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 […]
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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 […]
ICE Arrests Nearly 500 Immigrants in ‘Sanctuary Cities’…
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announced Thursday they had arrested nearly 500 people in a four-day operation targeting so-called “sanctuary cities.” The agency said it targeted individuals from across the country, in what it called “Operation Safe City,” arresting 101 individuals in Los Angeles and 107 in Philadelphia. Other areas targeted include New York […]
U.S. Yanks Staff in Cuba After Attacks on American Diplomats…
The State Department is yanking a significant portion of its personnel out of Cuba and warning U.S. travelers that the country is not safe to visit because of mysterious attacks on American diplomats that have permanently damaged their health, according to the Associated Press. The move effectively reverses many aspects of President Obama’s policy of […]
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Was the ‘target of a Taliban rocket attack’…
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was the intended target of a rocket attack near an Afghanistan airport on Wednesday, according to the Taliban. At least five civilians were wounded when six rockets were fired toward Kabul international airport in the Afghan capital after Mattis touched down. Mattis condemned the attack as a ‘criminal act by […]
FBI: Murder, Violent Crime Increased Significantly in 2016…
Murder and violent crime rates increased significantly in 2016, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation records released on Tuesday. The agency’s Crime in the United States report shows an increase of 3.4 percent in the violent crime rate from last year and a 8.2 percent increase in the murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate. It shows […]
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