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Polymarket Iran War
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Prediction Markets are a National Security Threat

Millions of dollars have been bet and won on the US wars in Venezuela and now Iran through Polymarket. It's ghoulish and corrupt, and has to stop.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)
QiOSK

House and Senate votes fail, giving Trump free rein on Iran war

The final tallies were close, but few Republicans broke ranks to support Congress's authority to approve military force

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The cost of Trump's Iran war: $5 billion and counting

The Pentagon will likely ask for $50B more in emergency funding

Hegseth Caine Pentagon
Washington Politics

‘Un-American’ critics of war represent the majority of Americans

Mega-MAGA might be trying to purge them, but Tucker Carlson and other conservatives have their fingers on the real pulse after this week's Iran strikes

Trump MBS
Military Industrial Complex

Amid turmoil, Trump to give Saudi Arabia sweet nuclear deal

The proposed ‘123 Agreement’ lacks guardrails that would prevent the Kingdom from using our enrichment assistance to build a bomb

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Military Industrial Complex

Weapons makers cash in on Trump's Iran war

Big Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman saw billions added to their market value