The Pentagon says it will send 3,750 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to put up another 150 miles of concertina wire and provide other support for Customs and Border Protection. The additions announced Sunday will bring the total number of active-duty troops on the border to 4,350. The announcement is in line with what […]
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Peter Jackson’s World War I Documentary Is a Civilizational Triumph…
We have all seen the herky-jerky film footage of World War I, the oddly uniformed soldiers mugging for the camera in grainy fast-motion, the horse-drawn artillery and trenches and gas masks all shrouded in colorless silence. It is a glimpse into some other world, as foreign to us as the wild west or the Civil […]
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Trump Suspends Arms Treaty to Focus on China, Russia Threats…
The Trump administration is pulling the plug on a decades-old nuclear arms treaty with Russia, lifting what it sees as unreasonable constraints on competing with a resurgent Russia and a more assertive China. The move announced Friday sets the stage for delicate talks with U.S. allies over potential new American missile deployments. In explaining his […]
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Federal Agents Discover ’60 FOOT TUNNEL’ Along U.S.-Mexico Border…
Border Patrol agents discovered a 60-foot-long tunnel still in progress this week at the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas. It’s located in Hidalgo, along roughly the same stretch of the border that President Donald Trump personally visited earlier in January. It would run under where Trump has proposed a wall go. Border Patrol contacted Othal […]
Conservatives Head to Texas to Try to Build Their Own Wall…
What started as an online fundraiser to provide President Donald Trump with donations for his southern border wall has morphed into a foundation whose members vow to build a wall themselves. The “We The People Will Build the Wall” campaign has surpassed $20 million since it was created in December by Air Force veteran and […]
Las Vegas Shooter Sought “Infamy” by Inflicting “Maximum Damage” According to FBI…
The deadliest shooting in US history was committed by a lone high-stakes gambler seeking to inflict “the maximum amount of damage” so that he could obtain “some form of infamy,” according to Aaron Rouse, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas office. The agency’s conclusion that 64-year-old Stephen Paddock acted alone and had […]
OPINION: A Plum Post for a Prominent Neocon Trump Foe…
On Friday, following the dramatic arrest of a prominent Trump supporter on charges of lying to Congress, President Trump gave one of the nation’s most sensitive national security and diplomatic posts to another controversial figure who already had been convicted of lying to Congress. Has the NeverTrump Republican echo chamber gone berserk over this irresponsible […]
DC Antifa Leader Arrested for Multiple Violent Felonies Out of a Job at Progressive Nonprofit After His Radical Ideology Was Exposed…
Washington, D.C. Antifa leader Joseph “Jose” Alcoff, also known as “Chepe,” has been out of a job working for a progressive nonprofit since December, his former employer told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday. Alcoff was arrested in Philadelphia on Jan. 10 and charged with multiple felonies, including aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and terroristic […]
Senior DOD Official: Three Migrant Caravans Headed to U.S., One with 12,000…
There are three migrant caravans headed to the United States’ southern border with Mexico, according to top Pentagon official John Rood. Rood testified to the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that one of the caravans contains over 12,000 migrants. “Current information shows that a caravan of over 12,000 people — there’s three that we […]
Active Duty Troops Sent to Border Instead of National Guard Because They Were ‘Available’…
A Pentagon official said Tuesday the Trump administration sent 5,900 active-duty members of the military instead of National Guard troops to the border in October because they were more readily available, after thousands of guardsmen had been deployed in April. “Active-duty military personnel were selected because the secretary of defense determined them to be the […]
China, Russia Top Threats to U.S. Intel Chief Warns…
China and Russia are moving to “compete more intensely” with the United States, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday. “China and Russia are more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s and the relationship is likely to strengthen in the coming year as some of their interests and […]
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7 Indicted for Attempting to Help a Cop Killer Flee to Mexico…
A federal grand jury indicted seven people on Thursday for attempting to help a man accused of murdering a Newman police officer flee to Mexico, according to the indictment that details each suspects alleged participation. On Dec. 26, Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 33, allegedly shot and killed Newman Police Officer Ronil Singh, 33, during a DUI […]
‘El Chapo’ Trial: A Three-Month Plunge Into the Bloody Ways of the Drug Trade…
Over the space of nearly three months, a New York jury has heard 54 witnesses deliver dramatic evidence against accused Mexican drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Former associates, ex-employees and a onetime mistress, most of them now inmates in American prisons, have drawn a blood-soaked picture of the Sinaloa cartel — of which El […]
Read the Scientific American Article the Government Deemed Too Dangerous to Publish…
In April 1950, the US federal government raided the offices of Scientific American Magazine to destroy every printed issue. “Three thousand copies already run off were burned, type was melted down, and every galley proof and script impounded.” Three years later, Fahrenheit 451 was published without knowledge of this incident. The banned magazine contained an […]
US Returns Asylum Seekers to Mexico…
The United States was expected to send a first group of 20 Central American asylum seekers back to Mexico through the border city of Tijuana on January 25, as part of President Donald Trump’s hardening of longstanding immigration policy. Under a policy dubbed the Migrant Protection Protocols, announced on December 20, the United States will […]
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The Illegal CIA Operation That Brought Us 9/11 by Robert Scheer…
Was it conspiracy or idiocy that led to the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to detect and prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon headquarters? That’s one of the questions at the heart of “The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror,” […]
Trump Administration Sanctions Venezuela’s State-Run Oil Company…
The Trump administration on Monday announced sanctions against Venezuela’s state-run oil monopoly, PDVSA, in a move to kill the main source of revenue for the regime of Nicolas Maduro, and empower opposition leader Juan Guaido. The sanctions divert the proceeds of U.S. purchases of Venezuelan oil to a blocked account, preventing the regime of Maduro […]
5 Police Officers Injured in Shooting…
Five police officers were struck by gunfire in Houston on Monday, police said. The condition of the officers was not immediately available. The officers were shot at a home in the southeast portion of the city, Fox 26 reported. The suspect in the shooting, according to Houston mayor Sylvester Turner, is “down.” “HPD responding to […]
Cemetery Invites Public to Funeral for Veteran Who Died Alone — Boy, Did They Show Up…
The Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery was unable to locate any family members to attend services for a Vietnam Air Force veteran named Joseph Walker — so staff members charged with organizing his funeral made a public plea for attendance. “We do not leave veterans behind,” they said. Local reporters helped to raise awareness — and […]
North Korea’s Kim Praises Trump as Both Raise Outlook for Talks…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lauded U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday and said he expects nuclear negotiations to advance “step-by-step,” state media said, a sign the regime anticipates sanctions relief as the two leaders plan a second meeting next month. Trump said on Twitter Thursday morning that he expects “another good meeting soon” and […]