The Afghan government classifies all metrics that would show its failure to reach goals, or stops collecting the information entirely, a government watchdog told a Senate subcommittee led by Sen. Rand Paul today. “Do any specific trends lead you to believe that Afghan security forces will one day be able to hold off the Taliban… […]
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Just a Little Sloppy Record-Keeping? The Pentagon’s $35 Trillion ‘Accounting Black Hole’…
Over the past two weeks of coronavirus headlines and heightened global anxiety, along with impeachment coverage and after over the Super Bowl weekend Americans huddled in living rooms in blissful oblivion, a story which in more normal times would be front and center has gone largely unnoticed. To be sure, the Pentagon couldn’t be happier […]
Thousands Have Been Killed in Afghanistan ‘Reconstruction,’ Stunning Watchdog Report Reveals…
A first-of-its-kind report on the “human costs” of U.S. efforts toward reconstruction in Afghanistan reveals that thousands have been killed or wounded in the process of trying to stabilize the region. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report, released Tuesday, notes that they have long been calculating the financial costs of reconstruction, but […]
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Senate Votes to Limit Trump’s Military Authority Against Iran…
The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution limiting President Donald Trump’s authority to attack Iran without congressional approval, delivering the president another bipartisan foreign-policy rebuke and flexing its constitutional power over military actions. The 55-45 vote came nearly six weeks after Trump ordered an airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general who led […]
Trump Administration Signals Afghanistan Drawdown Is Close…
Multiple signs are currently pointing toward a U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan. What they’re saying: Defense Secretary Mark Esper said today that he’s comfortable with a smaller U.S. troop presence, national security adviser Robert O’Brien said he’s “cautiously optimistic” an announcement is forthcoming, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Afghan president to fill him […]
Barr Announces Sweeping New Sanctions, ‘Significant Escalation,’ Against Left-Wing Sanctuary Cities…
Charging that so-called “sanctuary” cities that protect illegal immigrants are jeopardizing domestic security, Attorney General Bill Barr announced a slew of additional sanctions that he called a “significant escalation” against left-wing local and state governments that obstruct the “lawful functioning of our nation’s immigration system.” Speaking at the National Sheriff’s Association 2020 Winter Legislative…
President Trump and Vice President Pence Pays Tribute to Two Special Forces Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan…
President Donald Trump traveled Monday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to pay respects to two U.S. soldiers killed Saturday in Afghanistan when a soldier dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire with a machine gun. The Defense Department identified the dead American soldiers as Sgt. Javier Jaguar Gutierrez, 28; and Sgt. Antonio […]
He Never Thought ICE Would Come for Him. Sixteen Years and Four DUIs Later, They Did…
Emanuel was in disbelief when he saw federal immigration officers show up to his workplace. He never thought they would come for him. “I told this guy — ‘What’s going on?’ He told me nothing. He arrests me,” he says. Emanuel Mendoza-Morales, 42, was born and raised in Mexico, but for the past 17 years […]
Former Air Force Drone Operator Says U.S. Military is “Worse Than Nazis”…”I knew in my soul I had become a murderer”…
A former drone operator has claimed that the U.S. military is worse than the Nazis in a recent interview during which he revealed that his superiors told him “it’s just a dog” when he killed a child in Afghanistan. The drone operator turned whistleblower, Staff Sergeant Brandon Bryant, gave an exclusive interview with the Daily […]
A Powerful New Air Force Video Pays Tribute to Brig. Gen. Charles McGee and the Tuskegee Airmen…
A new video produced by the Air Force will have you standing to salute Brig. Gen. Charles McGee, a 100-year-old retired fighter pilot, who, along with his fellow Tuskegee Airmen, helped liberate Europe in World War II and bolster the cause of civil rights at home. President Donald Trump honored McGee in his State of […]
Former Navy Diver Kidnapped in Afghanistan…
An American contractor was captured by Taliban-aligned militants in Afghanistan last week, triggering a country-wide recovery effort, Newsweek has learned. Mark R. Frerichs of Lombard, Illinois, was kidnapped last Friday in Khost, a province located in the southeastern part of the country that borders the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, an underdeveloped region between Afghanistan and […]
U.S. Halts Secretive Drone Program with Turkey over Syrian Incursion…
The United States has halted a secretive military intelligence cooperation program with Turkey that for years helped Ankara target Kurdish PKK militants, four U.S. officials told Reuters. The U.S. decision to indefinitely suspend the program, which has not been previously reported, was made in response to Turkey’s cross-border military incursion into Syria in October, the […]
A Chinese National’s Sloppy Cover Story Exposed Smuggling of Sensitive U.S. Microchips…
US federal agents arrested a Chinese citizen attempting to obtain hundreds of radiation-hardened microchips typically used in satellites and ballistic missile systems as he tried to leave the United States last year, according to court documents obtained by Quartz. The bust, which had not been reported in the media until now, was the culmination of […]
Air Force Saw Record-Breaking Number of Suicides in 2019…
The U.S. Air Force says 137 airmen across the active duty, Guard and Reserve died by suicide in 2019, a 33% increase over the previous year. Officials confirmed the number last week after the latest statistics appeared on social media. Suicide is a difficult national problem without easily identifiable solutions that has the full attention […]
Toxic ‘Black Goo’ Base Used by US Had Enriched Uranium. More Veterans Report Cancer…
For the last six weeks, a private Facebook group set up to help veterans who served at a toxic base in Uzbekistan has been flooded with new members, many with hauntingly familiar stories: I served at K2. I have cancer. “It was overwhelming,” said retired Army Chief Warrant Officer Scott Welsch, a special operations military […]
‘No Blank Check for War’: House Votes to Bar Trump Military Action on Iran…
On Thursday the Democratic-led House passed legislation to stop funding for military action in Iran and to repeal the 2002 war authorization for Iraq — which multiple administrations have based unilateral military actions on without the approval of Congress. Predictably, Trump has threatened to veto both bills amid an ongoing struggle in which doves in […]
Suspects Accused of Running $7M Fentanyl Ring Released on Bail…
Six suspected drug dealers who are accused of running a $7 million fentanyl distribution operation out of a Bronx apartment were released without bail under the state’s new criminal justice law early Wednesday. The suspects — Livo Valdez, Jaslin Baldera, Frederick Baldera, Frandi Ledema, Diego Tejada and Parfraimy Antonio — were arrested Monday when officers […]
Deconstructing the Deal: A Breakdown of Trump’s Plan…
Middle East Eye deconstructs the 181-page plan here to give you a broad sense of what it proposes along with lingering questions over exactly how it plans to attain those aims. We’ll be adding to this as we scour the deal. After a two-year wait for Donald Trump’s Middle East plan to address the Israel-Palestine […]
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US Charges Harvard Professor, 2 Researchers with Aiding Chinese Regime…
Federal authorities have charged a Harvard professor, a Chinese military official, and a Chinese researcher, in three unrelated cases, with offenses related to aiding the Chinese regime, the Justice Department announced on Jan. 28. In one case, Charles Lieber, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, was arrested on Jan. […]
Donald Trump and the Mythmakers…
For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel. Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump has rejected and disavowed […]
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