The neo-conservatives who have duped President Trump into the “steal the oil” scheme in Syria are already distancing themselves from the plan. They know that it will end in failure. Yesterday the New York Times tried to insinuate that the U.S. military was behind the idea to steal Syria’s oil: “Days after President Trump’s abrupt […]
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Analysis: War on Terror Has Killed Over 800k People and Cost $6.4 Trillion…
The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion according to a pair of reports published Wednesday by the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. “The numbers […]
Trump Grants Clemency to 2 Army Officers Accused of War Crimes, Restores Rank to Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher…
President Trump has granted clemency to two Army officers accused or convicted of war crimes and restored Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher to the rank of chief petty officer after he was docked a pay grade after being convicted of posing for a photo with a dead Islamic State (ISIS) fighter, the White House announced Friday. […]
U.S. Troops to Stay in Afghanistan Several More Years, Top General Says…
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain in the country “for several more years.” In an ABC interview broadcast on November 10, Milley noted that, after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the original reason U.S. forces […]
Iran Claims That Ex-FBI Agent Held Since 2007 Is a ‘Missing Person’…
President Donald Trump pressured Iran Sunday to release ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has been unaccounted for since 2007. Levinson went missing after conducting an unauthorized mission in the country. “If Iran is able to turn over the U.S. kidnapped former FBI Agent Robert A. Levinson, who has been missing in Iran for 12 years, […]
Suspects Arrested in LeBarón Massacre; FBI Joins Investigation…
Suspects have been arrested in connection with the massacre of nine members of the LeBarón family in Sonora last week, Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said on Monday, but declined to reveal the name of the criminal organization to which the alleged perpetrators belong. Federal authorities said last week that they believed that La Línea, a […]
President Trump Delivers Remarks During New York Veterans Day Parade – Video and Transcript…
Earlier today President Trump and First Lady Melania attended the New York City Veterans Day parade to honor our nations service members. President Donald J. Trump has made it a priority to support American veterans…Well, thank you very much, Stanley. And thank you for your tremendous support of this wonderful parade. Today, we come together […]
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‘There isn’t a city around that doesn’t celebrate’: How a Kansas Shoe Salesman Created a Holiday to Honor ALL Veterans…
For more than 50 years, Americans who served in the armed forces have been celebrated on Veterans Day thanks to a Kansas shoe salesman. Al King, a shoe store owner from Emporia, Kansas, spearheaded a 1953 campaign to establish Veterans Day on Armistice Day, commemorating the Nov. 11 end of World War I. While King […]
Looks Like U.S. Military Will Be Staying in Syria After All: Top U.S. General Says 500-600 American Troops to Stay in Syria…
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says about 500 or 600 U.S. troops will remain in Syria to counter Islamic State fighters. President Donald Trump recently approved an expanded military mission to secure oil fields across eastern Syria. His decision locked hundreds of U.S. troops into a more complicated presence in Syria despite […]
Diversity unto Death by Mark Steyn…
Today is the tenth anniversary of an appalling act of slaughter, even among the long catalogue of such acts since September 11th. It was committed at an American military base by an “American” major, and thus is analogous to similar acts by Afghan “allies” on western troops in Nato barracks, or the recent murder of […]
Carol Rosenberg Reports from Camp Justice, Guantanamo, 9/11 PreTrial Hearings…
Good morning from Camp Justice. FBI agent Michael Butsch, who interrogated 9/11 defendant Ramzi bin al-Shibh at Guantanamo in 2007, returns to the witness stand today for defense lawyers to question him in open court. The agent was in NYC on 9/11; he’s now based in Connecticut. The 9/11 pretrial hearings are in a lunch […]
U.S. Constructing Two New Bases in Syria’s Oil-Rich Region…
Turkey’s state-run media is reporting the United States is planning two new military bases in Syria’s oil-rich Deir ez-Zor province, which are currently under construction, after US special forces convoys were seen patrolling the area in the past days. Anadolu Agency, citing local sources, said the bases were under construction as evidenced by the influx […]
What Baghdadi’s Death Tells Us About the Real Terror Threat…
What’s the best place to look for the terrorist leader of a defeated Islamic terrorist group? When his men are on the run, look for his hideout in or near the country that sponsors him. We didn’t find Osama bin Laden hiding in a cave in Afghanistan, but in a compound in a Pakistani military […]
Pentagon Expands Permanent Africa Presence with $110M Drone Base in Niger…
Signaling what will be a major uptick in US drone activity across western Africa, US African Command (AFRICOM) announced Friday its airbase Agadez, Niger has gone operational, not just flying surveillance drones as was originally expected, but also armed combat drones. Flights from the base, called Air Base 201, began last week and the patrols […]
The Killing of Baghdadi: Syrians Recall Terrifying Night of U.S. Raid…
Although it is situated in a war zone, the Syrian village of Barisha is a largely sleepy and picturesque place. Some 6,000 people live in the village that lies 5km from the Turkish border, and there are also about 1,000 Syrians displaced from Idlib and elsewhere who have pitched their tents in the red earth […]
Relatives of Islamic State Victims Speak Out After al-Baghdadi’s Death…
The news of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was not enough consolation for many of those who suffered at the hands of the organization. “If only the news I heard was of the death of them all, that might have eased things a bit,” said Um Alaa, the wife of a man […]
Boeing CEO Faces Withering Senate Fire Over Plane Involved in Two Deadly Crashes…
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg faced withering questions from senators Tuesday about two crashes of 737 Max jets and whether the company concealed information about a critical flight system. “We have made mistakes, and we got some things wrong,” Muilenburg conceded. Some members of the Senate Commerce Committee cut Muilenburg off when they believed he was […]
Why Those “Endless Wars” Must Never End by Andrew Bacevich…
Here’s the strange thing for the self-proclaimed greatest power in history, the very one that, in this century, has been fighting a series of unending wars across significant parts of the planet: if you exclude Operation Urgent Fury, the triumphant invasion of the island Grenada in 1983, and Operation Just Cause, the largely unopposed invasion […]
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi Does Not Sleep with the Fishes…
What does a radical Islamic mother say to another radical Islamic mother? Children, they blow up so fast. What a contrast with the raid that killed Bin Laden in May 2011. The Obama Administration came out with conflicting accounts and required the SEALS who carried out the attack to sign non-disclosure agreements. Why? Because the […]
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U.S. to Send ‘Mechanized Forces’ to Secure Syrian Oil Fields…
The U.S. military is planning to send some kind of mechanized force to help keep oil fields in eastern Syria from slipping into the hands of a resurgent ISIS as American troops withdraw from the region. But the plan to send armor to Syria could add extra manpower and logistical strains for U.S. forces in […]
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