It looks like the Iranian government wasn’t the only one hiding critical details about the aftermath of the Islamic Revolutionary regime’s ‘retaliatory strike’ from the public. According to several media reports, eleven US service members were flown out of Al Assad Air Base in Iraq and treated for concussion symptoms after Iran’s rocket attack targeting […]
Rouhani: Iran Working to Prevent War, Wants Dialogue…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Friday he wanted to avoid war after Iran and the U.S. appeared on the brink of direct military confrontation in early January for the second time in less than a year. Ahead of parliamentary elections on Feb. 21 – predicted to be a challenge for Rouhani’s camp – and amid […]
Senate Sends Mammoth $738BN Defense Bill to Trump’s Desk, Creating Space Force…
The U.S. Senate has joined the House of Representatives in passing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020, and it will now go to the White House where President Trump is expected to sign it into law. The Senate passed the massive $738 billion defense spending bill on Tuesday, which as we […]
Treating Pakistan as a Friend Was a Critical Error: U.S. Officials in Afghanistan Papers…
US officials in the Bush and Obama administrations believe the treatment of “Pakistan as a friend” in the country’s trillion-dollar 18-year-long Afghanistan war was a “critical error”, The Washington Post has revealed in its “secret history” of the conflict. On Monday, the American daily published US government papers in an extensive report, ‘The Afghanistan Papers’. […]
The Afghanistan Papers Show the Swamp at Its Worst…
On Monday, the Washington Post published its story on the Afghanistan papers: 2,000 pages of interview notes of those involved in the war effort. It details the widespread deception and futility that characterized the war in Afghanistan. SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, compiled these interviews and adjacent data into seven reports. SIGAR […]
The Afghanistan Papers – “the American people have constantly been lied to.”
A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. The documents were generated by a federal project […]
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 […]
Charges: Chinese Surveillance Goods Illegally Sold to U.S….
A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The fraud that prosecutors allege by Aventura Technologies Inc. raised “a grave concern” […]
U.S. Constructing Two New Bases in Syria’s Oil-Rich Region…
Turkey’s state-run media is reporting the United States is planning two new military bases in Syria’s oil-rich Deir ez-Zor province, which are currently under construction, after US special forces convoys were seen patrolling the area in the past days. Anadolu Agency, citing local sources, said the bases were under construction as evidenced by the influx […]
U.S. to Send ‘Mechanized Forces’ to Secure Syrian Oil Fields…
The U.S. military is planning to send some kind of mechanized force to help keep oil fields in eastern Syria from slipping into the hands of a resurgent ISIS as American troops withdraw from the region. But the plan to send armor to Syria could add extra manpower and logistical strains for U.S. forces in […]
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