There is no limit to the hubris driven hypocrisy of America’s stalwart neoconservatives. A recent Washington Post front page article entitled “‘Never Trump’ national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted” shares with the reader the heartbreak of those so-called GOP foreign policy experts who have apparently been ignored by the presidential transition…
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A Couple of Dem’s in Congress Want to Restrict Trump’s First Use of Nuclear Weapons…
Lawmakers introduced a bill in both houses of Congress Tuesday that would prevent the president from launching a nuclear first strike without a congressional declaration of war. A policy that was long debated — but never seriously pursued — during the Obama administration has now become anything other than abstract after the election of Donald […]
Rumor Has It James Comey Staying as F.B.I. Director…
The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, told his top agents from around the country that he had been asked by President Trump to stay on the job running the federal government’s top law enforcement agency, according to people familiar with the matter. A decision to retain Mr. Comey would spare the president another potentially bruising […]
Michigan Man Whose Drug Sentence Commuted By Obama Is Shot Dead…
A man whose drug-related prison sentence was commuted in November by President Barack Obama has been fatally shot at a federal halfway house in Michigan after two men with assault-style rifles sought him out, police said. Two men wearing masks went into Bannum Place in Saginaw on Monday night with plans to kill 31-year-old Damarlon […]
The US Navy: A History of Waste and Corruption…
The growth of US military power has rarely, if ever, been the result of legitimate concerns about defensive strategy, let alone about the national welfare. Instead, it’s more often a consequence of a waste, corruption, and imperial ambition that together have produced the modern military-industrial complex…
Trump Announces New “Missile Defense System” Against Iran and North Korea…
Only minutes after being sworn in to office, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will develop a “state of the art” missile defense system to protect Americans against attacks from North Korea and Iran. The announcement was posted minutes after the inauguration on the White House website…
How Clinton Defeat Derailed Syrian War by Gareth Porter…
A new coalition of US-based organizations is pushing for a more aggressive U.S. intervention against the Assad regime. But both the war in Syria and politics in the United States have shifted dramatically against this objective. When it was formed last July, the coalition hoped that a Hillary Clinton administration would pick up its proposals […]
US-Coalition Airstrikes Destroy ISIS Boats Fleeing from Eastern Mosul…
At least 90 watercrafts and three barges, carrying terrorists of the Islamic State (IS) group, were destroyed in airstrikes of the US-led coalition on the Tigris River in Mosul…
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First Drone Strike of Trump Admin Hits al Qaeda in Yemen…
The first drone strikes launched under the Trump administration over the weekend killed three alleged al Qaeda militants in Yemen, according to local security and tribal officials. The two Saturday strikes killed al Qaeda area field commander Abu Anis al-Abi along with two others…
More Details Emerge on Tulsi Gabbard, Dennis Kucinich’s Fact Finding Trip to Syria…
In a surprise revelation, U.S. Representative from Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard, has embarked upon an unannounced visit to Syria for a “fact-finding trip . . . to promote and work for peace.” Gabbard did not announce her trip publicly for obvious safety and security reasons…
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GTMO at the End of the Obama Administration: 31 Uncharged Detainees Remain…
With last week’s transfer of four more detainees to the UAE and Saudi Arabia, President Obama will leave office tomorrow with 31 uncharged individuals remaining detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, potentially for the duration of U.S. hostilities with al Qaeda. (Ten others have been charged in the military commissions system, of whom seven […]
John Brennan’s Destruction of the CIA by Larry Johnson…
Good riddance. John Brennan will be history at the CIA in less than 48 hours (47 hours and fifty minutes to be precise given my current time). But he leaves a legacy of incompetence and politicization that will be hard to eradicate. The CIA is lost. It no longer has a clear identify, mission or […]
Mattis Appoints His Senior Military Advisor and Chief of Staff…
Rear Adm. Craig Faller and retired Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney were appointed senior military adviser and chief of staff at the Pentagon, respectively, by Defense Secretary James Mattis on Monday….Mattis had actually begun his tenure Saturday…He spent four hours at the Pentagon on Saturday and met with Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint […]
U.S. Bombers Flew from Missouri and Killed 80 Islamic State Fighters in Libya…
U.S. warplanes struck Islamic State encampments in Libya overnight, killing more than 80 terrorists and destroying their makeshift training camps near Sirte, a town the group once dominated, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday. “These strikes were directed against some of [the Islamic State group’s] external plotters who were actively planning operations against our allies […]
Ukraine and the US: the Devious Plans of Two P’s…
Ukraine is currently in limbo: it has lost the guidance of its American mentors (due to Hillary Clinton’s failure in the US presidential elections), Europe is busy with its own problems, and the past year has not brought Kiev any closer to its dream of a visa-free regime. The EU Association Agreement, for which the […]
U.S. Defense Contractors Tell Investors Russian Threat Is Great for Business…
The escalating anti-Russian rhetoric in the U.S. presidential campaign comes in the midst of a major push by military contractors to position Moscow as a potent enemy that must be countered with a drastic increase in military spending by NATO countries…
FULL: Nikki Haley Senate Confirmation Hearing for UN Ambassador…
U.N. Ambassador Nominee Governor Nikki Haley Testifies at Confirmation Hearing…
Trump Reportedly Confirms Kushner to Serve as Mideast Peace Broker…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly confirmed that he intends to appoint his son-in-law Jared Kushner as a mediator who will try to broker a peace agreement in the Middle East. Trump made the confirmation, which he had mentioned as an option in the past, in an interview with The Times of London published on […]
Top NATO General Echoes Trump’s ‘Obsolete’ Criticism…
A top NATO general is conceding that parts of the military alliance need to be brought up to date following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that NATO is “obsolete.” Reacting to Trump’s criticism in an interview this week, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Denis Mercier said Tuesday, “We see that there is a need […]
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McCain Proposes Massive $5 Trillion, 5-Year Defense Budget; Blames “Flawed Obama Defense Strategy”…
Just weeks after it was revealed that the Pentagon attempted to bury a study, that it itself had actually commissioned, which revealed staggering financial waste on Department of Defense programs, John McCain has proposed a new military budget that would exceed Obama’s proposed spending by $430 billion over 5 years and total over $5 trillion, […]
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