The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet announced that the sailor thought to be lost at sea and found a week later hiding in the engine room of the USS Shiloh has now jumped overboard to avoid punishment for the previous incident. Petty Officer 3rd Class Peter Mims ran for the edge of the cruiser soon after […]
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MintPress Meets the Father of Iconic Aleppo Boy, Who Says Media Lied about His Son…
On the evening of Aug. 17, 2016, an event that has yet to be adequately explained occurred in the Qaterji District of the Syrian city of Aleppo. Four-year-old Omran Daqneesh, as well as his siblings and parents, were injured in media alleged was an attack by the Russians – or the Syrian military, depending on […]
4 F/A-18 Pilot Deaths Tied to Oxygen System Failures, Navy Reveals…
Four pilot deaths have been tied to oxygen system failures in the cockpits of F/A-18 Hornets, the Navy revealed Thursday in an in-depth review of oxygen problems plaguing its fighter and trainer jets. The review was launched in late March after instructor pilots at Navy training bases in Kingsville, Texas, Meridian, Miss., and Pensacola, Fla., […]
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DOJ Investigating Defense Contractor BoozAllen Hamilton for Overcharging the Feds…
The government is investigating consulting powerhouse BoozAllen Hamilton for possible civil and criminal violations in how the company bills for its services, the company announced Thursday. The Department of Justice is “conducting a civil and criminal investigation relating to certain elements of the Company’s cost accounting and indirect cost charging practices with the U.S. government,” […]
Dennis Rodman Gifts Trump’s ‘The Art of the Deal’ to North Korea…
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman on Thursday gave a top North Korean official a copy of President Trump’s book as a gift for hosting him there, according to AFP. Rodman reportedly gifted “The Art of the Deal” to North Korean Sports Minister Kim II Guk alongside several other unusual presents. Rodman also purportedly gave Kim […]
ICE Busts 39 MS-13 Members in New York Operation…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents teamed up in Operation Matador to arrest a total of 45 criminal gang members. In addition to the 39 MS-13 members, the operation led to the arrest of two Sureños, one member of the 18th Street Gang, one […]
UN: ‘Staggering’ Civilian Deaths in Raqqa Offensive…
Intensified coalition air strikes supporting an assault by US-backed rebel forces on Syria’s Raqqa are causing a “staggering loss of civilian life”, United Nations war crimes investigators have said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a US-led coalition, began attacking Raqqa a week ago to take it […]
Liars Lying About Nearly Everything by Philip Giraldi…
The United States has been using lies to go to war since 1846, when Americans who believed in manifest destiny sought to expand to the Pacific Ocean at the expense of Mexico, acquiring by force of arms California and what were to become the southwestern states. In 1898 the U.S. picked up the pieces of […]
The Danger of Islamic State Will Remain Even after Liberation of Syria and Iraq: Why?…
Despite the ongoing military operations in Syria and Iraq, which daily engage vast territories under the control of the “Islamic State” (ISIS), the latter has been able to hit distant targets in the Islamic world, in Europe and in Asia. Despite the loss of territories, the world is facing – and will continue so to […]
Syria Summary – The End of the War Is Now in Sight…
The most important change over the last days was the Syrian government forces move (red areas and arrows) in the south-east towards the Iraqi border. The original plan was to retrieve al-Tanf further south-west to secure the border crossing of the Damascus-Baghdad highway there. But al-Tanf was occupied by U.S., British and Norwegian invaders and […]
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U.S. Special Forces Assist Philippines Military to Fight Islamic State…
U.S. special forces are now assisting the Philippines military in the battle against Islamic State fighters after militants seized the city of Marawi. These forces have been deployed at the request of the Philippine government to help take Marawi back, to prevent the terror group from gaining a hold in the country. However, the U.S. […]
Russia Tells U.S. Not to Strike Syrian Pro-Government Forces Again…
Russia said on Saturday it had told the United States it was unacceptable for Washington to strike pro-government forces in Syria after the U.S. military carried out an air strike on pro-Assad militia last month. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov relayed the message to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a phone call on […]
Trump-Authorized Strike Obliterates Base in Somalia Used to Train Terrorists…
The U.S. has launched its first devastating air strike Sunday against al-Qaida-affiliated militants in Somalia under new authority granted by President Donald Trump. The Pentagon estimates the lethal strike destroyed a main al-Shabaab training base about 185 miles southwest of Mogadishu, killing eight militants in the process, Reuters reports. Trump authorized the Pentagon in March […]
NYT’s New Syria-Sarin Report Challenged by Robert Parry…
For U.S. mainstream journalists and government analysts, their erroneous “groupthinks” often have a shady accomplice called “confirmation bias,” that is, the expectation that some “enemy” must be guilty and thus the tendency to twist any fact in that direction. We have seen this pair contribute to fallacious reasoning more and more in recent years as […]
NEW Fast and Furious Secrets from Government Emails by Sharyl Attkisson…
Six years late, we have new insight into the government’s secretive Fast and Furious operation in which federal agents purposely let thousands of assault rifles and other weapons be trafficked from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels, where they were used in many murders and other crimes. A new House Oversight Committee report contains Department […]
Trump Administration Moves to Keep Full CIA ‘Torture’ Report Secret…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has begun returning to Congress copies of a voluminous 2014 report describing the CIA’s harsh detention and interrogation programs, U.S. officials said on Friday. The Trump administration’s move means it could be more difficult for the full, 6,700-page report to be made public, because documents held by Congress are exempt […]
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Report: Saudi Arabia Hid Knowledge of Saudi Students in U.S. Who Joined the Islamic State…
A newly released investigative report from the Institute for Gulf Affairs (IGA) based in Washington, D.C. details what they have referred to as “one of the biggest terrorist threats against the United States homeland.” The report “From American College Campuses to ISIS Camps: How Hundreds of Saudis Joined ISIS in the U.S.” describes how Saudi […]
Lavrov: Deconfliction Zones in Syria Announced Without Damascus’ Consent Illegitimate…
Russia considers the US-led coalition airstrike against pro-Damascus fighters in Syria an act of aggression and rejects the justification for the attack issued by the Pentagon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. The Tuesday airstrike near the town of At Tanf in eastern Syria “was an aggressive act, that violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity […]
U.S. Central Command Statement on ‘destroying additional pro-Syrian regime forces’ near At Tanf Garrison…
The Coalition destroyed additional pro-Syrian regime forces that advanced inside the well-established de-confliction zone in southern Syria, June 6. Despite previous warnings, pro-regime forces entered the agreed-upon de-confliction zone with a tank, artillery, anti-aircraft weapons, armed technical vehicles and more than 60 soldiers posing a threat to Coalition and partner forces based at the At […]
Meet Robert Ford, the US Diplomat Who Helped Send Syria to Hell in the Name of Democracy…
There are so many lies written about the Syria/Iraq/Turkey wars that after a few years of trying to sift through it, your expectations drop like a 2008 market graph. And they keep dropping. On a whiteboard you’d need to tape extra paper at the bottom. Hell, you’d need to dig a hole to the center […]
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