A decorated retired Air Force officer who witnessed one of the most deadly attacks on Navy SEALs in U.S. history is breaking her silence, saying the government covered up evidence detailing that the 2011 downing of a Chinook helicopter gunship that killed 38 fighters in Afghanistan could have been prevented had it not been for […]
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The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?…
Let’s say you know someone who wears funny blue suits and doesn’t share your views on politics. So you decide to stick this person in a cage and put him on a diet of bread and water until he agrees to change his wardrobe and adjust his thinking. And when he sits quietly on the […]
Libya – More War And Reconciliation…
The West retains it’s out of touch Libyan policies when in Luca, Italy last week the G7 ‘warned and commanded’ that the fractious warring Libyan parties ‘must’ work with the dying UN appointed and recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), situated only in a small naval base in Tripoli and its so called Presidency Council […]
As Trump Warned North Korea, His ‘Armada’ Was Headed Toward Australia…
When U.S. President Donald Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an “armada” as a warning to North Korea, the aircraft carrier strike group he spoke of was still far from the Korean peninsula, and headed in the opposite direction. It was even farther away over the weekend, moving through the Sunda Strait […]
The Nerve Agent Attack that Did Not Occur: Analysis of the Times and Locations of Critical Events in the Alleged Nerve Agent Attack Syria…
Analysis using weather data from the time of the attack shows that a small hamlet about 300 m to the east southeast of the crater could be the only location affected by the alleged nerve agent release. The hamlet is separated from the alleged release site (a crater) by an open field. The winds at […]
U.S., Aussie Advisors Caught in Islamic State Chemical Attack in Mosul…
The Iraqi unit targeted on Sunday in a chemical weapons attack in Mosul was hosting embedded foreign military specialists, according to officials and media reports. American and Australian troops were unharmed by the toxic agent used by Islamic State. The attack in western Mosul was the second in two days. According to CBS News, 25 […]
Lawsuit Warns $234B in Aid to Israel Violates U.S. Law Against Supporting Secret Nuclear States…
A lawsuit warns that U.S. aid to Israel violates a law meant to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, even as the United States prepares to increase the already massive Israeli aid program. Filed Aug. 8 by Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, or IRMEP, in the U.S. District Court for the […]
The Problem Is Washington, Not North Korea by Mike Whitney…
Washington has never made any effort to conceal its contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected the DPRK to starvation, prevented its government from accessing foreign capital and markets, […]
Russia, UN, U.S. for Trilateral Talks on Syria…
The representatives of Russia, the Unites States and the United Nations will meet in Geneva on April 24 for trilateral talks on Syria, a diplomatic source told Sputnik on Monday. Earlier in the day, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said that the trilateral meeting could take place in Geneva. “The meeting is scheduled for […]
The Fire of the Syrian War Is Spreading Following U.S. Tomahawk Deployment…
When President Donald Trump was elected, the world expected him to dedicate his attention to the US economy and avoid unnecessary involvement in wars. In point of fact, since day one (even before he was President) he has been “in bed” with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the American mainstream media who harshly […]
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U.S. Strikes ‘Kill More Than 100 Shabaab Terrorists’ in Somalia…
US aircraft attacked southern Somalia on Saturday morning, killing more than 100 Al-Shabaab militants, including 20 commanders, residents and officials have said. Witnesses said the planes targeted the militants’ hideouts in Wargaduud and El-Adde where many Kenyan soldiers were killed by the terrorists in January 2016. Among senior Shabaab commanders killed in the dawn attack…
Vet Amputee Who Carried Woman During Boston Marathon Has an Incredible Story…
A video of a veteran with a prosthetic leg carrying an American flag and a woman across the finish line during Monday’s Boston Marathon has gone viral, racking up more than 5 million views in the past 24 hours. Of course, the story behind the story is even more incredible. The veteran is retired Army […]
A Father Describes Saving His Daughter from U.S. Bombardment of Mosul…
On March 17, Ala’a Ali left his wife and 4-year-old daughter at the home of relatives in the al Jadida neighborhood of Mosul, and went home to wash before the morning call to prayer. Two minutes after he arrived home, a deafening explosion ripped through the neighborhood, engulfing the narrow street in black smoke. “I […]
Al-Qaeda Suicide Attack Kills 100+ Children, Women – Whodunit?…
Two smaller cities in the northern “rebel”-controlled Idleb governate, Al Foa and Kafriya, have been under “rebel” siege for over two years. Local government aligned forces are defending them. The civilian inhabitants are of Shia believe and seen by the sectarian Sunni “rebels” as unbelievers only worthy of death. The cities are supplied by airdrops […]
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A Critique of ‘False and Misleading’ White House Claims about Syria’s Use of Lethal Gas by Theodore A. Postol…
This is my third report assessing the White House intelligence Report (WHR) of April 11. My first report was titled “A Quick Turnaround Assessment of the White House Intelligence Report Issued on April 11, 2017 About the Nerve Agent Attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria,” and my second report was an addendum to the first report. […]
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Islamic State Launched Gas Attack in Liberated Mosul…
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has fired a rocket loaded with chlorine in western Mosul, Iraq, hitting several soldiers with the gas, according to an AP report. The attack occurred in an area of western Mosul that has been recently liberated from the militants by US-backed Iraqi forces, AP reported on Saturday, citing an Iraqi […]
U.S. Led-Coalition: ‘Nothing Prepared Us for That Level of Civilian Casualties’…
At least 1,782 civilians were allegedly killed by coalition airstrikes in March alone, according to an analysis by Airwars — numbers the research organization says are comparable to the deadliest period of Russia’s 2016 air campaign in Syria. Of this number, Airwars assesses between 477 and 1,216 civilian casualties to be likely, meaning the organization […]
Americans Are No Different Than Germans Were (and Are) by Eric Zuesse…
Daniel Goldhagen blamed the Holocaust on «the Germans» (by which he meant the German people), and said that they perpetrated the Holocaust because they positively enjoyed murdering «the Jews». But, as has long been well understood by historians (except when they fail to point to it as being a disproof of Goldhagen’s bigoted and indefensible […]
North Korean Test Missile Explodes on Launch…
A North Korean missile exploded during launch Sunday, U.S. and South Korean officials said, a high-profile failure that comes as a powerful U.S. aircraft supercarrier approaches the Korean Peninsula in a show of force. It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of missile was test-fired from the east coast city of Sinpo. But the failure will […]
Kim Jong Il: ‘We will pulverize the headquarters of evil and ruthlessly ravage US troops’…
North Korea upped its warmongering with Donald Trump today in a series of menacing boasts threatening to ‘ravage’ US troops amid fears the two countries are heading for war. The secretive state vowed to ‘pulverize’ US bases and South Korean capital Seoul if it was threatened by the US military, which is carrying out drills […]
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