That is why I am directing my administration to work closely with Congress and our allies to address the deal’s many serious flaws so that the Iranian regime can never threaten the world with nuclear weapons. These include the deal’s sunset clauses that, in just a few years, will eliminate key restrictions on Iran’s nuclear […]
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First Recording Emerges of High-Pitched ‘Sonic Weapon’ Linked to Attacks on U.S. Embassy Workers in Cuba…
The first public recording of high-pitched, cricket-like sounds out of Havana could be linked to the attacks on U.S. Embassy workers, according to a new report. The recording, first released by the Associated Press on Thursday, is reportedly one of several from Havana that first led investigators to believe a sonic weapon was involved. Of […]
Pakistan Secures Release of American Family Held Hostage for 5 Years…
The government of Pakistan, under pressure from President Trump to do more against Islamic terrorism, secured the release of an American mother and her family after five years captivity at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband, and three children, including a very young child, were freed from control of the al-Qaeda-linked […]
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Why North Korea Wants Nuke Deterrence by Nicolas J. S. Davies…
The Western media has been awash in speculation as to why, about a year ago, North Korea’s “crazy” leadership suddenly launched a crash program to vastly improve its ballistic missile capabilities. That question has now been answered. In September 2016, North Korean cyber-defense forces hacked into South Korean military computers and downloaded 235 gigabytes of […]
FULL LETTER: Former West Point Professor’s Letter Exposes Corruption, Cheating and Failing Standard…
The following letter was written by retired LTC Robert M. Heffington as an open letter. Heffington was an assistant professor at West Point for several years, until this past August. The letter has been circulating for a few days in private among the military. Heffington confirmed to American Military News on Wednesday that he did […]
K-9 Medal of Courage Award Bestowed on Five Military Dogs…
Five canines that served the U.S. military in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan were awarded the American Humane Lois Pope K-9 Medal of Courage in recognition of their vital service saving American lives. Representative Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) praised the dogs at a ceremony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the Washington Examiner reported. “By helping […]
“US Army unprepared to deal with Russia in Europe”…
OK. This article starts off like some Cold War fever dream once again awaiting the 8th Guards Army to barrel through the Fulda Gap on its way to the Rhine. However, this report is not another neocon fear piece about the growing Russian menace. It is a sober report commissioned by the 173rd Brigade commander […]
Inside the CIA’s Black Site Torture Room by Larry Siems…
There were 20 cells inside the prison, each a stand-alone concrete box. In 16, prisoners were shackled to a metal ring in the wall. In four, designed for sleep deprivation, they stood chained by the wrists to an overhead bar. Those in the regular cells had a plastic bucket; those in sleep deprivation wore diapers. […]
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Memo Shows Obama Team Obstructed Deportation Cases…
A newly obtained memo shows that a top Obama legal office interfered with key immigration investigators in deportation cases, bolstering a congressional charge that the government was losing half of those legal cases on purpose, according to an immigration reform group. The 2013 memo from former Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy legal adviser Riah Ramlogan […]
Navy Fires USS McCain Senior Leaders After ‘Preventable’ Deadly Collision…
The Navy has relieved two USS John S. McCain senior officers in connection with a “preventable” deadly collision involving the destroyer and a civilian merchant vessel near Singapore. Seventh Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Phil Sawyer relieved the McCain’s commanding officer, Cmdr. Alfredo Sanchez, and executive officer, Cmdr. Jessie Sanchez, due to a loss of confidence […]
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: VA Paid Millions in Settlements to Problem Employees…
Behind the walls of the nation’s oldest veterans’ hospital, the reports were grim. Medical experts from the Department of Veterans Affairs blamed one botched surgery after another on a lone podiatrist. They said Thomas Franchini drilled the wrong screw into the bone of one veteran. He severed a critical tendon in another. He cut into […]
ICE Director Signals ‘At-Large Arrests’ Over New California Sanctuary Law…
The country’s top immigration cop said Friday his agents “will have no choice” but to conduct workplace and neighborhood immigration raids in light of California’s new sanctuary law. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas Homan said in a statement Friday that California Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) decision to sign the law, SB54, would […]
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ISIS Sympathizers Planned to ‘Create the Next 9/11’ With Attacks on Concerts, Subways & Times Square
Three men living outside the U.S. planned to attack concerts, Times Square and crowded subways in 2016 in an ISIS-inspired attack that one of the suspects said he hoped would be “the next 9/11,” authorities announced on Friday afternoon. The FBI said the three men — Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a 19-year-old Canadian citizen; Talha Haroon, […]
One Day After Historic Saudi-Russian Summit, U.S. Suspends Military Exercises With “Arab Allies”…
Russia no longer even has to lift a finger (or buy a few thousands dollars worth of Facebook ads) to steal influence from the US in key geopolitical hotspots: the US can do so on its own. According to the WSJ, the Pentagon halted military exercises with Gulf allies in a symbolic rebuke to countries […]
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Iran Signals Willingness to Talk About Ballistic Missile…
Iran is signaling that it is open to diplomatic talks on its ballistic missile arsenal after increasing threats by President Trump to pull out of the nuclear deal that the Obama administration and other world powers reached with the Islamic republic in 2015. Publicly, Tehran has vowed to ramp up its ballistic missile tests in […]
Bodyguard Details Last Moments of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi…
“As bodyguard to U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Wickland was the last person to see him and an aide alive as they tried to escape a burning mission villa,” the Washington Post reports. “Wickland also was at the wheel of an armored car evacuating U.S. security personnel that ran a gauntlet of hostile fire to […]
Remember That August U.S. Delay of $300 Million in Aid To Egypt?…
The Backstory Here Is Important – Those who travel the deep weeds of politics might remember back in August when the Trump administration delayed $300 million in economic aid to Egypt. The U.S. media made quite a fuss about it and claimed U.S. Egyptian relations would be stressed. Reminder…
U.S. to Expel 15 Cuban Embassy Staffers…
The U.S. government has ordered 15 staff members from Cuba’s embassy in Washington to leave the country, a State Department official said Tuesday, a step intended to bring diplomatic operations between the two nations into parity after the U.S. cut its staff in Havana last week. The official said the expulsion of Cuban diplomats should […]
Syria Demands Immediate International Action Against U.S.-Led Coalition…
The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry addressed on Thursday new letters to the chiefs of the UN and the international Security Council over the constantly repeated attacks of the US-led coalition against Syrian territory and civilians. The recent crime committed by the coalition, within a series of repeated attacks on civilians and infrastructure in Syria for […]
3,800 Gang Members Charged in Operation Spanning United States and Central America…
Senior law enforcement officials from the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras announced here today criminal charges against more than 3,800 MS-13 and 18th Street gang members in the United States and Central America in a coordinated law enforcement action known as Operation Regional Shield. The charges were announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General […]
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