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15,851 U.S. Service Members Have Died Since 2006. Here’s Why…

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Since 2006, 15,851 active-duty personnel and mobilized reservists have died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. But only 28 percent of those deaths came from going to war, a stark reminder of the danger service members face even away from the battlefield. The numbers come from a new report by the Congressional Research Service, […]

Afghan Drug Trade Thrives Despite Costly U.S. Counternarcotics Campaign…

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The drug trade in Afghanistan, which helps fund the insurgency and impedes reconstruction efforts, has grown stronger despite billions of dollars spent by the U.S. to fight it, a government watchdog said Thursday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, said in a report that the U.S. needed a new strategy to fight […]

U.S., Turkey Said to Reach Deal for Withdrawal of Kurdish Forces from Key Syrian Town…

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Turkey has announced a new agreement with the US which will involve the pullout of all Kurdish forces from the contested northern Syrian city of Manbij — something which the US State Department disputed as recently as Tuesday. But Reuters now reports, based on Turkey’s state-run Anadolu agency: Turkey and the United States have reached […]

Iran Hawks Are the New Iraq Hawks…

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Last week, while watching Benjamin Netanyahu unveil secret information that supposedly proved that Iran is deceiving the world about its nuclear-weapons program, I had a flashback. It was to February 5, 2003, when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell unveiled secret information that supposedly proved that Iraq was deceiving the world about its nuclear, chemical, and […]

REPORT: Series of ‘Deficiencies’ Led to Deadly Niger Ambush…

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The Defense Department on Thursday released its report on the investigation into the deadly Niger ambush that killed four U.S. soldiers in October 2017, and it found that a series of failures and “deficiencies” led to the event; the report did not assign individual, direct blame. Americans Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, […]

Congress Offers a Bipartisan Blank Check to Trump for War…

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It may be too late. The president of the United States is now a veritable autocrat in the realm of foreign policy. He has been since at least 1945, when the last congressionally declared war finally ended. Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen (among other places) were all […]

Comey Confirms: ‘There is a deep state in this sense…’

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Speaking to the crowd, Comey said: ‘There is a deep state in this sense. There is a collection of people, CIA, NSA, FBI in the United State military services who care passionately about getting it right, who care passionately about the values we try to talk about. ‘No matter how they vote or how they […]

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