The Department of Veterans Affairs released an alarming report Friday showing that at least 60,000 veterans died by suicide between 2008 and 2017, with little sign that the crisis is abating despite suicide prevention being the VA’s top priority. Although the total population of veterans declined by 18% during that span of years, more than […]
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Team Iran by Lee Smith…
It wouldn’t seem hard for anyone remotely interested in the fate of the planet to draw at least one clear lesson from last Saturday’s Iranian strikes on Saudi Arabia: There is no way that the regime that casually took 50% of Saudi oil production offline can ever be allowed to get anywhere near possessing a […]
STUDY: 14 Million Illegal Immigrants in United States Cost Americans $132 Billion a Year…
A new study says that 14 million illegal immigrants currently reside in the United States and the cost to taxpayers is some $132 billion a year. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said that the population of illegal aliens in the country has risen about two million in two years and now stands at […]
U.S. Drone Strike Kills 30 Civilians in Afghanistan…
A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labor in the fields, officials said on Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night also injured 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and laborers who had just finished collecting pine nuts at mountainous […]
PENTAGON SENDING ‘DEFENSIVE’ TROOPS AND MISSILES TO SAUDI ARABIA…
The Pentagon is sending additional troops and missiles to Saudi Arabia in response to Iran’s attack on Saudi oil facilities last weekend. “The president has approved the deployment of U.S. forces, which are primarily defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and missile defense,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in a surprise briefing Friday […]
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Here’s the Document the White House, Barr Are Using to Push Gun Control on Republicans…
The White House and Department of Justice (DOJ) have met with multiple Republican senators and congressmen to shop legislation on expanding background checks consistent with the Manchin-Toomey bill, sources familiar with the effort told the Daily Caller. The Daily Caller obtained a copy of an idea sheet circulating among Republican members, which indicates that the […]
President Trump Tours New Border Wall Construction in San Diego Sector…
President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the media today while touring border wall construction in Otay Mesa, California. As a builder himself, the president outlined some of the more particular details of the construction project including the difference between compressive strength and tensile strength of 5,000/lb concrete. There is apparently some additional aspects to the […]
Pentagon: All Indications Show Iran in Some Way Responsible for Saudi Attacks…
All indications show that Iran is in some way responsible for the attacks on the Saudi Aramco oil facilities, Jonathan Rath Hoffman, the Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the Department of Defense, said on Thursday. “I will acknowledge that as of this time all the indications we have is that Iran is in some way responsible […]
President Trump Selects Robert O’Brien as National Security Advisor…
Robert C O’Brien is currently the State Department’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs. A founding partner of the Los Angeles-based law firm Larson O’Brien…People describe O’Brien as similar to his friend John Bolton without the virulent twitchy trigger finger. In his capacity as special envoy for hostage affairs, O’Brien wrote a letter to Swedish […]
UFO Videos Are Footage of Real ‘Unidentified’ Objects, U.S. Navy Acknowledges…
For the first time, the U.S. Navy has acknowledged the three UFO videos that were released by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge and published by the New York Times are of real “unidentified” objects. “The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified,” Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault, a […]
FBI Arrests Chinese Official for Visa Fraud…
The FBI has arrested a Chinese government official as part of China’s massive scheme to illegally obtain American technology by recruiting experts in high-tech fields. Zhongsan Liu was arrested after a lengthy investigation into his role in directing a Chinese government front group in New Jersey called the China Association for International Exchange of Personnel […]
DoD Identifies Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin as Green Beret Killed by Small Arms Fire…
The Defense Department has identified an Army Special Forces soldier killed in action Monday. Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin, 41, was killed in action by small arms fire during combat operations in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, Army officials announced Tuesday morning. Griffin, who was from Greenbrier, Tennessee, served as a Special Forces communications sergeant with […]
Over 100 Arrested in Ohio Human Trafficking, Child Sex Sting…
Reports said the sting, called “Operation 4th and Goal,” was announced by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Friday and took nearly 30 law enforcement agencies and social service organizations to execute. “Authorities went after human traffickers selling people for sex, men trying to buy sex and men trying to meet children online for sex,” […]
U.S. Targets Companies with Chinese Military Ties…
The Pentagon is compiling a list of companies with ties to the Chinese military as part of a stepped-up Trump administration effort to stop Beijing from obtaining sensitive technologies and protect US defence supply chains. The US defence department is trying to identify Chinese companies and organisations with direct and indirect relationships with the People’s […]
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‘HELL YES I’M GOING TO TAKE AMERICANS’ GUNS’…
2020 Democratic hopeful Beto O’Rourke was asked whether he would confiscate American’s guns during the ABC News Democratic debate Thursday, and he answered, “hell yes.” “Some of the stage have suggested a voluntary buy-back for guns in this country. You have said, ‘Americans who own AR-15s and AK-47s will have to sell them to the […]
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How the U.S. Shattered the Middle East…
emen is a nightmare, a catastrophe, a mess—and the United States is highly complicit in the whole disaster. Refueling Saudi aircraft in-flight, providing targeting intelligence to the kingdom and selling the requisite bombs that have been dropped for years now on Yemeni civilians places the 100,000-plus deaths, millions of refugees, and (still) starving children squarely […]
‘I Want To Kill!’ — The 7 Most Shocking Stories About Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz Revealed in New Book…
A new book co-written by Andrew Pollack, the father of a teenager killed during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School in February 2018, contains a number of shocking details about the shooter Nikolas Cruz and his erratic behavior in school. Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow was killed in the shooting, co-wrote the […]
OPINION: Where We Are Now in Afghanistan by Pat Lang…
A year or so after the US intervention in Afghanistan began in 2001 I perceived that there was a danger that US public and government opinion might begin to favor the idea of “nation building” in Afghanistan. From long experience in and study of the area of Islamicate civilization and its history it seemed clear […]
Supreme Court Green Lights Trump’s Asylum Restrictions to Take Effect…
In a major win for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court issued an order late Wednesday ending all injunctions that had blocked the White House’s ban on asylum for anyone trying to enter the U.S. by traveling through a third country, such as Mexico, without seeking protection there. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals – […]
NRA Sues San Francisco for Declaring It a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”…
The National Rifle Association filed suit against the city of San Francisco Monday after the city declared the gun rights group a “domestic terrorist organization.” The city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the resolution that was introduced six weeks ago after at least three people were shot and killed at a garlic festival in Gilroy, […]