On January 29th the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed reports that a Joint Special Operations mission was conducted in what is suspected of being a “capture operation of known high value targets (HVTs)” on a high level meeting of regional and senior level commanders of the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)…
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Career Spymaster Named Deputy CIA Director…
A seasoned spymaster with decades of experience both domestically and abroad is the new deputy director of the CIA, a pick that could work to heal President Donald Trump’s rift with the U.S. intelligence services. CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced Thursday that he has selected Gina Haspel as deputy director, noting her more than 30 […]
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Feds Bust Mexican Murder Suspect Wanted in Sanctuary City…
Federal officers busted a Mexican national at the border who is wanted by police in the sanctuary city of Austin, Texas. The murder suspect is on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list. Robert Francis Van Wisse, 51, a Mexican national, approached the international border at the Laredo Port of Entry when he was stopped […]
Ukraine – Coup Government Tries To Sabotage U.S.-Russia Rapprochement…
Fighting in east Ukraine has restarted. This is an attempt by “deep state” forces to prevent any rapprochement between the U.S. and Russia under the new Trump administration. The west-Ukrainian forces under command of the coup government of President Poroshenko started a large attack against the Russian supported Ukrainian self-defense forces in Donetsk and Lugansk […]
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U.S. Warns Iran Over Latest Ballistic Missile Test…
The Trump administration is warning Iran that its recent test of ballistic missile technology could violate international resolutions governing the nuclear agreement…Iran on Sunday again tested its ballistic missile technology, despite multiple warnings from the international community. Ballistic missiles could be armed with a nuclear payload and potentially reach America…
Navy SEAL Killed in Al-Qaida Raid Identified…
The name of the first U.S. servicemember killed in combat under the Trump administration was announced bythe Pentagon Monday. Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens, 36, of Peoria, Illinois., died after he was wounded during a nighttime raid on an al-Qaida-held village in southwestern Yemen on Saturday…
Rising Tensions in Kosovo Could Serve as Early Test of U.S.-Russia Relations…
Ethnic tensions are rising in Kosovo, setting the stage for an early test of U.S.-Russian relations under President Donald Trump in a Balkan country where U.S. troops keep the peace decades after a NATO air campaign ended Serb rule over the Albanian population. A 78-day U.S.-led bombing campaign in 1999 forced Serbia to give up […]
North Korea at the Top of the Agenda as Mattis Heads to Seoul…
Plans to deploy an American antimissile battery to South Korea and the growing North Korean threat will be at the top of James Mattis’s agenda this week when the new defense secretary visits South Korea and Japan on his first foreign trip. Mattis, a retired Marine general nicknamed “Mad Dog,” will meet with Han Min-koo, […]
Islamic State’s ‘Minister of War’ Trained by Blackwater Now Has U.S. Bounty on His Head…
One of the leading foreign fighters of the Islamic State, who is now called the “minister of war” for the militant group in Mosul, has previously been trained in the US by the private military company Blackwaters, according to the Iraqi intelligence sources. Gulmurad Khalimov, 41, replaced his predecessor Abu Umar Chichani as the group’s […]
President Trump Appoints New Acting Director Of ICE…
President Donald Trump appointed a new acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Monday night, choosing Thomas Homan, the man who previously was in charge of removals. Homan has led ICE’s efforts to identify, arrest, detain and remove illegal immigrant since 2013…
The Epochal Battle Taking Place for the Future of the New World Order…
Pointing to the new, doubly significant meaning of the term ‘Trump card’, political observer Dmitri Kulikov suggests that the global geopolitical game being played today should be seen not as a Zbigniew Brzezinski-style ‘grand chessboard’, but as a Russian card game called durak (‘fool’) where the object of the game is not to end up […]
Deep State vs. Donald Trump by Alastair Crooke… Excellent Read…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said it often: the door to co-operation (with the U.S.) “lies ajar.” He has said it repeatedly: that it was not Moscow in the first place that had withered – and then severed – the lines of communication with Washington. And Mr. Putin has been consistent in periodically easing the […]
Real Reason Why Obama Was Not as Eager as Trump to ‘Knock the Hell Out of Daesh’…
In the follow up to the phone conversation between Presidents Putin and Trump, where they agreed that a top priority in bilateral relations between Russia and the US is joining efforts in fighting their main threat, international terrorism, Russian political analyst Elena Suponina reviews why Barack Obama failed to pursue this agenda…
FedEx Driver Who Saved American Flag at Anti-U.S. Protest Just Learned His Fate…
FedEx worker Matt Uhrin was not about to stand for it. When a group of protesters in Iowa City, Iowa, were burning an American flag, he leapt to action, taking a fire extinguisher and his moxie with him to put out the flames…
Why Did Obama Free This Terrorist?…
On January 17, 2017, as one of the final acts of his presidency, Barack Obama commuted the sentence of 74-year-old Oscar Lopez Rivera, the Puerto Rican nationalist who had served 35 years of a 55-year conviction for the crime of “seditious conspiracy,” as well as attempted robbery, explosives and vehicle-theft charges. Thanks to Obama’s intercession, […]
Death of the Syrian ‘Moderate’ Fantasy by Jonathan Marshall…
The neoconservative and liberal interventionist case for arming Syria’s rebels lost its last vestige of credibility this week with the routing of Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in northwestern Syria. Washington think-tank warriors and editorial writers have long looked to the FSA as America’s natural allies in the Syrian conflict…
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Reinstate Lt. Col. Terry Lakin…Sign the Petition…
A White House petition was launched the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration to “reinstate Lt. Col. Terry Lakin into the U.S. Army with full rank, pay, benefits and pension immediately.” “Court-martialed, imprisoned, expelled from the Army and denied pay, pension and benefits,” declares the petition accurately, “Terry was merely following his officer’s oath and constitutional […]
Retired Army Dogs Meant for Veterans Given to Company that Tried to Sell Them to Foreign Countries…
Army Specialist Jake Carlberg and his dog Abby spent over a year sniffing out bombs in Afghanistan. They served with distinction, bonded, and saved lives. “He would always say that she was his best friend,” said Glenna Carlberg, Jake’s wife. “They searched for bombs for his company. … They found seven.” When they returned home, […]
Mattis Phones German Defense Chief, Underscoring Commitment to NATO…
Defense Secretary James Mattis spoke by phone to his German counterpart on Thursday, underscoring the importance of the defense relationship between the United States and Germany and their membership in NATO. The conversation was one of several the new defense secretary has had with counterparts from other countries this week, assuring allies of the U.S. […]
Here’s How and Why the U.S. has Been Helping ISIS Take Deir El-Zour in Syria…
The single fact which make the latest offensive by ISIS eastern Syria so frightening and serious is that the way for it was paved by the US-led “anti-ISIS” coalition. Before discussing this, let me repeat a point I made for The Duran previously, the truth of which as a Syrian in Syria who is an […]
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