President Donald Trump said in an interview Tuesday that he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists over their role in drug and human trafficking. This is a huge development in the fight against the narco-trafficking organizations and will open up federal government resources to target the drug king pins that have amassed hundreds of […]
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NAVY ADMIRALS DISOBEYING ORDERS?…
Amid a crisis in traditional civilian-military relations, an unconventional commander in chief took to Twitter on Thursday to telegraph his displeasure with Navy leaders who tried to take a SEAL’s trident. “The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher’s Trident Pin,” President Donald J. Trump tweeted. “This case was handled […]
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Coast Guard Seizes Shocking $69 Million Worth of Cocaine from Drug-Running Sub…
The U.S. Coast Guard seized about $69 million worth of cocaine last month from a submarine-like craft in the Pacific Ocean, the service announced last week. Video shows the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane removing 5,000 pounds of cocaine from the semi-submersible vessel on Oct. 23 after a maritime patrol stopped […]
Navy’s Top SEAL Can Revoke Tridents. Here’s Why He’s Sending Gallagher to a Board Instead…
Enlisted Navy SEALs can have their hard-earned tridents revoked by superior officers, but Rear Adm. Collin Green wants other sailors to decide whether Chief Eddie Gallagher should retain the device. “Admiral Green felt very strongly about the board process,” a Navy official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Military.com. “He values the opinion […]
Smugglers Cut Hole in Border Wall Big Enough for a Truck to Drive Through…
Human smugglers cut a hole big enough to drive a truck through in the wall on the United States-Mexico border on Wednesday. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the smugglers drove a Dodge utility truck through the hole near Campo, California, about 80 kilometers east of San Diego, around 3:45pm on Wednesday. Federal […]
104 Arrested in Undercover Florida in Human Trafficking Operation…
More than 100 people were arrested during an undercover human-trafficking sting dubbed “Operation Trade Secrets II” in Tampa, Florida, authorities announced earlier this week. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) said in a Nov. 18 statement that of the 104 people arrested, 75 were men purchasing sex, and 28 were women who engaged in the […]
Documents May Be Breakthrough in Case of FBI Veteran Robert Levinson, Who Vanished in Iran…
Documents obtained years ago by the family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has been missing in Iran for more than a decade, may provide the most convincing evidence yet that he was arrested and held by Iranian intelligence agents after a new statement from the country recently came to light. Levinson, a veteran […]
House Passes 2 Hong Kong Bills in Support of Protests; To Be Sent To President for Approval…
The U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 20 passed two Hong Kong bills supporting the ongoing pro-democracy protests, sending them to the White House for the President to sign or veto. The House voted 417 to 1 for the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which unanimously passed the Senate a day earlier. The […]
DOJ Inspector General Finds ‘Numerous Issues’ with FBI Management of Secret Sources…
A newly released assessment from the Justice Department watchdog found “numerous issues” related to the FBI’s validation processes for secret sources. The audit, published Tuesday by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, comes amid intense scrutiny of the Justice Department’s and FBI’s actions during the 2016 election. Multiple confidential human sources were used in the counterintelligence investigation […]
ProPublica Attacks Mike Pence for Helping Christian Genocide Victims…
The left-leaning investigative journalism outlet ProPublica published an extremely troubling piece that implicitly criticized the Trump administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development for providing direct aid to Christian and Yazidi victims of genocide at the hands of the Islamic State. The article focuses on these vulnerable and already devastated communities, which were almost […]
U.S. Will No Longer View Israeli Settlements as Illegal, Pompeo Announces…
In what can be seen as a major boost to U.S.–Israel relations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States will no longer view Israeli settlements as illegal under international law. “The Trump administration is reversing the Obama administration’s approach towards Israeli settlements,” he said on Nov. 18 at the White House. “The […]
The Iran Cables…How Iran Wields Power in Iraq (Pts 1-5)…
In an unprecedented leak from one of the world’s most secretive regimes, an anonymous source provided 700 pages of Iranian intelligence reports to The Intercept, saying they wanted to “let the world know what Iran is doing in my country Iraq”…
Author of “Keep the Oil” Mission Already Distances Himself from its Foreseeable Failure…
The neo-conservatives who have duped President Trump into the “steal the oil” scheme in Syria are already distancing themselves from the plan. They know that it will end in failure. Yesterday the New York Times tried to insinuate that the U.S. military was behind the idea to steal Syria’s oil: “Days after President Trump’s abrupt […]
Analysis: War on Terror Has Killed Over 800k People and Cost $6.4 Trillion…
The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion according to a pair of reports published Wednesday by the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. “The numbers […]
Trump Grants Clemency to 2 Army Officers Accused of War Crimes, Restores Rank to Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher…
President Trump has granted clemency to two Army officers accused or convicted of war crimes and restored Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher to the rank of chief petty officer after he was docked a pay grade after being convicted of posing for a photo with a dead Islamic State (ISIS) fighter, the White House announced Friday. […]
U.S. Troops to Stay in Afghanistan Several More Years, Top General Says…
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain in the country “for several more years.” In an ABC interview broadcast on November 10, Milley noted that, after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the original reason U.S. forces […]
Iran Claims That Ex-FBI Agent Held Since 2007 Is a ‘Missing Person’…
President Donald Trump pressured Iran Sunday to release ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has been unaccounted for since 2007. Levinson went missing after conducting an unauthorized mission in the country. “If Iran is able to turn over the U.S. kidnapped former FBI Agent Robert A. Levinson, who has been missing in Iran for 12 years, […]
Suspects Arrested in LeBarón Massacre; FBI Joins Investigation…
Suspects have been arrested in connection with the massacre of nine members of the LeBarón family in Sonora last week, Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said on Monday, but declined to reveal the name of the criminal organization to which the alleged perpetrators belong. Federal authorities said last week that they believed that La Línea, a […]
President Trump Delivers Remarks During New York Veterans Day Parade – Video and Transcript…
Earlier today President Trump and First Lady Melania attended the New York City Veterans Day parade to honor our nations service members. President Donald J. Trump has made it a priority to support American veterans…Well, thank you very much, Stanley. And thank you for your tremendous support of this wonderful parade. Today, we come together […]
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‘There isn’t a city around that doesn’t celebrate’: How a Kansas Shoe Salesman Created a Holiday to Honor ALL Veterans…
For more than 50 years, Americans who served in the armed forces have been celebrated on Veterans Day thanks to a Kansas shoe salesman. Al King, a shoe store owner from Emporia, Kansas, spearheaded a 1953 campaign to establish Veterans Day on Armistice Day, commemorating the Nov. 11 end of World War I. While King […]