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This week, Win Without War Education Fund, A New Policy, and @cipolicy.bsky.social cohosted a panel for staff from 27 congressional offices on accountability for US officials implicated in the Gaza genocide. Hear what our panelists had to say ⬇️

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TONIGHT, 7 PM ET: Can the midterm elections make a difference for US foreign policy? Join a discussion with GA State Rep. @ruwaromman.bsky.social and @moveon.org‘s @shaghdoosti.bsky.social, hosted by Win Without War Education Fund and RepGA. Register here: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

internationalpolicy.orgU.S. Policy Haunted the Cluster Munition Convention Review Conference - CIPIn Laos, U.S. policy was omnipresent in both history of and as a hurdle for the movement to ban Cluster Munitions.

WWWEF @scovillepf.bsky.social Fellow Allie Hansen recently went to Laos to attend the review conference for the treaty that bans cluster munitions. Read her analysis of the conference, and of how US policy helps perpetuate these dangerous weapons. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

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apnews.comFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.

Donald Trump is once again abusing his power to target his political enemies and threaten Black, Muslim, and immigrant communities. It is unacceptable, and we support @repilhan.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/ilha...

Win Without War's statement in response to the announcement that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed by the U.S. government:

Win Without War's statement on the one year anniversary of the 10/10 ceasefire in Gaza:

internationalpolicy.orgRejecting Trump’s corrupt Saudi nuclear deal is only the start - CIPA full denuclearization of the Middle East offers a robust, progressive alternative to Trump's nuclear deal with Saudi.

Senator Merkley is right -- this corrupt deal and its likely regional consequences should be a scandal, as our policy director @samratner.bsky.social lays out: internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Senator Jeff Merkley@merkley.senate.gov

We’re about to sleepwalk into a gravely dangerous nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, and not enough people are talking about this. Here’s what’s happening (thread)

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US policy in the Middle East should center de-nuclearization, not backdoors to proliferation.

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I wrote on Trump's delusional Saudi nuclear deal, the unfolding nuclear proliferation nightmare that everyone predicted, and how progressives can meet a moment that everyone else seems intent on ducking.

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Trump’s proposed Saudi nuclear deal is both a nuclear proliferation risk and a self-enrichment scheme for the Trump family. Congress should reject it, argues @samratner.bsky.social of @winwithoutwar.bsky.social internationalpolicy.org/publications...

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Former State official Stacy Gilbert: It’s unforgivable that officials who gaslit the American people have been permitted to move on to jobs at elite institutions. That’s why it’s more important than ever to hold them accountable and prevent them from continuing to shape US foreign policy.

We thank Senators @welch.senate.gov and @vanhollen.senate.gov for providing opening remarks for this urgent discussion. Thank you to our panelists Stacy Gilbert, @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social, @revjimwallis.bsky.social, and moderator Josh Paul for sharing your expertise.

@akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social: After their support helped Israel kill over 67,000 Palestinians to be killed and cost Dems the 2024 election, former officials like Jake Sullivan, Brent McGurk, and Avril Haines have been allowed to take up cushy positions at universities, think tanks, and VC firms.

Former State Department official Stacy Gilbert: The Biden admin’s policy “seemed to be that we would gaslight the world and tell egregious lies in order to skirt the law” to continue arming Israel — a hypocrisy that compelled Gilbert to resign from a 20-year career in government.

@akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social, journalist and author of "Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza," highlights how Biden officials like Jake Sullivan and Brent McGurk refused to accept the well-documented starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.

@akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social: Biden officials feared that speaking out or trying to hold Israel accountable would damage their career prospects.

Our statement on last night's vote seeking answers to settler violence in the West Bank

Trump's horrific threats against people in Iran continue. Trump's war on Iran is already a disaster -- illegal, immoral, and destructive. Congress shouldn't give him another dime to continue it, and must rein him in before he makes good on his threats to turn it into a genocide.

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Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

18 Sept

Thank you @rokhanna.bsky.social for leading the Illegal War Refund Act. Trump is not only inflicting suffering in the region with his war, he’s also fleecing communities in the U.S. to pay for it.

18 Sept

Americans are paying twice for Trump’s war: once to fund the bombs devastating civilians abroad, and again through the higher prices at home the war is responsible for. This bill would make the Pentagon absorb those economic costs instead of families.

10 Sept

Saying that the mayor of NYC should be barred from memorializing the deadliest attack in his city's history -- which effected every New Yorker, regardless of their faith -- because he is Muslim is pure Islamophobia. We condemn Mr. Giuliani's comments, and all who try to use tragedy to peddle hate.

apnews.comWhat we know about Trump's deal giving US access to vast oil reserves in VenezuelaDetails are emerging about President Donald Trump's deal giving the United States a stake in Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. He's calling it the biggest oil deal ever.

Trump’s new oil deal with the Venezuelan government was not made to help U.S. consumers. It’s imperialism and corruption disguised as business. Here’s what the deal is, and what it is not. Thread below: apnews.com/article/vene...

nytimes.comHow the Pentagon Is Getting Into the Venezuelan Oil Business Under TrumpThe Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, founded by the Biden administration to give loans to bolster the U.S. defense industry, is helping lead President Trump’s oil deal.

It IS a move to bring an increasingly politicized Pentagon further and further into resource extraction, the inevitable result of a return to “gunboat diplomacy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

Trump’s “pivot” to the Western Hemisphere was never about security or human rights. It’s a resource grab, ultimately meant to line the pockets of Trump and his cronies while doing long-term damage to our neighbors.

It WILL deepen corruption. The agreement centers upon an unnamed private company, who will be given the second-largest amount of oil reserves of any private company in the world. Without transparency, there are endless opportunities for Trump to enrich himself.

It IS a way for Trump to cover up the relationship he strained with Canada, a major oil trading partner who is increasingly shifting away from partnership with the U.S.

It ISN’T to help the Venezuelan people. The deal gives the U.S. government direct control over 25% of Venezuela’s future oil reserves for decades. The deal will also likely require a long-term U.S. security presence in Venezuela, deepening U.S. militarization in Latin America.

The deal WON’T relieve U.S. families, who have paid over $700 in gas price increases since the war on Iran began. Experts predict that it will take nearly 10 years to bring oil into production from the fields handed over in the agreement.

iranwarcost.watson.brown.eduIran War Energy Cost TrackerTracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.

6 months into Trump’s disastrous, illegal Iran war, thousands are dead, the world is no safer, and U.S. communities are paying the price through higher gas and grocery bills: iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

pbs.orgCompany backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by IranThe sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father...

And while people suffer, Trump’s family profits. His sons are invested in drone manufacturers who pitch their “products” to Gulf states caught up in the war: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

But this war is deeply unpopular. Trump’s approval is cratering, and Congress has passed a war powers resolution ordering the president to terminate hostilities. It’s time for this disaster to end.

propublica.orgTop Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...

The U.S. campaign has killed thousands in Iran – and one of the war’s opening strikes was a horrific attack on a girls’ school. No surprise that an admin which gutted DoD civilian protection programs is so cavalier with civilian lives: www.propublica.org/article/hegs...

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18 U.S. servicemembers have died, and hundreds have been injured, so that Trump could try to out-do his predecessors in starting a senseless, endless war.

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inkstickmedia.comThe US Claims It's Helping Venezuela While Thwarting DemocracyUS President Donald Trump's administration says it's helping Venezuela after deadly earthquakes, but it's also undermining democracy.

21 July

The June earthquakes in Venezuela have already taken an unimaginable human toll. As WWWEF @scovillepf.bsky.social Fellow Allie Hansen writes in her new piece, Trump's neocolonialism is only making recovery more difficult. inkstickmedia.com/the-us-claim...

Last night, to salve Trump’s wounded ego, Senate Republicans attempted to “reverse” Tuesday’s historic war powers vote to end the Iran war with a maneuver that has all the legal authority of “I take backsies”. Worth a quick explanation 🧵

Despite Trump’s crowing and some media reporting that this is some kind of “reversal”, that’s not the case. They’re two different bills with two different legal arguments undergirding their authority. And Congress passed the more assertive of the two on Tuesday.

Trump can cry about it, he can twist Senate Republican arms over it. But he can’t reverse it. H.Con.Res.86 is the law of the land.

Trump, of course, can’t stand to have his warmaking questioned. So he rounded up Senate Republicans on Wednesday to yell at them, in person, for allowing a vote on H.Con.Res.86.

That evening, Republicans brought up a separate @kaine.senate.gov war powers resolution – a joint resolution that had been discharged from committee but was still in procedural limbo – for a hasty pre-recess vote. They defeated it on a “motion to proceed” by a narrow margin.

Unlike a joint war powers resolution (H.J.Res. / S.J.Res.), which the president can veto, H.Con.Res.86 is a concurrent resolution that works as a unilateral assertion of Congress’ Article I authority to decide when and whether the U.S. goes to war.

Until Tuesday, Congress had never passed a concurrent war powers resolution through both chambers – and we’re currently in untested constitutional waters, with dueling claims to authority from the different branches.