Officials have confirmed that the U.S. military, despite vowing not to use depleted uranium weapons on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, fired thousands of rounds of the such munitions during two high-profile raids on oil trucks in Islamic State-controlled Syria in late 2015. The air assaults mark the first confirmed use of this armament […]
Obama Administration Used Depleted Uranium in Syria…
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…
Neocons Pushing Hard for a Lucrative New Cold War…
The New Cold War promises untold riches for the Military-Industrial Complex, causing hawks inside the Obama administration to push for more hostilities with Russia…
Ash Carter Says U.S. Needs Better PTSD Treatment After Ft. Lauderdale Shooting (VIDEO)…
Obama Awards Himself A “Distinguished Public Service Medal”…
After eight years of magnanimous humility, servility and deferential governance toward his political opposition, ‘President selfless‘ awards himself the Medal of Distinguished Public Service. Thus, President Obama officially declares himself the greatest public servant during his own tenure…
How The Military Excluded The White House From International Syria Negotiations…
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…
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…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter Implies Russia and China Are “Enemies” of America. What Next?…
So: what has changed for him in all of that time? The weapons are more advanced; he expressed pride in that. And the former Warsaw Pact nations that were allied with the U.S.S.R. surrounding Russia, have increasingly joined NATO and become Russia’s enemies…