It is high time to expose the whys and wherefores of the almost-successful attempt to mousetrap President Barack Obama into an open attack on Syria three years ago. Little-known and still less appreciated is the last-minute intervention of Russian President Vladimir Putin as deus ex machina rescuing Obama from the corner into which he had […]
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GOP Rep: Army Engaged in ‘Retaliatory Pursuit’ of Former Green Beret…
A Republican congressman says that Army investigators have misinformed service leaders about a renewed probe into the 2010 death of a suspected Taliban bomb maker in Afghanistan as part of their “retaliatory pursuit” of a former Special Forces officer…
U.S. Air Force Again Bombs Iraqi Forces in Mosul, Kills 90 Servicemen…
200 More Special Ops Heading to Syria…
The T-Room here: Again, I ask, why isn’t any in official Washington questioning this and past deployments of Special Ops to Syria. The 2001 Authorization for War does not say anything about attacking a sovereign nation…only terrorist organizations who pose a threat to the U.S. and its allies. That’s it!
The Top 10 Leading Causes of Death in the U.S….
Last year Case and another researcher sounded the alarm about a surprising increase in mortality rates for white middle-aged Americans – thanks to a phenomenon poignantly referred to as the “diseases of despair” – overdoses, alcoholism and suicide. The new numbers point to…
Watch Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Discsus Bi-Partisan Legislation to Stop Arming Terrorists w/Jake Tapper…
Tapper: “Do you agree with Donald Trump’s vision of ‘America First’ when it comes to foreign policy?” Gabbard: “I’m glad to hear him talking about ending our countries interventionist regime change war policies…We need to stop the destruction that’s been caused by our country”…
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Obama Grants Waiver for Military Support of Foreign Fighters (aka Hired Mercenaries) in Syria…
President Barack Obama has ordered a waiver of restrictions on military aid for foreign forces and others in Syria, deeming it “essential to the national security interests” of the US to allow exceptions from provisions in the four-decades-old Arms Export Control Act…
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The ‘Mistaken’ U.S. Airstrike on Syrian Troops by Gareth Porter…
The summary report on an investigation into U.S. and allied air strikes on Syrian government troops has revealed irregularities in decision-making consistent with a deliberate targeting of Syrian forces. The report, released by U.S. Central Command on Nov. 29, shows that…
U.S. to Establish Military Base in Israel…
The US army intends to use the Israeli coast as a military base against troops in nearby areas, including Russian forces in Syria, Al-Masdar News (AMN) reported the US National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) stipulating…
Sextortion: The U.S. Military’s Dirty Little Secret…
You’re scrolling through Facebook like any other day when a friend request pops up from a pretty girl. You accept, and she sends you a naughty picture. You send one back, just to be polite, or maybe because she asked nicely. Maybe you move the conversation onto Skype for a live show. But then…
New Rogue Anti-Russia Committee Created in “Intelligence” Act…
Section 501 of the Counter Intelligence Act creates a “Committee to Counter Active Measures by the Russian Federation to Exert Covert Influence Over Peoples and Governments.” This is followed by Section 502 which limits Russian and only Russian diplomats in the United States to traveling no more than 25 miles from their offices…
Pentagon Buries Evidence of $125B in Bureaucratic Waste…
The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget…
Three Years Later, Germany Admits Ramstein Used as Hub in U.S. Drone War…
The Federal Government always limited itself to simply quoting Barack Obama’s assurance that no drones were launched or controlled from Ramstein. This was a deliberate attempt to mislead, since neither the media nor we had made such a claim…
American Volunteer Reported Killed While Fighting IS in Syria…
An American volunteer fighting with a Kurdish militia was killed Monday in a battle against Islamic State fighters in northern Syria, Kurdish commanders in Syria said. The American was reported killed north of Raqqa, where U.S.-backed forces are fighting Islamic State as part of an offensive to free the city, the de-facto capital of Islamic […]
Senator Feinstein Asks President Obama To Declassify Senate’s CIA Torture Report…
Could President Obama actually declassify and release the full 6,800 page report on the massive failures of the CIA’s torture program from a decade ago? While it seems unlikely, Senator Dianne Feinstein is urging the President to release the document, fearing that the massive report may disappear into the memory hole soon…
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WikiLeaks Drops Yemen Files, Unmasks Washington’s Bloody Role…
Whistleblowing organization Wikileaks on Friday dropped yet another batch of files, this time detailing evidence of the United States arming, training and financing Yemeni forces in the build up to the current war…
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Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for C.I.A. Torture…
Nearly 15 years after the United States adopted a program to interrogate terrorism suspects using techniques now widely considered to be torture, no one involved in helping craft it has been held legally accountable. Even as President Obama acknowledged that the United States “tortured some folks,” …
A Declassified CIA Paper Shows How Close the U.S. and the Soviets Came to War in 1983…
One undated article settles one of the most controversial incidents of the Cold War’s often-panicked final decade: the 1983 “war scare” in which rhetoric of nearly unprecedented belligerence from Moscow may have been backed with a secret KGB protocol to remain on a state of alert nearly tantamount to a war-footing…
Gen Coe: U.S. Attack Killing 62 Syrian Soldiers in Deir ez-Zor ‘Regrettable Error’…
The September 17 airstrike that killed 62 and injured 100 Syrian soldiers in Deir ez-Zor was a result of an “unintentional, regrettable error,” the US Central Command has said. The mistake was “primarily based on human factors,” Brigadier-General Richard “Tex” Coe…
Obama Expands War with Al Qaeda to Include Shabab in Somalia…
The escalating American military engagement in Somalia has led the Obama administration to expand the legal scope of the war against Al Qaeda, a move that will strengthen President-elect Donald J. Trump’s authority to combat thousands of Islamist fighters in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation…
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