US Bases Damage by Iran: $19.94 Billion

 

 by Mohammed M.A. Abunahel and David Swanson | Nov 10, 2026 | News | 2 Comments

Reprinted from World BEYOND War:

World BEYOND War has just published a new report by Mohammed M.A. Abunahel and David Swanson called The Damage Done to U.S. Bases in the War on Iran: Documenting Attacks, Assessing Damage, and Estimating Financial Losses (full report here).

The estimated cost of replacing U.S. military property either completely destroyed or severely damaged by Iranian attacks, according to the calculations in the report, is $19.94 billion. When we read cost estimates for the U.S. role in the war of $43.6 billion, we can therefore correct that to an estimated $63.5 billion — not counting economic impacts or lost opportunity costs.

This report documents the damage done by Iranian attacks on both U.S. bases and on non-U.S. buildings and people in Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Cyprus, and Israel.

According to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio the United States attacked Iran because Israel was planning to attack Iran, which was understood as likely to produce Iranian attacks on U.S. bases. Through the course of the war, the U.S. government has used the bases it has maintained thousands of miles away from the United States to describe its attacks on Iran as “defensive.” Prior to the build-up to war, over 50,000 U.S. troops occupied dozens of bases in some of the world’s most brutal dictatorships — dictatorships propped up in part by these bases.

When the U.S. Congress takes up legislation to authorize more military spending, the question must be carefully addressed: how much funding will go to rebuilding bases that make wars more likely and which have a high probability of being destroyed again, and is it fair to the host nations to impose bases that not only support unpopular rulers but also turn the surrounding areas into targets?

This report should have long since been produced by the U.S. government. Independent researchers should not have to make estimates based on news reports and what scraps of information the U.S. government sees fit to make public. Secrecy, like an archipelago of foreign bases, is one factor contributing to the initiation of wars. This report is offered in hopes of shining what light it can into the darkness of U.S. war policy.

Piecing together the costs to U.S. government property is not meant to distract from the massive human and property costs that this war has inflicted on the people of Iran. Rather, it is intended to help inform the U.S. public of one small part of what its government does with its money.

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/11/10/us-bases-damage-by-iran-19-94-billion/

Poll: Most Americans, Including Republicans, Want Congress To Pass Legislation To End Iran War

 

by Dave DeCamp | November 10, 2026 at 5:06 pm ET | Iran

A new poll from Reuters/Ipsos has found that a majority of US adults, including the majority of Republicans, want Congress to pass legislation to end the Iran war, a conflict that’s been extremely unpopular among the American people.

The poll asked if respondents would support or oppose the incoming Democrat-led Congress passing legislation to end the Iran war, and 71%, including 51% of Republicans, said they would support the effort.

The poll was conducted in the days following the midterm elections, which saw a major Republican defeat, and the war and the increase in the cost of living as a result of it were identified as the major factors in the Democrats’ victory.

USS George Washington conducts operations in the Arabian Sea amid the US blockade on Iran, October 14, 2026 (US Navy photo)

Both Vice President JD Vance and President Trump have acknowledged that the war cost the GOP the midterms, though Trump continues to defend his decision to launch it and continues to escalate the ongoing blockade and sanctions campaign against the Islamic Republic.

The current Congress has already passed a War Powers Resolution directing President Trump to end the war, but it’s been ignored by the administration.

Democratic leadership has threatened to use the “power of the purse” to end the war by potentially blocking funding for the federal government until the conflict ends. The issue could become a major battle before the new Congress is sworn in, as lawmakers must pass a continuing resolution by December 11 to keep the government funded.

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/11/10/poll-most-americans-including-republicans-want-congress-to-pass-legislation-to-end-iran-war/

Jillian Segal’s school curriculum changes will backfire

Jillian Segal’s school curriculum changes will backfire

By Jeff Loewenstein

Australian kids will learn ‘Jewish history‘ starting in 2027, the education minister has said

The Israel lobby demands, and the government folds. This is the current mode of governance in Australia, as reflected by the education minister’s decision last week to change the school curriculum from 2027 to “strengthen the teaching of … antisemitism” – a change that should alarm parents of school-aged children.

The federal education minister, Jason Clare, was provided a pressure-free platform on ABC Radio National last week to announce that students will gain a “more thorough teaching of the Holocaust … [and] Jewish history, as well as the contribution that Jewish Australians have made to Australia”.

Clare referenced the “Antisemitism Education Taskforce” as the brains behind “these changes to the curriculum that was presented to ministers”.

The idea was initially born out of Jillian Segal’s widely-condemned antisemitism plan, released in July 2025, which called for “embed[ding] Holocaust and antisemitism education … in national and state school curricula”. The taskforce, which is headed by pro-Israel businessman David Gonski and includes Segal, is overseeing the execution of the plan with regards to education.

Parents should be horrified to learn that their children will be taught the matters outlined by Clare, in a country which prides itself as being religiously and ethnically diverse, non-denominational (see Section 116 of our Constitution) and with almost 10 million Australians reported as having no religion.

Jews, of whom there are about 120,000 in Australia – including the writer and many others who oppose the Israel lobby’s clear intent to manipulate our education system – will be appalled to see Jews deemed worthy of ‘special treatment’ in educating Australia’s children.

The singling out of Jewish Australians with respect to the ‘contribution’ (whatever that might mean) they have made to Australia does not make Jews any ‘safer’. It clearly tells the other 99 per cent of the country that one group sits above all others. Forget about First Nations and immigrants of different ethnic, cultural or religious backgrounds being recognised as valuable contributors to Australia.

Segal’s intent and plan is patently clear. Her aim is not to address antisemitism, let alone the social cohesion which the Royal Commission has been charged to address. Her agenda, and that of the Israel lobby, is to silence criticism of Israel. Why else push the adoption of the IHRA definition of what constitutes antisemitism – which its author just said has been poisoned to the point of useless?

When Segal says that it is okay to criticise Israel, she speaks with a forked tongue. It would be more apt to retitle Segal’s role from ‘Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’ to ‘thought policewoman’, as this is precisely how she and her unelected, taxpayer-funded office are operating.

But attempts by Segal and the Israel lobby to indoctrinate Australians into forging a pro-Israel outlook from birth will fail. To the contrary, it will potentially cause real antisemitism by instilling in the minds of Australians that one, small group deserves a privileged status. This breeds resentment, not sympathy.

Is Segal blind to the fact that 79 per cent of Australians do not look upon Israel favourably? Does she truly think manipulating the education system will undo the damage? Surely those who understand the gravity of a genocide know the long-lasting endurance of such crimes in the memories of those who bore witness – and hundreds of millions did, on their phones, daily.

Segal and her supporters will not be able to erase what people have seen Israel do in Gaza. What Zionism is all about in action – death, destruction, injury, starvation, cruelty and colonialism – has been exposed for the world to see.

Australians will not accept what Segal is proposing. Instead, what is being revealed to them is the insidious workings of the Israel lobby as part of Israel’s global PR campaign – and it’s making many in this country, Left and Right, uncomfortable.

One need only look to the recent US elections to see how Israel is now on the nose. The influence of the Israel lobby and Netanyahu in US politics has been called out like never before. Not even tens of millions of dollars poured into pro-Israel candidates (or servants) by AIPAC could save them from defeat. Add to that the large number of American Jews now siding with the Palestinians over Israel.

That Clare, federal and state governments and mainstream journalists in this country still speak of criticism of Israel as being antisemitic begs one to ask: what world are these people living on? Can they not see that the elections in our supposed ‘greatest ally’ have just shattered these gaslighting talking points?

Israel – despite the tireless work of its lobbyists from Woollahra and Caulfield to Washington and New York – has lost the narrative.

All the desperate attempts to skew the narrative have failed. Nothing is working. Not the purchasing of nearly every major media, film and TV production company in the US. Not the purchasing of TikTok. Not strong-arming weak and incompetent western governments into criminalising “hate speech” and labelling protests as “terrorist” activity. Not militarised police forces sent to beat up protesters. Not the front-page spreads in mainstream papers – which fewer people are reading.

And changing our school curriculum won’t solve that palpable and justified anger towards Israel – it will intensify it.

Note - Jeffrey was a member of the Victorian Bar and a one-time Chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission and member of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria

DEMOCRAT PARTY THREATEN NEW REP DON LEANARD IF HE DOESN’T SUPPORT ZIONIST HAKEEM JEFFRIES

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DEMOCRAT PARTY THREATEN NEW REP DON LEANARD IF HE DOESN’T SUPPORT ZIONIST HAKEEM JEFFRIES He wants to end the support of Israel and war in Iran. He said the threats are like “out of a movie.”

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There it is… from his mouth 🚨 Netanyahu Funded Hamas $35M a Month via Qatar, using U.S. Tax Dollars,

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OH. MY. GOD. There it is… from his mouth Netanyahu Funded Hamas $35M a Month via Qatar, using U.S. Tax Dollars, and tells Investigators: “This is confidential and can’t be leaked, okay? We have neighbors here, sworn enemies. I’m constantly passing them messages. I confuse them, mislead them, lie to them, and then HIT them over their heads.” • Netanyahu worked to keep GAZA under the control of HAMAS. And keep the West Bank under the control of the Fatah with the goal of preventing them from ever being united. • Netanyahu arranged for Hamas to receive $35 Million Dollars every month from Qatar —— suitcases of $35M in American currency, every single month. “Because the Qatar knew him, they made him put the request in writing because they knew he was going to lie in the future.” The result? $1+ BILLION went into the hands of Hamas…

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