two Months That Shook the World: The First Phase of the Gaza War

Podcasts

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, about Medicare for All. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Deconstructed

“The Squad,” Part 1: The Rise and (First) Fall of Bernie

Israel’s War on Gaza

Two Months That Shook the World: The First Phase of the Gaza War

Voices

JERUSALEM - SEPTEMBER 1: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES) U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the King David Hotel September 1, 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

Voices

On Top of Everything Else, Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East

GAZA CITY, GAZA - NOVEMBER 28: Gazans displaced due to Israeli attacks move towards the southern Gaza Strip through roads determined by the Israeli army as 'safe passage corridor' in Gaza City, Gaza on November 28, 2023. (Photo by Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

All the Times Israel Has Rejected Peace With Palestinians

Politics

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 02: Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) speaks during a press conference at the entrance of the migrant relief center at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on February 02, 2023 in New York City. Dan Goldman (D-NY) spoke during a press conference after he and various elected officials took a tour of the temporary migrant relief center for adult men at the terminal. The center has been taking in migrants from the Watson Hotel after they were evicted from the premises in order to be relocated to the center. On Wednesday night, NYPD and DSNY cleared a group of migrants who refused relocatiing to the center citing inhumane conditions. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Some Politicians Calling for a “Ceasefire” Are Not Actually Calling for a Ceasefire

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 13: The U.S. Capitol Building is secured in response to a call for a "Day of Rage" on October 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Security has increased across the U.S. in response to last weekend's Hamas attacks on Israel. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Bipartisan Plan to Trade Immigrant Rights for Ukraine Money Is Sinking Fast

Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 17: Pro-Palestinian activists hold a rally at Union Station on November 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. The group of activists attempted to shutdown Union Station as they called for a cease fire in the Israel-Hamas war. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

With Ceasefire Calls Growing, Israeli Military Launches Closed-Door “PR Blitz” on Capitol Hill

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 21: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears before Judge Scott McAfee for a hearing in the 2020 Georgia election interference case at the Fulton County Courthouse on November 21, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Judge McAfee heard arguments as to whether co-defendant Harrison Floyd should be sent to jail for social media posts and comments that potentially targeted witnesses in the trial. McAfee declined to revoke Floyd's bond. Floyd was charged along with former US President Donald Trump and 17 others in an indictment that accuses them of illegally conspiring to subvert the will of Georgia voters in the 2020 presidential election. (Photo by Dennis Byron-Pool/Getty Images)

Georgia Supreme Court Blocks GOP Attack on Trump Prosecutor — For Now

Justice

NYPD Accused of Fabricating Domestic Violence Survivor’s Murder Confession

Police Officers from the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, NY investigate the scene where police shot and killed a suspect who fired at police on May 13, 2022. Plain clothes officers were investigating a separate case when they encountered a group in a dispute and an armed suspect fired at police officers, police returned fire striking the gunman fives times, the gunman died at a nearby hospital. (Photo by Steve Sanchez/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

NYPD Paid Out $30 Million in Misconduct Cases Before Litigation in First Nine Months of 2023

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 01: Police take security measures as students of American University attend a campus protest against ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza in Washington, D.C., United States on November 01, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

American University Called on the FBI to Investigate Defaced Posters

NEW HAVEN, CT - NOVEMBER 18: Yale Bulldogs students protests for Palestine during the game as the Harvard Crimson take on the Yale Bulldogs on November 18, 2023 at the Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field in New Haven, CT (Photo by Williams Paul/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Harvard Law Review Editors Vote to Kill Article About Genocide in Gaza

Natasha Lennard

National Security

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 05: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaks during a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) conference November 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. The commission held a conference on "Strength Through Innovation: The Future of A.I. and U.S. National Security." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Henry Kissinger, Top U.S. Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Donald Trump's lawyers are expecting the former president to be indicted as soon as Thursday over attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the matter. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

India Accidentally Hired a DEA Agent to Kill Sikh American Activist, Federal Prosecutors Say

Murtaza Hussain

Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) program divests 21 vehicles to BG Sherzad with the Ministry of Peshmerga valued at $5.3 million at Erbil Air Base, Iraq on August 11, 2021. The CTEF program supports Iraqi Counter Terrorism Headquarters with the equipment to enhance their fight against hostile forces. (U.S. Army photo by SFC Ernest Henderson)

Missiles and Drones Among Weapons Stolen From U.S. in Iraq and Syria

US President Joe Biden during a meeting to accelerate efforts to counter the flow of fentanyl into the United States in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. The Biden administration's decision to remove a Chinese organization from a sanctions list as part of a deal to combat the fentanyl crisis marks an unusual concession to Beijing's complaints over US trade restrictions. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Joe Biden Moves to Lift Nearly Every Restriction on Israel’s Access to U.S. Weapons Stockpile

Ken Klippenstein

World

NBC NEWS -- "Sadat's Visit to Israel: Henry Kissinger & Edwin Newman Discussion" -- Aired 1977 -- Pictured: (l-r) NBC News' Edwin Newman, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -- Photo by: NBC Newswire

Members of Israel’s Ruling Likud Party Once Planned to Assassinate Henry Kissinger

Daniel Boguslaw

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 14: Chairman U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives for a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on unions on November 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. Union leader testified before the Committee at a hearing titled, "Standing Up Against Corporate Greed: How Unions are Improving the Lives of Working Families." (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Bernie Sanders May Push Vote on Conditioning Aid to Israel in Coming Weeks

Daniel Boguslaw

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 7: A kidnapped poster for hostages kidnapped on October 7 by Hamas in Israel is torn and covered with an anti_Israel sticker, November 7, 2023, in Greenwich Village, New York City, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

How to Read the Israeli “Kidnapped” Posters

AL BIREH, WEST BANK - NOVEMBER 26: 39 Palestinians, brought by International Committee of the Red Cross vehicle, reunite with their relatives as they are released from Israeli Ofer prison as a part of Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas prisoner swap amid Humanitarian pause, according to Palestine Liberation Organization's prisoners in Al Bireh city of Ramallah, West Bank on November 26, 2023. Israeli authorities released 39 Palestinians, including 6 females, 33 minors as part of second batch of prisoner swap according to official Palestinian news agency WAFA. (Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

Israel’s Insidious Narrative About Palestinian Prisoners

Technology

Facebook Approved an Israeli Ad Calling for Assassination of Pro-Palestine Activist

A masked witness leaves the military court in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, during the trial against six soldiers accused of crimes against humanity and violating orders, on September 15, 2023. Six soldiers, including two officers of the elite Republican Guard, faced a military tribunal over the killing of nearly 50 people in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in Goma. Congolese soldiers had on August 30, 2023 stopped a religious sect from holding a demonstration against United Nations peacekeepers in the city. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)

Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People in Congo

Robert Flummerfelt, Nick Turse

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Julio Corro, right, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. The Trump administration intends to require that American citizens boarding international flights submit to face scans, something Congress has not explicitly approved and privacy advocates consider an ill-advised step toward a surveillance state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

LexisNexis Sold Powerful Spy Tools to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Israel’s War on Gaza

Google Activists Circulated Internal Petition on Israel Ties. Only the Muslim Got a Call from HR.

Environment

The Norlite hazardous waste-burning plant in Cohoes, New York, seen on October 1st, 2023. (Photo: Rebecca Redelmeier)

New Yorkers Voted to Put Environmental Rights in Their Constitution — but the Attorney General Is Fighting Back

Rebecca Redelmeier

Seal Beach, CA - December 13: Plastic bottles and other trash is piled up along the bank of the San Gabriel River just a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean in Seal Beach on Tuesday morning, December 13, 2022. Recent heavy rains have sent trash flowing down the river from many miles inland. (Photo by Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Unproven “Advanced Recycling” Facilities Have Received Millions in Public Subsidies

Schuyler Mitchell

NEW HAVEN, CT - OCTOBER 08: Yale Professor William Nordhaus speaks during a press conference after winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences at Yale University on October 8, 2018 in New Haven, Connecticut. Professor Nordhaus' research has been focused on the economics of climate change, economic growth and natural resources. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Voices

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

Christopher Ketcham

BONN, GERMANY - JUNE 8: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President-Designate of the UNFCCC COP28 climate conference and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, speaks at a side event at the UNFCCC SB58 Bonn Climate Change Conference on June 8, 2023 in Bonn, Germany. The conference, which lays the groundwork for the adoption of decisions at the upcoming COP28 climate conference in Dubai in December, will run until June 15. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

Inside the Campaign That Put an Oil Boss in Charge of a Climate Summit

Ben Stockton, Amy Westervelt