Wait a minute, the US is making war plans in Yemen??!! This question is glaringly absent from most if not all the US news coverage of the Signal chat leak. This shock should be equally as important as the national security breach. The US is killing innocent people in Yemen.

“Fifty-three people have died in this latest wave of U.S. airstrikes, five of them children. These are just the latest deaths in a long track record of U.S. killing in Yemen" -@StephSavell of The Costs of War Project to @NickTurse of @TheIntercept

“Fifty-three people have died in this latest wave of U.S. airstrikes, five of them children. These are just the latest deaths in a long track record of U.S. killing in Yemen," @StephSavell of The Costs of War Project told @TheIntercept theintercept.com/2025/03/26/sig…

Looking forward to this conversation tomorrow!

The horrors of war and the joys of play through video games are seemingly incompatible. But their histories are inextricably linked. Our latest report looks at the militarization of video games. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

“Israel’s military capacity is dependent on the high levels of military aid it has received from the United States for the last five decades," says Stephanie Savell. “That aid has ramped up over the last year allowing Israel to wage this war.”  theintercept.com/2025/06/17/ira…

Unmasking American myths about war and the military — In an interview on the Making Peace Visible #podcast, Stephanie Savell discussed whether massive U.S. defense spending is actually making the country safer. ow.ly/UoxZ50WfBuw

BREAKING: The reconciliation bill enacted recently pushes annual U.S. military spending beyond the $1 trillion mark—likely triggering a more than half-trillion-dollar transfer of wealth from taxpayers to military contractors. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Costs of War’s @StephSavell on the new report: “This is not an arsenal of democracy — it’s an arsenal of profiteering. We should keep the enormous and growing power of the arms industry in mind as we assess the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. and globally.” [10/12]

"This is not an arsenal of democracy—it's an arsenal of profiteering." Stephanie Savell on our latest research showing that more than half of Trump's military budget will likely go to military contractors.  commondreams.org/news/pentagon-…

Four major new The Costs of War Project research reports out today on the human and budgetary costs of the post-10/7 wars, two years in.