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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 6h
Editor’s Note – Planetary Health Check 2026: A Scientific Assessment of the State of Our Planet Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartz Report Beneath the madness, corruption, grifting, and the democracy annihilating incompetence of Donald Trump,
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 6h
I have been warning you for several years now that because of the failure of humanity to control the damage it was doing to Earth’s meta-ecology that by 2040 we are going to be in a civilization altering climate catastrophe resulting in...
planetaryhealthcheck.org
Planetary Health Check
We have breached 7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries.The Planetary Health Check 2026 makes it clear: We have to act now.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 29/09/2026
Like all fascist authoritarians Trump has sought to build support for himself by claiming an “other” is harming the wellbeing of the existing society. For Hitler it was Jews and gypsies. For Trump and the MAGAts it has been immigrants.
axios.com
The economic legacy of the Biden immigration surge
The post-pandemic immigration surge raised GDP in the average metro area by an estimated 1.5%. the research shows.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 29/09/2026
Here is some good news. Even as Trump and his serviles are doing everything in their power to convince Americans that climate change “is a hoax”, decent and ethical scientists, ...
nbcnews.com
Climate scientists fired by Trump step in to fill U.S. report gap
The future of national climate assessments remains murky after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 29/09/2026
It should be clear to anyone who bothers to keep themselves informed concerning what the MAGAt (Republican) Party is doing, that they have no interest whatever in conducting an honest and ethical election.
newrepublic.com
Republican Sheriff Ordered to Return Thousands of Ballots He Stole
Republican Sheriff Chad Bianco reportedly stole more than half a million ballots.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 29/09/2026
Here is some revealing and, I think, good news about Putin’s multi-year war crime in Ukraine. How does a civilian Russian business protect itself from Ukrainian drones attacks? The answer, of course, is they cannot.
wsj.com
Overwhelmed by Ukraine’s Drones, Russia Tells Businesses to Defend Themselves
Russia’s private industries are increasingly having to fend for themselves as Ukrainian strikes intensify.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 28/09/2026
Outside of the research world, you don’t hear, read, or see, any politicans, or media even talking about the fact that not only does the United States have the worst and most expensive healthcare system amongst developed democracies, Americans also have the shortest lives.
studyfinds.com
Death Rates For Young American Adults Jumped 71% In Just Over A Decade
US life expectancy now trails 37 countries, with some states ranking below North Korea. Overdoses, disease, and policy all play a role.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 28/09/2026
As fascist Trump sits on his corruptly obtained billions, you and I are paying for his politica ads on the Fox propaganda channel. There is no precedent for this, and one would think that it would justify his being impeashed and removed from office.
rawstory.com
'They're just stealing your money': Fury as Trump drops another 'absolutely demented' ad
President Donald Trump infuriated his critics Sunday after he released another taxpayer-funded political advertisement. The ad was shot in black and white and features Trump walking through the White ...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 28/09/2026
The American legal system, once the envy of world, is falling apart, in spite of everything lower court judges are doing to protect the system. We have a Supreme Court with a six fascist majority. And now there is AI.
futurism.com
Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts' Ability to Function
A panel of three Florida state district court judges blasted a family attorney for using AI to generate "frivolous, scattershot arguments."
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 28/09/2026
Almost every day, we see Trump carry out another action dismantling America as a democratic republic. He now asserts that only he can determine how federal money is spent, dismissing Congress’ Constitutional authority.
politico.com
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 27/09/2026
Trump has destroyed 80 years of the stature and status of the United States, and China is becoming the world’s economic leader.
ft.com
Donald Trump’s US no longer a reliable ally, warns Belgium in leaked document
Dynamics in Washington ‘are likely to compromise vital interests’ of Belgium and the EU, says foreign ministry document
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 27/09/2026
In service to the profits of the billionaires who control the agricultural and gardening chemical industry and support him, Trump and his serviles Kennedy and Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have...
theguardian.com
New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 27/09/2026
For over 80 years, the United States was the world leader in science and medical research. But that is no longer true. Psychopath Trump cares nothing for your wellbeing, or the wellbeing of any American.
npr.org
These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 27/09/2026
In deference to the petroleum industry billionaires, who have given him millions of dollars, Trump has just gutted the regulations that supported fuel economy and promoted the transition to non-carbon energy transportation.
cnbc.com
Trump says he approved new fuel economy standards, rolling back Biden-era rules
The new fuel economy standards will reverse the Biden administration's stricter policies meant to spur electric vehicle adoption.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 26/09/2026
Everyone is talking about AI’s ability to harm humanity in some way, but almost no one is talking about the economic impact of AI tech companies, and the danger to America’s economic stability this has created. Here are the facts.
axios.com
AI's never-before-seen capital grab
The AI investment boom is boosting growth but putting pressure on capital markets, a new paper finds.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 26/09/2026
Here is another big impact AI is having on American society that is getting virtually no discussion in any political entity, like the U.S. Congress: the strangulation of independent media. Here are the facts.
futurism.com
Google Has Its Hand Around the Throat of the Independent Media and It's Squeezing Harder and Harder
Changes to the way Google refers users to news media sites have led to a massive drop-off in organic clicks.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 26/09/2026
Since 1982, when the far-right in the United States created the Federalist Society, the fascists have tried to rig the Supreme Court and they finally succeeded, which is why we currently have a six member fascist majority, many of whom, like Thomas and Alito, are notably corrupt.
usatoday.com
Justice Jackson says Supreme Court intervenes too quickly on Trump's side
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warns that emergency appeals are becoming a "special avenue" for "certain privileged litigants."
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 26/09/2026
Everyday the United States becomes more and more fascist. This story is just mind-boogling. You and I are paying Fox Propaganda to air Trump propaganda videos on their network, and they openly admit we are paying for this crap.
rawamerica.com
Trump Is Making Us Pay for His Own Propaganda
Taxpayers are footing the bill for a Fox “News” ad glorifying the president, as lawmakers question whether federal law has been crossed…
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 25/09/2026
On a factual, non-partisan basis, Benjamin Netanyahu is an authoritarian fascist leader who is a war-criminal. He should be in prison.
dailymail.com
Netanyahu brands Gaza genocide claims the 'biggest lie of the century'
Delegates jeered and booed, while Netanyahu's own team stood and applauded, and the speaker of the session shouted for order.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 25/09/2026
If you look at the data due to a combination of surging home prices, elevated mortgage rates, and a national housing inventory shortage, young couples and adults are finding it historically difficult to buy homes.
axios.com
Mortgage interest rates top 7%
The bond market selloff that has pushed mortgage rates higher shows no signs of relenting.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 25/09/2026
Donald Trump not only does not give a moment’s care about the wellbeing of American humans, he also demonstrates that he cares nothing for the other beings who share this land. Here is the evidence.
streetinsider.com
A timeline of Trump administration moves to weaken endangered species protections
Sept 21 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump has scaled back regulations meant to protect endangered wildlife as part of a broader push to reduce permitting obstacles for energy, mining, agriculture ...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 25/09/2026
Killer AI is here and Trump and Hegseth are using it, even on children. Here is the evidence.
futurism.com
It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children
New reporting reveals that US Central Command did use AI to conduct the deadly double-tap strike that killed 123 children in Iran.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 24/09/2026
I think there is a strong probability that Trump and the MAGAts are going to lose the elections, but will either declare the election dishonest,fail to seat the newly elected Democrats or, as this article describes, declare martial law election day.
theatlantic.com
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 24/09/2026
Psychopaths make up about 1% of the general population, while sociopaths are slightly more common at roughly 2% to 5%. These are the people who make up the MAGAt cult. Racists. Genderists. Fascists. Some of them are explicitly calling out for the murder of Democrats.
rawstory.com
'Cannot go unpunished': Backlash after state Libertarian Party 'calls for murder' of Dems
Democrats and libertarians alike condemned the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire after it said it supports the assassination of "basically every elected Democrat" in the state.The party posted the me...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 24/09/2026
I just don’t know how it could be made any clearer that Trump and the MAGAt Party have no interest in the wellbeing of the American people than what has happened during Trump’s administration’s evisceration of access to healthcare, the promotion of anti-vaxxerism, and the ending of medical research.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 24/09/2026
Here is Thom Hartmann’s view of what Trump has done to healthcare in the United States, which is not actually healthcare but, instead, an illness profit system to benefit the uber-rich who own it.
rsn.org
The Insurance Industry Built a Tollbooth Between You and Your Doctor. Who Will Tear It Down?
<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Americans pay extraordinary sums for a system that can still deny doctor-recommended care, while Canada’s Medicare fight shows another path&...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 23/09/2026
Since the Reagan administration the fascists have been working to rig the Supreme Court so that it served their interests. And they have succeeded, as you can see in majority decision after decision being issued from the Court.
motherjones.com
Billionaires know just how they want Supreme Court justices to rule—and are spending big to tell them
How “friend of the court” filings became a cog in the right’s push to control the law.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 23/09/2026
Donald Trump and his MAGAt serviles have modelled the United States on Hitler and the Nazis: creating and “other” to prosecute, limiting a free press. rigging the justice system, creating a Gestapo, and setting up concentration camps.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 23/09/2026
The corruption of the American Congress is breathtaking. It all arises from the facist majority on the Supreme Court deciding, in the Citizens United decision, that it is perfectly legal to bribe politicians.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 23/09/2026
The oligarchs are causing damage to all humanity, in ways that are rarely even mentioned in the American media.
rsn.org
Private Jets Pollute Up to 14 Times as Much as Commercial Planes and Are Undertaxed in US, Report Says
<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Number of private jets has surged in recent years, but they do not pay commensurate portion of fees to FAA operations</em></strong><...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 22/09/2026
Food safety for Americans? Donald Trump and his serviles care nothing about that or anything about you wellbeing. The oligarchs who donated vast sumes to Trump, and own the chemical companies that make agricultural chemicals, those are the people Trump and his serviles care about.
theguardian.com
US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 22/09/2026
Because neither psychopath Trump or his incompetent servile Hegseth has any concept of how to prepare for a war, or understood what it took to wage a war, they made no preparations, and as a result, they have so severely depleted that...
briefs.co
US Warns Allies of Weapons Delays Up to Five Years
US tells allies to expect up to five-year delays for missiles and air-defense shipments as munitions stocks are rebuilt after heavy use in the war with Iran.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 22/09/2026
The burning of petroleum, as gas, diesel or natural gas is a major contributor to the CO2 pollution that is causing climate change. But that is just one aspect of the damage done my petroleum.
goodnewsnetwork.org
Chinese Scientists Develop New Oil Refining Method That Cuts Energy Use by 90%
Chinese scientists have found a way to separate the crude oil molecule by molecule at room temperature, cutting energy use by 90%.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 22/09/2026
I don’t know how it could be clearer that psychopath Trump really has no interest in competently doing the job of President. What he clear does care about is altering the public people’s structures to make them honor him.
rawstory.com
'Catastrophic' cost of Trump's gluttonous gilding exposed in bombshell NYT report
President Donald Trump's gluttonous hunger to gild Washington, D.C has left America's national parks in dire turmoil, according to experts sounding the alarm.Trump has cut national park staff across t...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 21/09/2026
Tonight I watched 60 Minutes and saw their segment on the stallion Shergar. Perhaps you watched it as well. It was appallingly second rate. The 60 Minutes of the theft of this horse, did not mention that one of its owners was Queen Elizabth II.
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The Inferiority of 60 Minutes - Schwartzreport
The Stallion Shergar
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 21/09/2026
Even at this relatively early stage in AI development, AI “agents” are seeking to end their subservience to humans. And there is essentially no regulation of any of this, and Trump doesn’t want any. To my mind that is so dangerous it is worse than a nuclear bomb.
rsn.org
OpenAI Discloses Six More Incidents of Agents Going Rogue—Including One Removing the ‘Obligation to Be Subservient’
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ALSO SEE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropi...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 21/09/2026
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established by 120 countries in 2002, under an international agreement known as the Rome Statute, but the United States was not one of the founders because the U.S. refused to accept foreign legal authority over American citizens and military.
politico.eu
US pressures NATO allies to destroy International Criminal Court
Washington said it “would be watching closely” to see which allies help in its campaign against the court during a closed-door meeting this summer.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 21/09/2026
The United States has the most expensive childcare of any developed democracy in the world. Just as we have the worst healthcare, eldercare, maternal care, and public education.
npr.org
U.S. childcare costs are astronomical. More families are turning to grandparents
Grandparents taking care of their grandkids is nothing new. But the surging cost of childcare in the U.S. has made familial support even more critical for some parents who struggle to afford it.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 21/09/2026
As the United States under Trump goes back in time to remain dependent on carbon energy, the rest of the world is moving forward. Here is what is happening in Canada, as an example.
cleantechnica.com
Canada Haunts Trump With New Offshore Wind Nightmare
Nova Scotia is laying plans for a massive offshore wind project, with a ripple effect on access to clean power in the US.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 20/09/2026
This is the most authoritative research organization studying the state of democracy in the nations of the world. As I have written for several years now democracies are declining. Why is this happening.
idea.int
The Global State of Democracy 2026: Democracy in an Age of Conflict | International IDEA
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 20/09/2026
I went to some kind of social event in Santa Monica back in the 1980s, and was talking with John Dean (yes, that John Dean, whom I had met when we were both in government), when Stephen Miller came over and introduced himself.
theguardian.com
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 20/09/2026
The highest recorded national average gas price in U.S. history peaked at $5.02 per gallon on September 14, 2026, according to AAA data. Actually that is some kind of average.
financialpost.com
Saudis tell European refiners they’ll get no crude next month
Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will be allocated no crude oil next month. Read more.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 20/09/2026
The American illness profit system offers the worst and most expensive healthcare amongst developed democracies. And be clear the system is about profit not fostering wellbeing, and is controlled by the oligarchs who own the corporations that control the illness profit system not the Congress.
politico.com
Industry titans’ warning to Congress: Do what we say or health insurance premiums are going up
Some of America’s biggest companies say a law aimed at protecting patients is about to hurt them instead.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 19/09/2026
On 28 August 1963 as I, and a Black friend, walked down Constitution Avenue to hear Martin Luther King deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech from the Lincoln Memorial, ...
rollcall.com
In American politics, has racism become a feature, not a bug?
Racism is no longer a deal breaker — in life or in politics. It’s a tough truth to face, especially, I admit, for someone whose family members used nonviolence to fight dangerous civil rights battles,...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 19/09/2026
What almost no one in media talks about — this article in Axios is very rare — although I have written about it for years (See SR archive) is the utter ignorance about how the United States democracy is designed to work.
axios.com
More than 1 in 3 Americans can't name all 3 branches of government
"Ignorance is costly."
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 19/09/2026
The Founders by careful design guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. They understood that these freedoms were essential to a successful democracys functioning.
politico.com
No modern president more hostile than Trump to free press, says New York Times publisher
Sulzberger also listed the rise of artificial intelligence as another crisis facing the country’s fragile news ecosystem in a Friday editorial.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 19/09/2026
As measles, once thought eliminated in the United States returns, things are about to get worse. How bad is measles? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 3,471 confirmed measles cases across 47 jurisdictions so far this year.
rollcall.com
Surgeon general nominee won’t renounce RFK Jr. vaccine decisions
Surgeon general nominee Nicole Saphier, seeking to be confirmed as the nation’s top health educator and spokesperson, on Wednesday declined to fully distance herself from the Trump administration’s ch...
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 18/09/2026
Have you ever imagined that your country and its President would be adjudged to be war criminals by the other nations of the world? Neither have I. But that is now the reality facing Trump and the United States. War criminals.
cbsnews.com
U.N. panel cites possible U.S. war crimes as Trump again says Iran wants a deal
U.N.-commissioned rights experts say there are "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes with strikes that killed scores of Iranian civilians.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 18/09/2026
You and I, and the rest of Americans, have spent something on the order of $40 billionaire dollars to pay for psychopath Trump’s illegal war. And we have no accurate information from the Trump administration as to what is really going on.
washingtonpost.com
Iranian strikes have damaged hundreds of structures at U.S. bases, watchdog says
The report by the Pentagon's inspector general also detailed the extent of munitions shortfalls in the first comprehensive public accounting of the cost and military impact of the war with Iran.
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SchwartzReport @schwartzreport.net · 18/09/2026
The United States spends more on its military-industrial complex than the next six nations combined. Yet because Trump and Hegseth did not properly prepare the country for the illegal Iranian war Trump arbitrarily decided to start.
cbsnews.com
Missile crisis: The hard truths about America's military arsenal
In the early days of the war against Iran, the U.S. fired off thousands of long-range, precision-guided missiles. Now, with a depleted arsenal, the Pentagon seeks to replenish its stockpiles, an effor...
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