The commander of U.S. Strategic Command said Tuesday that Washington cannot unilaterally disable North Korea’s nuclear program without the help of China, despite President Donald Trump’s earlier ultimatum that America would act alone if necessary. “Any solution to the North Korea problem has to involve China,” Gen. John Hyten testified before the Senate Armed Services […]
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McCain Furious at Rex Tillerson for Saying Assad Can Stay…
The six year Syrian proxy war to dethrone president Bashar al Assad quietly ended with a whimper yesterday when at a news conference in the Turkish capital, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested the end of Bashar Assad’s presidency is no longer a prerequisite for a way out of the Syrian crisis, in a dramatic […]
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Only 7 in 10 Air Force Planes Ready to Fly…
On March 22, as North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un prepared to test-launch a missile and tensions rose on the volatile Korean peninsula, a lone B-1B Lancer bomber took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and flew across the Pacific on a Continuous Bomber Presence sortie. It rendezvoused with Japanese F-15J Eagles for […]
The Pentagon Wants to Keep Ground Troops in Libya and Go On Offense in Somalia…
The U.S. military will keep an unspecified number of ground troops in Libya to help friendly forces further degrade the Islamic State faction there, and officials are seeking new leeway to target al Qaida loyalists in Somalia, the top commander overseeing operations in Africa said Friday. “We’re going to maintain a force that has the […]
From Soviet Archives: Rare Photos of McCain During Vietnam War Revealed…
Several images display prisoners of war, including US Senator John McCain. One photo shows McCain standing near a plane before an assault on a power plant in Hanoi. Another one depicts locals pulling McCain out of the Hanoi Lake. Another one was taken while he was examined by a Vietnamese doctor. The last one shows […]
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Major U-Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy: Tillerson — Assad Doesn’t Have to Go…
If there was a Nobel Prize for hypocrisy, Turkey Foreign Minister Mevut Cavusoglu just won it. Speaking along side American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Ankara, Cavusoglu said, “It is not good or realistic to work with a terrorist group while fighting another terrorist group”. The irony is that Turkey claims to be fighting […]
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U.S. Forces Block Syrian Army Advance in Preparation For Syria Partition…
The road to Raqqa is now blocked by U.S. forces and their allies. The chances that Raqqa (and the surrounding region) will be returned to Syria are now slim to none. Foreign armies and their proxies are sharpening their carving knives. U.S. Special Forces and Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters have just captured a “strategic […]
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Washington’s Sponsored State of “Great Kurdistan” To Be Created in Syria And Iraq
According to the documents at our disposal, the U.S. authorities and the Syrian Kurds reached an agreement past week on the boundaries of the Kurdish autonomy in the territory of Syria, which had been guaranteed to Kurds in case of capturing Raqqa and Al-Tabqah (34 miles to the West of Raqqa). This confirms the reports […]
200 More U.S. Boots on the Ground to ‘advise and assist’ in Mosul Offensive…
The U.S. military is sending an additional two companies of soldiers to Iraq to help Iraqi troops fighting to retake Mosul from ISIS, defense officials confirmed to ABC News. Two companies of soldiers is equal to between 200 to 300 soldiers. Additional members of the 82nd Airborne Division’s second combat brigade are deploying to Iraq […]
Somalia: Reported U.S. Covert Actions Under Bush Jr. and Obama…
The Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is the lead agency in the covert ‘war on terror’ in Somalia, although the CIA also has a strong regional presence. The US has been carrying out extensive covert military operations inside Somalia since 2001, as a major six-part investigation by the US Army Times recently revealed. Elite […]
The Airstrike in Mosul Was Potentially One of the Worst U.S. Led Civilian Bombings in 25 Years…
Even though Iraqi civil defense workers are still sorting through the rubble, the March 17 U.S. airstrike in West Mosul, if confirmed, could potentially rank among one of the most devastating attacks on civilians by American forces in more than two decades. Residents from the neighborhood where the strike occurred said that 137 civilians were […]
Is America’s War in Iraq, Syria and Libya Constitutional?…
In recent testimony before the Senate Judiciary hearing, I supported the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch, despite my disagreement with some of his opinions. I specifically noted that his textualist approach to statute and the Constitution is no vice in a federal judge. While I hold many liberal views, I also believe in a formalist […]
U.S. To Escalate Its Two Years War On Starving Yemen…
The picture shows yesterday’s rally in Sanaa,Yemen where up to 1 million people were condemning the war Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the U.S. have been waging on them for two years. Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post reported of the million strong rally. Both though reported widely […]
Top Al-Qaida Terrorist Was Once Freed From U.S. Custody In Afghanistan…
A specially designated al-Qaida terrorist based out of Kuwait was released from U.S. custody in Afghanistan in 2001, The Long War Journal reveals. The terrorist, Muhammad Hadi al-Anizi, was designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury March 14 for raising funds and arranging travel to Syria for would-be terrorists. The Treasury Department’s designation specifies […]
Guantánamo Judge Orders CIA Testimony on Destroyed ‘Black Site’ Videotapes…
A military judge ruled Tuesday that defense attorneys could call former CIA officials as witnesses in their bid to derail the death-penalty trial of the alleged USS Cole bombing plotter, who was waterboarded in the spy agency’s secret prison network, the Black Sites. The one-page ruling by Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the judge, authorized […]
That Was Fast: Signer of Anti-Trump Letter Withdraws from Pentagon Think Tank…
Patrick Cronin, a liberal Republican China hand who signed a letter denouncing President Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, on Friday withdrew from taking a plum position as director of a Pentagon-funded think tank in Hawaii.
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Someone Stole a Humvee from the Army and Parked it in a Residential Garage…
A Ohio National Guard U.S. Army humvee stolen from the units base armory Tuesday was recovered in a vacant house’s garage Friday, the Associated Press reports. The humvee was stolen overnight by thieves who cut a chain link fence and somehow breached the vehicles locking mechanisms. Police and local authorities heavily publicized the theft, which […]
More Than 200 Dead in Suspected U.S. Airstrike That Hits Civilians in Mosul…
The U.S. military is investigating whether it was responsible for a bombing raid in the Iraqi city of Mosul that killed scores of civilians, making it the most deadly among Iraqi residents since the battle against the militant group Islamic State began more than two years ago. Col. Joseph Scrocca, a U.S. spokesman based in […]
Sec of State Tillerson’s Remarks to the Global Coalition Working to Defeat Islamic State (VIDEO)…
“The flow of foreign terrorist fighters into Syria and Iraq is down 90 percent over the past year. It is harder for terrorists to get in, and more importantly, harder for them to get out to threaten our homelands. Turkey has pushed ISIS off the Turkey-Syria border through Operation Euphrates Shield. This entire border is […]
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Continuity of Agenda: Thousands of U.S. Troops Being Sent to Combat in Syria?…
The US has been raining hellfire missiles, cluster bombs, depleted uranium and drone strikes on the Middle East for the past 15+ years… And how are things? Look around. Afghanistan is now called our longest war. Last year the Pentagon got caught being dishonest by omission about how many troops were in Iraq, then announced […]
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