The White House announced a contract for 90 F-35 jets from Lockheed Martin Corp. valued at as much as $8.2 billion, boasting of savings after President Donald Trump chided that the Pentagon’s costliest program was “out of control.” Based on the per-plane cost, the savings will be $728 million compared with the previous contract, according […]
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Asininity from McCain “Send Weapons to Ukraine”…
This bit of asininity just came in from McCain: Send Weapons to Ukraine. McCain also repeated idiotic comments on Russian interference in the US election. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is calling on President Trump to send lethal aid to Ukraine after attacks this week were blamed on Russia-backed rebels…
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Don’t Blame Trump for the Yemen Raid’s Outcome…
There’s more to the story, from special operators who chafed at Obama administration micromanagement to the unexpected well-prepared enemies who lay in wait. Blame for the Yemen raid going terribly wrong is now being placed squarely on the desk of the new president. Reports surfaced on Thursday night to say that President Trump had authorized […]
If Peace Is Our Goal, U.S. Foreign Policy Must Change. Gabbard Should Be Commended…
Over the last decade, U.S. policy in the Middle East has been an unmitigated failure. For this reason, I want to publicly commend Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) for her brave, though much maligned, trip to Syria. Status quo U.S. policy has cost innumerable lives, displaced millions, and shattered a more peaceful order across the globe. […]
Feinstein Asked Former Pentagon Chief to Give the War Court His Copy of CIA ‘Torture Report’…
As the clock ticked toward transfer of power, California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein made an 11th-hour plea to departing Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to send his rare copy of the so-called CIA “Torture Report” to the Guantánamo war court for safekeeping, a filing by the judge revealed this week…
Smuggling Migrants to Europe Now a Major Funding Source for Islamic State…
Islamist terror groups including Islamic State are now getting much of their revenue from smuggling migrants into Europe, Italy’s intelligence chief has said. Information gathered by intelligence agencies shows that criminal gangs in Africa who work to traffick migrants into Europe have developed “partnerships” with terrorist organisations in the Middle East including Islamic State…
DHS Secretary: Border Wall Begins In Few Months, Will Be Complete In Two Years…
In his first television interview as Homeland Security secretary, retired four-star Marine Gen. John F. Kelly told Fox News he wants the U.S.-Mexico border wall finished in two years – setting an ambitious schedule for the project ordered last week by President Trump…
Syria: Wrath of Euphrates, Phase III…
The US-led international coalition against ISIS provided its allies in Syria with armored vehicles, a spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said and a US colonel confirmed. “The armored vehicles and troop carriers had arrived four or five days ago”…
Seal Team 6 Likely Killed Yemen’s Top Terror Leader, UBL’s Counterpart, Qassim al-Rimi…
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 […]
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