(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday ruled out the idea of ceding any territory to Russia, a key term of a US-drafted peace proposal to end the war.
“Russia is insisting that we give up territories, but we don’t want to cede anything,” Zelensky told reporters after meeting...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Two US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets were spotted by flight trackers on Tuesday flying deep inside the Gulf of Venezuela, a body of water surrounded by Venezuelan territory on three sides, marking the latest US provocation amid threats of a potential regime change war aimed at ousting...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Congress has released its 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and is preparing to pass the sweeping spending bill, which will give President Trump a total military budget of over $1 trillion.
Earlier this year, a supplemental for an additional $156 billion was included in the so-called “Big...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli operatives are conducting widespread surveillance of US troops and allies at the new US base in southern Israel meant to monitor Gaza, The Guardian reported on Monday.
The report said that the scale of spying was so widespread that the US commander of the base, Lt. Gen....
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a “difficult” conversation with US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, on the issue of territory during a two-hour call on a potential Ukraine peace deal, Axios reported on Saturday.
The call came at the end of three days of...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Catholic Archbishop for the US Military Services has spoken out against the US bombing campaign against alleged drug boats in Latin America and said it would be “illegal and immoral” to order the bombing of survivors on a boat that poses no threat.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio made...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a US government watchdog established in 2008 to oversee US reconstruction spending in Afghanistan, has issued a scathing final report on the US’s failed nation-building effort.
SIGAR will be closed down on January 31, 2026, and was required to...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of US Southern Command who abruptly announced he was stepping down in October, was pushed out by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The report said that Hegseth and Holsey were at odds during the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A company with long standing ties to Israeli intelligence now manages cyber security systems across more than seventy federal agencies in the United States, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
This finding comes from a detailed report on Axonius, a firm...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military blew up another boat in the waters of Latin America on Wednesday, an attack that comes amid growing congressional scrutiny of the bombing campaign.
US Southern Command said in a statement on X that its forces conducted a “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had won its war, but was in a never-ending conflict.
The Israeli leader told The New York Times’ Dealbook Summit, “We won this war. But it’s never ending. It’s like if you have cancer and you take it...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has confirmed that he held a phone call with President Trump amid a major US military buildup in the Caribbean and the threats of an attack on his country.
Maduro said the call, which occurred last month, was “cordial” and that he decided...