You'll See Iran in a Couple of Weeks
The Pentagon declared the Iran war over on July 7. The White House is now scheduling the next one for the week after the midterms, and the households footing the $1,100 fuel bill get to vote in betwee…
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Concrete and Hope: The End of the Invincible Base
For eighty years, an American military base was a promise: power that could not be touched. Now the Pentagon is quietly asking how to make its buildings disappear. "Every major military installation i…
They Declared The War Over. The Bombers Fled.
The United States has been winning this war so completely that its own long-range bombers packed up and left the country that was hosting them. "I'm not concerned at all." — Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM …
The Midterms Are A Ceasefire, Not A Peace
The most powerful government on Earth has agreed to a ceasefire with an expiration date, and the date is your election. "Hunting season is open as soon as the elections end and it's obvious that they'…
Trump's 21,600-Pound Exit Strategy
The Pentagon has a 21,600 pound bomb that cannot destroy the target it was aimed at, and a president who needs the explosion more than the outcome. "The MOAB is a massive information operation type we…
The War Is Over. The Dead Are Still Being Counted.
The Pentagon declared the Iran war over in June, then spent four more months refusing to count the men and women it kept losing. "We have nothing to provide beyond the Defense Casualty Analysis System…
The War Is Over. The Bombers Ran Home Anyway.
The United States declared this war over in July. In October, its bombers ran home from England, because the military could no longer protect them. "I'm not concerned at all." — Admiral Brad Cooper, C…
Trump Rejected The Deal That Would've Ended The War
A war that could have ended in seven days now has a new deadline: November 3. The president, a self-described dealmaker, turned down the only deal on the table. "I Rejected Their Deal. They Want To Ma…
The Pentagon Says Nineteen.
The War Department added a body to its own ledger, told almost no one, and is now showing the one number that makes the war look the least bad. "They want to tell you that the war is going fine, and t…
Grounded: Washington's War on Iranian Skies
The most powerful weapon in the American arsenal has no barrel: it is an invoice, a deadline, and a note to every airport on earth that says, land that plane at your own risk. "You cannot provide them…
It Took the UN to Notice the School Was a School
The Pentagon's targeting database still listed the school as part of a military base, until the United Nations looked at the satellite photos and noticed the murals, the playground, and the children. …
The War They Told You Was Already Won
The most honest document the Pentagon has produced in months is one it had no intention of making public. "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. We're…
The Vote They Voted Not to Hold
A defeated congressman had one trick left in his sleeve, and it forced his own party to go on the record about a war that killed 168 schoolgirls. "All I know, all I can say, is that we're investigatin…
The War He Called 'Over Soon' Is Now $4.32 a Gallon
Seven months after the president promised a four-to-six-week war, its bill has arrived at the pump. "He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, b…
We Will Never Forget, Unless the War Needs a Lie
Twenty-five years after the worst attack on American soil, the country's leaders told two false stories in a single week, and between them turned a national day of mourning into a sales pitch for the …
Trump Schedules the Iran War Around the Midterms
The president who started a war on a whim has now given it a calendar: November, after the votes are in. "I think war is going to end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any lon…
Trump Calls the Iran War "Small Potatoes"
Six months into a war he said would last "four to five weeks," the man who started it is now describing it as "small potatoes." "I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's …
NIH Cash for Iran Bombs
An administration running out of money for a war it never got permission to start has reached, without telling anyone, into the science budget meant to cure disease. "This secretive attempt to siphon …
Vance Says "Things Happen"
The U.S. military never targets civilians. It only ever accidentally hits them, at scale, repeatedly, and then investigates the wreckage of its own claims. "What I can say with 100% confidence is that…
US Bombing of an Iranian Wedding Called a War Crime
America is at war with a country it says it wants a deal with, and on the same Tuesday it refused negotiations, it dropped a bomb on a wedding. "The U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike the I…
Trump Bombed an Island No One Hit
The president bombed a place that was never hit, with a video no plane filmed, and then told the country the enemy was finished. "Mr. Trump's tweets are laughable, and conditions in Kharg are calm and…
Iran War Left Allies Short of Missiles. China Watched.
A war fought for the Strait of Hormuz is quietly unmaking the military deterrent meant for the Pacific. "We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in …
Big Oil Is Raking In Trump's War Windfall
The war Trump's own voters are deserting is, it turns out, a boom time for the men who already own the country's refineries. "There is a massive transfer of wealth occurring as billions around the wor…
Bessent Promises to Break Iran, Then Asks Why
The Treasury Secretary spent the weekend promising to break a country. Then, at the press conference where he actually did it, he asked why he should. "Why would I want to blow up the global financial…
ICE's Passport Office
An administration that calls a foreign government a death machine quietly hands its passport to that same government's agents and books a seat for a dozen of its dissidents. "Iran has requested that I…
He Threatened to Bomb the Peacemaker
A two-month truce is supposed to be a runway toward peace. This one was a countdown to the next threat, and the threat was aimed at a country that has not fired on the United States in two centuries o…
They Pulled the Drills Because Seoul Said No
A president who is fighting a war in the Persian Gulf just told his most reliable ally in Asia that he is disappointed it said no, and that he would like to charge it less for being disappointed. "I r…
Trump: Sailors Not At Sea Long Enough
Five thousand sailors are stranded aboard a floating metal prison, some of them trying to jump overboard. The man who sent them there says the war has not gone on long enough. "Have some sympathy, som…
Pentagon Hid Iran War Dead Behind Bureaucratic Wordplay
pentagon, iran war, casualties, hegseth, duckworth The Pentagon quietly changed how it counts the dead, because the truth was getting too heavy to carry. "I don't have the confidence in the Pentagon, …
Irans Choke Point: The Strait America Cannot Bomb
Iran has proven that controlling 21 miles of water is more powerful than an aircraft carrier. "The Strait of Hormuz will not be reopened through military attacks." — Hossein Kanani Moghaddam, former s…
Five Million Off Food Stamps: The Secretary Who Celebrated
A U.S. Cabinet secretary celebrates on a Minnesota stage as five million people stop receiving help to buy groceries. "For those of us that love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not…
Pentagon Hides 900 Iran War Casualties in a Spreadsheet
Pentagon, Politics, Pentagon Pete The Pentagon has found a way to make 900 dead and wounded troops disappear into a spreadsheet labeled "Overseas Operations." "This is certainly designed to conceal th…
The US Went to War With Iran. Then It Ran Out of Missiles.
trump, munitions, iran, military The United States went to war with Iran and ran out of missiles before it ran out of things to hit. "It takes several years to produce a missile. If you put money into…
Trump Spends 70% of His Brain on Construction
An 80-year-old president has spent the better part of his second term acting as his own architect, designer, and interior decorator while the country he was elected to lead faces a war, economic anxie…
Trump Defends Iran as Its Hackers Target Minnesota Water
A president at war with Iran tells the American public that Iran could not possibly have hacked Minnesota's water systems. "Iran should be so lucky. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minn…
The Pentagon Erased Four Dead Soldiers From Its Iran War Count
The Pentagon quietly removed four dead soldiers from the Iran war death toll, then called it a data glitch. "The classification of Iran conflict casualties under Overseas Operations is grounded strict…
GOP Hid Voter Suppression Inside an Iran War Bill
The House GOP tucked $10 billion for voter suppression inside a war funding bill, then pretended the two things had nothing to do with each other. "Show me how this ends. What's the picture of victory…
Pentagon Erased 4 Dead Soldiers From Iran War List
The Pentagon erased four dead soldiers from its Iran war casualty list in a single night, then blamed it on a website glitch. "The administration seems to have a real hard time being honest about what…
Pentagon Hides 100+ Wounded as Iran War Casualties Spiral
pentagon, iran war, military, trump The official death toll says 19. A government official says the real number of Americans killed or wounded is far higher, and that the discrepancy is by design. "Of…
Iran Strikes the Gulf. The Ceasefire Was Always Doomed.
The world's most vital oil chokepoint has been reduced to a shooting gallery, and the ceasefire that was supposed to fix it is already dead. "A return to full-scale hostilities would have catastrophic…
Trump Threatens to Decimate Iran While Diplomats Scramble
The president of the United States threatens to annihilate a country on social media while diplomats scramble behind the scenes to stop the very war he is hyping. "1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded …
U.S. Sharing Asylum Seeker Data With Iran, Lawsuit Alleges
A country at war with another country is quietly feeding its enemy the names of people who fled it. "Congress made these confidentiality protections mandatory precisely because lives depend on them, a…
Israel Tries to Kill Iran Negotiators to Derail US Peace
israel, iran, trump, netanyahu The United States went to extraordinary lengths to protect Iran's negotiators from assassination, and the country it asked to protect them from was its closest ally in t…
Trump Bombs Iran the Day After Signing Ceasefire
The United States signed a ceasefire with Iran, then bombed Iran. "Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement." — Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 26, 2026 The memorandum of und…
Bolton Pleads Guilty to Retaining Classified Documents
john bolton, trump, classified documents, justice The man who called for war with Iran and North Korea now has federal prosecutors asking for five years in his own country's prison. "None of which we …
Congress Finally Votes to Stop Trump's Iran War
For the first time in American history, both chambers of Congress voted to stop a president's unauthorized war. "Regardless of what President Trump says, this measure is binding under the War Powers R…
Trump Panics as Iran Deal Cracks Under Israel's Defiance
He signed a surrender document at Versailles, threatened to "drop bombs right smack in the middle of their head" at the G7, and privately lost his mind when he realized nobody believed him. "They've g…
Grok Bombed Iran: DOJ Shields Musk From Pollution Lawsuit
The Justice Department intervened to protect a billionaire's data center from an environmental lawsuit by revealing his AI chatbot helped the military bomb 2,000 targets in Iran. "Grok provides critic…
Trump Declared Victory in Iran on Day 11. He Was Wrong.
Trump declared victory in his war with Iran eleven days after starting it. More than two thousand hours later, every single objective remains unmet. "We won. In the first hour it was over." : Donald T…
GOP Defies Trump Over Iran War
A president can start a war without Congress, but he cannot stop his own party from eventually turning against it. "I'd say in that part of the world, 'cease-fire' is when you're shooting in a more mo…
The House Finally Said No to Trump's Unauthorized War
Three months into an unauthorized war, the House finally voted to end it. "You either follow the law or you change the law. You can't violate the law." \- Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., on why he vote…