President Donald Trump railed against what he called “the military-industrial complex” when asked about potential conflict with Iran during an interview with Steve Hilton of Fox News Channel Sunday. “Well, I’m the one that talks about these wars that are 19 years, and people are just there, and don’t kid yourself, you do have a […]
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Dept of Defense Inspector General Exposes Pentagon Contractor’s 9,400% Profit on Half-Inch Pin…
TransDigm Group Inc. sold the Pentagon “drive pins” for $4,361 each – should only cost $46, a 9,400% gain in excess profits, according to the Inspector General US Department of Defense’s audit labeled “For Official Use Only” obtained by Bloomberg. The inspector general’s audit shows 98 of 100 parts inspected were overinflated in value and […]
Barr: Trump Drives a Stake Through United Nations Gun Control Treaty…
Late last month, President Trump signed an executive memorandum officially notifying the United Nations that the United States was withdrawing its support for a United Nations-backed treaty former Secretary of State John Kerry signed in 2013. With this action — “un-signing” a treaty document — Trump sent a clear, unambiguous, and long-overdue signal to the […]
The Liberal Embrace of War by Matt Taibbi…
The United States has just suspended flights to Venezuela. Per the New York Times: CARACAS — The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South American nation… A disinterested historian — Herodotus raised from the dead — would see this as just the latest volley […]
Guatemalan Ghost Towns: Traffickers Tout U.S. Asylum Laws to Lure Migrants Away from Homeland…
As President Trump continues to battle what he describes as a do nothing congress for a solution to fix the ongoing border crisis, cartels and human trafficking organizations are taking advantage of the situation. They are using the U.S. laws to perpetuate illegal immigration, promising potential migrants guaranteed access to the U.S. from Guatemala where […]
Trump Warns Illegal Immigrants Released in the U.S.: ‘You Will Be Leaving Soon!’…
“Please do not make yourselves too comfortable, you will be leaving soon!” he wrote on Twitter. Trump commented as border officials are daily releasing thousands of immigrants apprehended at the border into the United States as part of the catch and release loopholes in U.S. immigration law. The Department of Homeland Security revealed that about […]
Trump Sending ‘500 Migrants a Month’ to Florida Democratic Strongholds…
President Donald Trump‘s plans to send potentially hundreds of undocumented immigrants each month to the Democratic strongholds of Broward and Palm Beach counties ignited a torrent of criticism from local Florida officials who called the move political. “The blatant politics, sending them to the two most Democratic Counties in the state of Florida, is ridiculous,” […]
‘That’s Just Insane’: Australia’s Secret Deal to Take in Rwandan Guerrillas from the U.S….
For more than a decade, the United States had a problem: three Rwandan men, sitting in jail in Virginia, who had stood accused of brutally murdering tourists in Africa—but now had a chance of winning release onto American streets. The three had been rounded up after a bloody 1999 attack that made headlines across three […]
U.S. Pulls Nonessential Staff from Iraq Amid Mideast Tensions…
The U.S. on Wednesday ordered all nonessential government staff to leave Iraq, and Germany and the Netherlands both suspended their military assistance programs in the country in the latest sign of tensions sweeping the Persian Gulf region over still-unspecified threats that the Trump administration says are linked to Iran. Recent days have seen allegations of […]
The Lunacy of Waging a War on Iran Which China and Russia Will Win…
The scare mongering about an attack on Iran continues. Bolton must be laughing his ass off how easy he can play the issue based on nothing. He simply counters any debunking of the alleged ‘thread from Iran’ by upping the ante. Yesterday a British general denied that any such threat exists in the area of […]
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White House to Unveil Sweeping Overhaul of Immigration System, Including Merit-Based Admissions…
The White House is set to unveil a sweeping new plan that would radically transform the makeup of immigrants in the United States, ending the visa lottery program and implementing a comprehensive merit-based admissions procedure, three senior administration officials told Fox News on Wednesday. The move would more than quadruple the number of immigrants admitted […]
Lavrov & Pompeo Agree to Work on Nukes Control But Clash on Venezuela, Election Interference (VIDEO)…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov concluded the Sochi talks by agreeing to cooperate on nuclear arms control. The two diplomats, however, could not reach agreement on Venezuela. After emerging from a sit-down in the Russian Black Sea resort on Tuesday, Pompeo and Lavrov both talked of their governments’ […]
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Prosecutors in Navy War Crimes Case Accused of Spying on Defense Attorneys and Navy Times Reporter…
Military prosecutors in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defense lawyers and a reporter in an apparent attempt to discover who was leaking information to the media, according to lawyers who told The Associated Press that they […]
Guarding the Noblest Acre in America by Sen Tom Cotton…
Easy 40 and Easy 71 had just landed at Camp Taji north of Baghdad to refuel and to drop off and pick up passengers. These two Black Hawk helicopters were moving troops around Baghdad-area bases on Jan. 20, 2007. As they took off, Easy 40 had a four-man crew and eight passengers, soldiers with little […]
Inside the Close Naval Encounters in the South China Sea…
The voice on the radio in the middle of the South China Sea follows a familiar script for Captain Eric Anduze, who helms the USS Blue Ridge. It’s China on the phone. “They’ll contact us and they’ll go — ‘U.S. government vessel, this is Chinese Navy vessel’ number whatever — ‘we will maintain five miles […]
Border Patrol Flies Migrants from South Texas to Reduce Overcrowding…
U.S. Border Patrol officials are now using air transportation to move migrants from overcrowded processing centers to lesser-impacted facilities, particularly from the Rio Grande Valley Sector. On Friday, officials in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector began flying migrants from McAllen, Texas, to Del Rio, Texas, the Washington Post reported. The flights are operated […]
Navy SEAL Rejected by FDNY Receives Multiple Offers from Across the U.S….
The decorated Navy SEAL rejected by the FDNY — for being six months and 25 days too old — has received invitations across the country to work for other fire departments. Firefighters from more than a dozen departments nationwide have told Shaun Donovan, who is still fighting to join the FDNY, that he is welcome […]
Pro-American Lawyers Ask Judges to Block ‘Deep State’ Cheap Labor Pipeline…
Pro-American lawyers are pressuring federal appeals court judges to kill a covert legal claim used by government officials to sneak at least two million salary-cutting foreign workers into U.S. workplaces. The three judges at the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit have three broad options when interpreting section 1324a of the immigration […]
13,000 People Are Waiting at Mexican Border to Claim Asylum…
Thousands of foreign nationals are waiting south of the U.S.-Mexico border to claim asylum. The backlog is a direct result of the Trump administration’s efforts to clamp down on burgeoning asylum claims. Approximately 13,000 people are on waiting lists to claim asylum in the U.S., an Associated Press investigation found. The AP determined the amount […]
U.S. Security Experts Raise Questions About China’s Fentanyl Promise…
China has pledged to stem a flood of the synthetic opioid fentanyl onto America’s streets, where it kills thousands of people a month, but U.S. security experts are skeptical about whether Beijing is willing, or even able, to follow through. Ten current and former U.S. officials, congressional sources and China and trade experts told Reuters […]
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