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Syria: the facts on the ground
Post Date: 2017-08-20 07:26:02 by Tatarewicz
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Asia Times... Way beyond the al-Sadr-Saudi love fest, Mesopotamia and the Levant, in the post-Daesh era, are indeed unrecognizable compared to the state of play in the early 2010s. The facts on the ground in the Syrian war theater are stark. A girl looks out from a bullet-riddled bus in a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, Syria July 9, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir A girl looks out from a bullet-riddled bus in a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, Syria July 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Alaa Al-Faqir While the Beltway was blinded by regime change, Moscow swooped in and with a small expeditionary force turned the Middle East game upside down. While Russian jets fully ...
Its Time to Stop Supporting Our Troops: Thirty Million People Killed by U.S. Since the End of World War II
Post Date: 2017-08-16 06:15:09 by Tatarewicz
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PMF... First published in December 2015 With the 115 year old tradition of the annual Army-Navy football classic on Saturday [December 2015], the so called Americas game and rivalry for the ages is now once again upon us. This occasion never fails to pay reverent homage to Americas so called cream of the crop elitist military academies and always from the president to celebrities Americans give tribute to our armed forces. At this time we hear that familiar patriotic mantra support our troops mindlessly repeated. So it seems appropriate now to take a cold hard look to examine what it actually means to support our troops. As both a West Point graduate and critic of the American Empire, to ...
2 US soldiers killed, 5 more wounded in possible ISIS attack in Iraq
Post Date: 2017-08-14 06:25:43 by Tatarewicz
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RT Two American soldiers have been killed and five more wounded during an operation in northern Iraq. Though the military has said they were taking part in “combat operations,” initial reports said the deaths were not from “enemy contact.” Read more © Ali Arkady/VII/Redux Iraqi forces carrying out tortures in Mosul mostly supervised by US – security official The troops were taking part in operations against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). "The entire counter-ISIS Coalition sends our deepest condolences to these heroes' families, friends and teammates," Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force – ...
Russian- Syrian soldiers in AIRLANDING OPERATION BEHIND ISIS LINES
Post Date: 2017-08-13 01:28:41 by Tatarewicz
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LiveLeak... Few minutes ago the Syrian media released more info about the Tiger Forces landing operation behind ISIS lines in the province of Raqqah reported earlier today. According to the report, government troops led by Tiger Forces Commander Suheil al-Hassan were transported by 4 Mi-35 attack helicopters to the eastern Raqqah countryside 21km behind the front line and Khirbet Makman village, Al-Qadir town and Bir Rahum. The Russian Aerospace Forces supported the operation providing an air cover to the advancing government troops, according to the report. This was the first ever air landing operation conducted by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) during the ongoing war. The operation ...
Food For Thought - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
Post Date: 2017-08-12 17:26:15 by Horse
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"I therefore suggest that it would be quite possible for Russia to remain a spectator of the Austro-Serbian conflict without involving Europe in the most horrible war she ever witnessed. I think a direct understanding between your Government (Russia) and Vienna possible and desirable, and my Government is continuing its exercises to promote it. Of course military measures on the part of Russia would be looked upon by Austria as a calamity we both wish to avoid and jeopardize my position as mediator which I readily accepted on your appeal to my friendship and my help. "This is the end of negotiations with America, once and for all! If Wilson wants war, let him provoke it and then ...
China To North Korea: You Hit The U.S., We’re Not Helping You
Post Date: 2017-08-12 15:42:06 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Via Daily Wire: China has delivered an ultimatum to North Korea: If they hit the United States, they’re on their own. The state-run Global Times wrote in an editorial, “China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten US soil first and the US retaliates, China will stay neutral.” However, should the U.S. and South Korea strike North Korea first, then “China will prevent them from” implementing regime change in North Korea. The editorial continued:http://www.dailywire.com/news/19624/china-north-korea-you-hit-us-were-not-helping-aaron-bandler
Who’s In Charge of U.S. Nukes? Energy Secretary Rick Perry
Post Date: 2017-08-12 08:39:06 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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August 11, 201712:30 pm In 2012, then-Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) famously forgot the Department of Energy during a debate performance in which he was listing the four federal departments he would eliminate as president. Today, he is now in charge of the Department of Energy and America’s nuclear weapons stock pile. The Department of Energy spends roughly two-thirds of the department’s $30 billion budget on maintaining the United States’ nuclear stockpile. In December, Politico reported on how crucial the Department of Energy is in maintaining the country’s nuclear stockpile. Politico reported:“The agency’s chief responsibility isn’t energy policy: ...
North Korea and the Trump AdministrationÂ’s Foreign Policy Dysfunction
Post Date: 2017-08-10 22:37:18 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Tillerson’s attempts to reassure Americans following Trump’s incendiary rhetoric on North Korea do not seem very reassuring: “I think Americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days,” Mr. Tillerson said as his plane stopped to refuel in Guam, the very island that North Korea threatened to target. He added, “Nothing I have seen and nothing I know of would indicate that the situation has dramatically changed in the last 24 hours.” It is understandable that Tillerson wants to back away from the alarming rhetoric that the president used earlier this week, but this points to the key problem with the ...
Japan ready to protect Guam, defense minister says
Post Date: 2017-08-10 08:41:40 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Japan ready to protect Guam, defense minister saysIn the event of a North Korean nuclear attack on Guam, Japan’s new defense minister said Thursday that his country’s military could shoot down the missiles before they reach the U.S. territory.In such a scenario, Japan has the right to activate its Aegis destroyer missile defense system, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said during a session of the National Diet, Japan’s parliament.Any attack against Guam would be considered an existential threat to Japan, the defense minister said, also citing a mutual defense agreement with the United States.Japan lies only about 620 miles to the east of North Korea, which has conducted ...
McMaster: US Prepared to Launch ‘Preventative War’ Against North Korea
Post Date: 2017-08-07 04:23:43 by Ada
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Says It Doesn't Matter Much If North Korea's Missiles Actually Work Continuing to hype the threat posed by North Korea, despite their two ICBM tests being eventually conceded to both be failures, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster insisted that the US is fully prepared to launch a “preventative war” against North Korea, to prevent them threatening the US. The threat is with heavily fictionalized versions of North Korea’s missile program, but McMaster appeared undeterred about the war, saying he wasn’t going to confirm if North Korea really had missiles that could reach the US, before incredibly adding “I mean how much does that matter?” One ...
Damascus: Syrian Army Equipped with Modern Anti-Aircraft System
Post Date: 2017-08-07 02:42:35 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A Russian media outlet reported on Sunday that the Syrian Army's anti-aircraft units have been recently equipped with a modern system that has reinvigorated security of Damascus' airspace. The Arabic-language website of Sputnik reported that the Syrian army has been equipped with a modern anti-aircraft system known as Virba shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles to target enemy flying objects in low altitude in Damascus. The website went on to say that the Virba system is equipped with an automatic control system that can identify flying objects and specify their flight path and altitude. A guided warhead working with ultra violet ray has been mounted on the ...
America Has No Enemies
Post Date: 2017-08-06 10:08:45 by Ada
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America as a people has no enemies, none: not North Korea, not Iran, not Russia and not China. Our government says these are enemies, but they are not. Their forces are not bent on attacking us. They are not preparing to attack us, anymore than Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen were preparing to attack us. None of these countries began a war against us; but in one way or another the government claimed to see enemies and inserted our country into new battles and wars in these places. We must stop supporting the government when it invokes “national security” in situations where national security is not anywhere near being at stake. We should stop supporting our ...
US Generals Want to Extend Our Longest War
Post Date: 2017-08-05 08:04:30 by Ada
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Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. The president has many faults and is a lousy judge of character. But he was absolutely right to read the riot act to the military brass for daring to ask for a very large troop and budget increase for the stalemated Afghan War that has cost $1 trillion to date. Of course, the unfortunate generals are not really to blame. They have been forced by the last three presidents to fight a pointless war at the top of the world that lacks any strategy, reason or purpose – and with limited forces. But they ...
The Most Underreported World Stories So Far This Year
Post Date: 2017-08-04 08:22:45 by Ada
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Watch the various television and cable news shows, and one will be exposed to multiple reports of–the exact same story. Day after day, night after night: the national mainstream news media regurgitates the same news stories to the American people. It’s the same song sung by a different singer; but it’s the same song. If you don’t believe that, start channel surfing the newscasts instead of watching just one network. You will hear the same stories repeated over and over again by all of the different newscasters. Wake up, folks! You are being programmed and propagandized. I have repeatedly said: the real problem with America’s news media (and churches) is not what ...
White House Looks at Afghanistan Pullout as an Option
Post Date: 2017-08-01 16:54:40 by Ada
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Military Objects to Proposed Pullout as Not Meeting War Goals After months of the Pentagon failing to sell a concrete plan of escalation to the White House, officials now say that the administration is considering getting back on track with a drawdown headed for a full pullout from the country after 16 years. This is happening for the same reason the Pentagon hasn’t been able to sell the escalations, that a number of officials are unconvinced that the escalation is going to accomplish anything, and that they don’t think there’s a clear strategy for victory. The Pentagon was more or less uniform in arguing escalations, albeit of varying sizes, and are said to be objecting ...
Lindsey Graham: Trump is prepared to strike North Korea
Post Date: 2017-08-01 10:42:41 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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by Anna Giaritelli | Aug 1, 2017Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Tuesday that President Trump has indicated to him that the administration is prepared to strike North Korea to prevent an attack against the U.S."There is a military option to destroy North Korea's program and North Korea itself," Graham said on NBC about potential plans to respond to North Korea's increasingly offensive posture. "If there's going to be a war to stop him [Kim Jong Un], it will be over there. If thousands die, they're going to die over there, they're not going to die here and he's [Trump] told me that to my ...
America at war since 9/11 Reality or reality TV?
Post Date: 2017-08-01 06:50:12 by Tatarewicz
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Le Monde diplomatique The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, U.N. panel says.” “Pentagon wants to declare more parts of world as temporary battlefields.” “The U.S. was supposed to leave Afghanistan by 2017. Now it might take decades.” There are so many wars and rumors of war involving our country these days that it starts to feel a little unreal, even for the most devoted of news watchers. And for many Americans, it’s long been that way. For them, the meaning of war is closer to reality TV than it is to reality. On a June day, you could, for instance, open the New York Times and read ...
Stratcom Worried by Slow Pace of U.S. Nuclear Modernization
Post Date: 2017-07-31 09:06:03 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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BY: Bill Gertz July 31, 2017Stratcom Worried by Slow Pace of U.S. Nuclear ModernizationThe commander in charge of American nuclear missiles, submarines, and bombers is concerned by the slow pace of modernizing aging U.S. weapons in the face of growing threats from China, Russia, and North Korea.Stratcom commander Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten also said information warfare—the use of information operations, cyber, space, and other capabilities—is emerging as a form of strategic warfare."Information warfare in the future is the key to military dominance and control," Hyten told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview."The military that figures out ...
US, allies prepared to use 'overwhelming force' in North Korea, general says
Post Date: 2017-07-30 06:10:53 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Published July 30, 2017 Fox News Published July 30, 2017Fox NewsUS and its allies fly bomber jets over Korean Peninsula to send messageThe U.S. and its allies are prepared to use “rapid, lethal and overwhelming force,” if necessary, against North Korea, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces warned Saturday night.The statement from Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, U.S. Pacific Air Forces commander, came after the militaries of the U.S., South Korea and Japan spent 10 hours conducting bomber-jet drills over the Korean Peninsula.“Diplomacy remains the lead,” he said. “However, we have a responsibility to our allies and our nation to showcase our unwavering ...
President Trump: The only America First Afghan policy is to get out of Afghanistan
Post Date: 2017-07-28 17:51:50 by Ada
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Just when you think that you have heard all of the asinine ideas possible about U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, out comes one that is so hideously ridiculous that you must assume the authors are demented and writing from a well-secured asylum. The quote below comes from an article about the future of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan that was in the USA Today Network on 14 July 2017. The article discusses several U.S. options in Afghanistan, but the one that takes the cake is the brainchild of two champions of the war in Iraq, who — as Tucker Carlson correctly said about Max Boot — can be relied on to propose ideas that will start unnecessary and always losing wars for the ...
US Military to Close S. Korea Bases -
Post Date: 2017-07-25 07:44:48 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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The U.S. military will close half of its bases in South Korea in the next 10 years under an agreement signed by the nations Friday, but will not reduce the number of American troops stationed here.A joint statement said the U.S. military will shut down 28 combat and support facilities and three training ranges, returning more than half the land currently occupied by U.S. forces to the South Korean government by 2011."There is no reduction in U.S. forces," Gen. Thomas A. Schwartz, commander of the U.S. Forces in South Korea, said after signing the agreement with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Dong-shin. "We will stay at our current strength level."Up to 12,000 of the ...
Assange: 'CIA Not Only Armed Syria's Insurgents--It Paid Their Salaries'
Post Date: 2017-07-23 07:57:44 by Ada
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Wikileaks' Julian Assange is continuing his attempt to "take down America any way he can" by accurately reporting the truth. Saturday on Twitter, Assange highlighted an article from Thursday where the Financial Times noted how many Syrian rebels are getting salaries from the CIA. Click for Full Text!
'Illegitimate coalition' must pay for destroying Syria – Damascus to UN
Post Date: 2017-07-22 04:26:27 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Syria wants the US and its allies to pay for the destruction of Syrian infrastructure and to bear legal responsibility for "illegitimately" bombing civilian targets, Damascus has told the UN, demanding that the American-led coalition strikes stop. Trends Syria war, US missiles strike Syria The Syrian "Government insists that these attacks must come to an end, and that the members of this illegitimate coalition must bear the political and legal responsibility for the destruction of infrastructure in the Syrian Arab Republic, including responsibility for compensation," the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations said in letters addressed ...
Unimpressed Trump Sends Pentagon Back to the Drawing Board on Afghanistan
Post Date: 2017-07-21 11:29:47 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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The meeting came as the Pentagon briefed lawmakers about plans to increase the U.S. military footprint in the country.President Trump demanded that his team go back to square one if necessary and create a realistic plan that ensures Afghanistan is ultimately able to stand on its own as a country, said the administration official, noting that the meeting served as a sort of wake up call for those involved in developing the strategy.It appears that besides the Pentagon, the NSC has at least some authority in setting the strategy.Trump has granted the Pentagon the authority to decide how many additional troops to deploy to the war-ravaged country.Directly dealing with Pakistan’s support ...
Russia disabled U.S. Tomahawks in Syria!
Post Date: 2017-07-21 07:15:31 by Tatarewicz
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You Tube Video (Link) Comments: Mario Milano... The Pentagram that has multi billion dollar aircraft carriers that are obsolete, Fighters that have cost trillions that don't work, ships that are easily jammed and rendered useless and now so are their missiles....... Hansel.... Russia Army Grade Jammer's Krasukha-4 – An Army Grade Jammer Posted on April 13, 2014 by tim “Krasukha – 4" is another weapon of the Russian army. However this weapon doesn’t shoot projectiles. Its sole purpose is to generate interference to jam other signals. As the Russian article on it says, it “makes missiles and planes of others blind and deaf literary”. I am not ...
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