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DEA REPORT: Mexican Cartels Dominate U.S. Drug Market and No-One Can Challenge Them…

Mexican cartels are by far the biggest source of illegal drugs flooding the US market, the Drug Enforcement Agency said on Monday. In its annual report on drug trafficking, the DEA said of the Mexican criminal gangs: ‘No other group is currently positioned to challenge them.’ The report highlighted the strength of the Sinaloa cartel […]

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A Soldier’s Perspective on Bergdahl…

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who pleaded guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, will soon face sentencing, bringing him and the Army one step closer to legally resolving the chain of events that started when Sergeant Bergdahl walked away from his unit in Afghanistan in 2009. He was captured and held as […]

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The Air Force Says it Doesn’t Plan to Recall Retired Pilots to Fix Shortage…

The Air Force says it doesn’t plan to use new authority granted by an amended executive order to recall retired pilots to correct an ongoing personnel shortage. “The Air Force does not currently intend to recall retired pilots to address the pilot shortage,” Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said on Sunday. “We appreciate the authorities […]

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Bergdahl Judge Says He Can Be Fair Despite Trump’s Unnecessary Comments…

The military judge who will sentence Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl expressed concern Monday about a new comment made by President Donald Trump about the former Taliban captive, though he insisted the soldier’s punishment would not be influenced by the president. Trump recently referenced the disparaging comments about Bergdahl that he repeatedly delivered as a candidate […]

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Dunford Reveals New Details on Fatal Niger Ambush…

A 12-man American team left the Nigerien capital of Niamey on Oct. 3 with reconnaissance mission orders and spent the night off base, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford revealed in a briefing with Pentagon reporters Monday. Dunford revealed new details regarding an Oct. 4 Islamic State ambush of the 12-man U.S. […]

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U.S. Operators May Have Chased Terrorists Before Niger Ambush…

U.S. soldiers later killed in an ambush accompanying Nigerien security forces in early October may have given chase to Islamic State militants all the way to the Malian-Nigerien border, Nigerien military officials tell The New York Times. U.S. officials denied the Nigerien account to TheNYT, instead saying they became aware of ISIS militants presence in […]

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What the United States Did in Indonesia…

A trove of newly declassified diplomatic cables reveals a surprising degree of American involvement in a brutal anti-communist purge in Indonesia half-a-century ago. In Indonesia in October 1965, Suharto, a powerful Indonesian military leader, accused the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) of organizing a brutal coup attempt, following the kidnapping and murder of six high-ranking army […]

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Maryland Shooting Suspect Criminal Record: 42 Arrests, 15 Felony Convictions…

Breitbart News reported that Prince also allegedly shot a man in Wilmington, Delaware, about an hour and forty-five minutes after the shootings in Maryland. In addition to the 42 arrests and “15 felony convictions,” the Baltimore Sun reports that a “peace order complaint” shows Prince was “fired from a job at another granite company after […]

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Bigly Important – Secretary Rex Tillerson Discusses U.S. India Relationship…

Those who are following the Trump Doctrine, strategic U.S. geopolitical alliances, and the bigger part of the big picture for how President Trump and the administration are positioning the U.S. economy toward lessening ties with China, will note the significance of this speech and the content therein. The media will remain oblivious to it. The […]

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The New Cold War Is Already More Dangerous Than Was Its Predecessor by Stephen F. Cohen…

For several years, Cohen has argued that the new Cold War is more dangerous than its 45-year predecessor, which, it is often said, “we barely survived.” Here he updates and aggregates evidence for that argument. Meanwhile, many American participants and commentators continue to deny—for personal and political reasons —that there is a new Cold War. […]

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Iraq War Victims Allege Pharmaceutical Companies’ Bribery Led to U.S. Troop Deaths…

The families of dozens of U.S. troops killed or injured during the war in Iraq filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against several U.S. and European pharmaceutical and medical supply companies, alleging that the corporations knowingly financed the anti-American militia Mahdi Army through bribes and kickbacks to officials at a government ministry controlled by the group. […]

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Johnny Boy Doesn’t Like Nationalism. Rather, He Prefers “the world we have organized and led for three quarters of a century…” aka the World’s Cop…

“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of the Earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people […]

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Bergdahl Pleads Guilty to Desertion and Endangering His Comrades…

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured and held by the Taliban for five years after walking away from his post in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty Monday to desertion and endangering his comrades — charges that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. “I understand that leaving was against the law,” said […]

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America’s Key Diplomat on North Korea Details U.S. Policy…

The first thing you notice about America’s key diplomat on North Korea is that he has a nice smile and a quick wit, attributes that help lighten the mood in tense times. It’s not that the questions he faced from a group of American news editors this week were tougher than those others are asking […]

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U.S. House Introduces Bill to End Support for Saudi’s ‘Horrifying’ War in Yemen…

Citing human rights concerns, a bipartisan committee in the US House of Representatives has called for the US military to stop lending crucial support to the Saudi Arabian war in Yemen. The widely condemned Saudi intervention into the Yemeni Civil War has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, many of them […]

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Five Illegal Alien MS-13 Members Charged in Maryland Woman’s Murder…

Maryland authorities discovered the body of 21-year-old Jenni B, Rivera in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Annapolis, the Baltimore Sun reported. The victim was allegedly lured to her death and then beaten by Ervin Figueroa, Brenda Argueta, Ronald Mendez Sosa, Darvin Guerra-Zacarias, and Francisco Ramirez-Pena, all five members of the MS-13 who have […]

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My Plea to the Presidents of Russia and U.S. by Mikhail Gorbachev…

This December will mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between the Soviet Union and United States on the elimination of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles. This was the start of the process of radically cutting back nuclear arsenals, which was continued with the 1991 and 2010 strategic arms reduction treaties and the […]

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