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JPost: 'Israeli Officials: U.S. Must Strike in Syria'
Post Date: 2018-04-09 08:26:18 by Ada
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The average American may not want the US to go to war with Syria based off fake news about an alleged chemical attack, but Israeli government officials on all sides sure as hell do. They're demanding the US strike Syria immediately and telling their own citizens they're next on Assad's gassing list if America doesn't act. Click for Full Text!
Syria - Timelines Of 'Gas Attacks' Follow A Similar Scheme (Update II) Updated below
Post Date: 2018-04-09 05:25:37 by Tatarewicz
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Moon of Alabama... Over the last months the Syrian army secured 90% of 'rebel' enclave in east-Ghouta right next to the Syrian capital Damascus. Only the town of Douma, held by the Saudi financed Salafist Takfiris of Jaish al-Isalm, was left in enemy hands. Negotiations about an evacuation of the terrorist were ongoing. At one point last week the hard core leaders of Jaish al-Islam pulled their negotiators back from the talks and reportedly executed them. Jaish al-Islam wanted to essentially stay in place and keep all its weapons. The Russian negotiators did not agree with this. On Friday the negotiations failed. Barrages of missiles and grenades from Douma hit Damascus. The ...
After the FBI's Pulse nightclub failure, why should we trust James Comey anymore?
Post Date: 2018-04-05 08:29:33 by Ada
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Noor Salman, the widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay Orlando nightclub has been acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI and helping her husband in the 2016 attack. (March 30) AP Now that Noor Salman has been acquitted of charges she played a role in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, the FBI should be embarrassed. Noor Salman (Photo: U.S. Attorney's Office Middle District of Florida) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 18 COMMENTEMAILMORE The FBI suffered another debacle on Friday when an Orlando jury returned a not guilty verdict for the widow of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people and wounded 53 in his attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in June 2016. The biggest ...
White House: US Troops Will Remain in Syria
Post Date: 2018-04-05 06:17:53 by Ada
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Trump wants out, but troops aren't going anywhere President Trump is still very clear he wants US troops out of Syria, and has even ordered commanders to quickly wrap up military operations in the country. It doesn’t seem to be happening, however, as White House officials have been feverishly backpedaling from the president’s comments. President Trump was said to have been pushing for a withdrawal for months behind the scenes, and comments over the past week seemingly made that formal policy. Though Trump advisers are said to have drawn up plans for a pullout, they proposed an alternative plan to Trump, where they don’t leave at all. White House indications are that ...
Pentagon at odds with Trump over troop withdrawal from Syria
Post Date: 2018-04-04 01:11:07 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US Army General Joseph Votel, commander of the US Central Command, testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 27, 2018. (Photo by AFP) Top Pentagon and US State Department officials have adopted a totally different policy than that of President Donald Trump regarding the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, saying that the United States will not be leaving the war-torn Arab country anytime soon as the “mission is not over.” Addressing a forum in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, US Central Command Chief General Joseph Votel said “well over 90 percent” of land once held by the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri ...
Unbridgeable Gap: Who We Were and Who We Thought We Were
Post Date: 2018-04-03 07:35:17 by Ada
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Americans, and their soldiers, were led to believe they fought for democracy and freedom these past 17 years; the truth was far murkier. "War is just a racket… I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service…during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism." ~ Major General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps, 2 time Medal of Honor recipient (1935) I grew up in blue-collar Staten Island, New York City. My mother was a waitress, my father an overqualified civil servant who also painted houses and delivered Chinese ...
Noor Salman, Widow of Pulse Killer Omar Mateen, Is Found Not Guilty of All Charges
Post Date: 2018-04-01 10:19:44 by Ada
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In an Orlando courtroom this morning, a 12-person jury, after three days of deliberation, found Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse attacker Omar Mateen, not guilty on all charges. Salman had been accused of providing material support of terrorism, based on the accusation that she aided her deceased husband in the 2016 Pulse attack, as well as obstruction of justice for allegedly lying to the FBI. She will now be a free woman. As The Intercept has been reporting, the prosecution of Salman was bizarre and dubious from the start. Salman has no history of any political or religious radicalism, and was a victim of her husband’s violent abuse, not his partner or collaborator. Worse, Justice ...
The Father of Pulse Attacker Omar Mateen Was an FBI Informant. Did He Convince the Bureau to Stop Investigating His Son?
Post Date: 2018-03-27 07:52:12 by Ada
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(Is there any mass murder where the FBI is not involved.) Before Omar Mateen charged into the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and killed 49 people in June 2016, the FBI conducted two so-called assessments, the bureau’s term of art for limited national security investigations that do not require probable cause. In both cases, the bureau determined that Mateen was not a potential terrorist. During the attack, while barricaded in a bathroom, Mateen suggested to hostage negotiators that he had committed the nightclub massacre in response to U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, including one that killed senior Islamic State member Abu Wahib. “You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria ...
How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars?
Post Date: 2018-03-24 10:21:24 by Ada
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The numbers of casualties of U.S. wars since Sept. 11, 2001 have largely gone uncounted, but coming to terms with the true scale of the crimes committed remains an urgent moral, political and legal imperative. How many people have been killed in America’s post-9/11 wars? I have been researching and writing about that question since soon after the U.S. launched these wars, which it has tried to justify as a response to terrorist crimes that killed 2,996 people in the U.S. on September 11th 2001. But no crime, however horrific, can justify wars on countries and people who were not responsible for the crime committed, as former Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz patiently explained to ...
Illegal Wars: The New American Way
Post Date: 2018-03-24 07:10:40 by Ada
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[T]he President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons. … – S.J. Res. 23 (107th): Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), Sept. 18, 2001 The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary … in order to … defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq. … – H. J. Res 114 (107th): Authorization for the Use of Military Force ...
McMaster out, Bolton in as Trump's national security adviser
Post Date: 2018-03-22 19:59:27 by bush_is_a_moonie
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One question for Trump supporters. How are you going explain to your family members and others that you were partially responsible for WW III? President Donald Trump is replacing national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, injecting a hawkish foreign policy voice into his administration ahead of key decisions on Iran and North Korea. Trump tweeted Thursday that McMaster has done "an outstanding job & will always remain my friend." He said Bolton will take over April 9. Bolton will be Trump's third national security adviser. Trump has clashed with McMaster, a respected three-star general, and talk that McMaster would soon leave ...
Russian military to respond if US strikes Syria: Senior general
Post Date: 2018-03-13 23:44:52 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... A top Russian general says his country will respond to a US strike on Syria, targeting any missiles and launchers involved in such an attack, if the lives of Russian servicemen are threatened. “There are many Russian advisers, representatives of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and servicemen in Damascus and at Syrian defense facilities,” the RIA news agency quoted head of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov as saying. The warning came a day after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said Washington was ready to unilaterally "act" against Syria, just as it did last year when it bombed a Syrian government air base over ...
Record Afghan Opium Crop Signals Violent Year for U.S. Forces
Post Date: 2018-03-13 09:07:24 by Ada
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As poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increases, more funds are likely supporting the Taliban’s insurgency, portending a tough year ahead for U.S. occupiers, write Will Porter and Kyle Anzalone. In Afghanistan, the world’s most powerful military is threatened by a small, pink flower. Map illustrating the Afghan provinces where the most poppies are being cultivated. Despite an escalation of the Afghan conflict under the Trump administration, a record opium crop, coupled with steady Taliban gains, foretell bitter fighting in the coming months for American forces and the Afghans stationed alongside them. “Record-high opium production is but one indication of how badly U.S. ...
Washington will act unilaterally on Syria: US envoy to UN
Post Date: 2018-03-13 00:39:28 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has warned that if the Security Council fails to act on Syria, Washington is ready "to act if we must," just as it did last year when it bombed a Syrian government air base over allegations of chemical weapons attack. Haley’s comments on Monday are to back a draft resolution circulated at the council earlier in the day that demands an immediate 30-day ceasefire in Damascus and eastern Ghouta, where Syrian forces are targeting terrorist groups which are shelling the capital. United Nations diplomats meet during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria at the United Nations on March 12, 2018 in New York ...
Is it time the US apologised for invading Iraq?
Post Date: 2018-03-10 06:57:17 by Ada
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Fifteen years since the invasion of Iraq, we ask retired US Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt about war crimes and the war's legacy. Fifteen years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the consequences of the subsequent war continue to be debated. According to the UN refugee agency, more than four million people have been displaced. There is no widely accepted figure for civilian deaths, but estimates run from the hundreds of thousands into the millions. "Would we like a do-over, of course we would," says Mark Kimmitt, retired US Brigadier General who served as deputy director of operations and chief military spokesman in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. While Kimmitt accepts the US "did ...
We Should Listen to the Iraqi Parliament
Post Date: 2018-03-06 09:06:14 by Ada
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This month marks the 15th anniversary of the US war on Iraq. The “shock and awe” attack was launched based on “stove-piped” intelligence fed from the CIA and Pentagon through an uncritical and compliant US mainstream media. The US media was a willing accomplice to this crime of aggression committed by the George W. Bush Administration. Despite the lies we were constantly bombarded with, Iraq never presented a threat to the United States. Iraq never had the weapons of mass destruction that the neocons used to frighten Americans into supporting the war. How many of them knew all along that there were no WMDs? We’ll never know. Attacking Iraq and overthrowing its ...
The New Cold War Is Here
Post Date: 2018-03-05 03:22:45 by Ada
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– and it could turn hot at any moment If President Trump is “Putin’s puppet,” as the loonies of #TheResistance claim, then why is the Russian leader making speeches threatening to destroy the United States with “invincible” nuclear weapons – and illustrating his threat with a video rendition of a Russia ICBM circling the globe and hitting Florida? Although the Russians deny it, it looks to me like that missile is headed straight for Mar-a-Lago. Putin’s recent speech was over two hours long: the first half was taken up with Putin’s take on every single aspect of life in Russia, from the state of the airports to the housing market to ...
US Senator: US ‘Finding It Difficult to Hold’ Somali Territory
Post Date: 2018-03-05 03:14:39 by Ada
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US Troops in Somalia struggling with 'clear and hold' strategy It is rare indeed for US officials in the know to provide more than a very nominal insight into US military operation in Somalia. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is fresh back from Somalia, and offering a new perspective on it. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) Sen. Reed, who had been a US soldier in Somalia back in the 1990s, says that the US doctrine of “disrupt, clear, and hold” is not doing so great in this latest deployment to Somalia, saying that the troops are very good at disrupting, but not much else. Reed tried to spin this as the US not being at the “clear and hold” ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham: North Korea War Would Be ‘Worth It’
Post Date: 2018-03-05 03:10:44 by Ada
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Wargames project huge US casualties unseen in a generation A US war in North Korea would be bloody, with tens of thousands of US soldiers killed and millions of civilians on the Korean Peninsula. A recent US exercise projected brutality “beyond the experience of any living soldier,” according to Army chief Gen. Mark Milley. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tried to sum that up in two words – “worth it.” The notoriously bellicose senator insisted that the disastrous number of deaths would definitely be worth it to the US government as a boost in “long-term stability.” At least more stability for the survivors. North Korea has always ...
Yet Another Senseless Mass Killing: Women and Children Among 25 Dead
Post Date: 2018-03-03 10:44:00 by Ada
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This week, 25 people were slaughtered in yet another mass killing, and half of those deaths were women and children. But you won’t see these murders broadcast relentlessly on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, nor discussed at length in social media threads. That’s because the U.S. military committed them in their crusade against the Islamic State’s “last enclave on the Euphrates in Syria,” Reuters reported Monday. It is for this reason that many Americans will dismiss comparisons between this type of mass killing and school shootings and other domestic mass atrocities. Their grossly overfunded (yet somehow financially irresponsible) military is fighting the good fight. If ...
Hollywood hoopla ignores media's history of servility
Post Date: 2018-03-03 08:37:23 by Ada
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Much of the media nowadays is portraying itself as heroes of the #Resist Trump movement. To exploit that meme, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out “The Post,” a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration. But regardless of whether Spielberg’s latest wins the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday night, Americans should never forget the media’s long history of pandering to presidents and the Pentagon. ADVERTISEMENT “The Post” is built around the Pentagon Papers, a secret study begun in 1967 analyzing where the Vietnam war had gone awry. The 7000-page tome showed that presidents and military leaders had been profoundly ...
TANGLED WEB IN THE EAST GHOUTA; GHOUTA HAS GOT THE NEOCON GOAT
Post Date: 2018-03-01 05:32:11 by Tatarewicz
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Sypers... The Western Media is going berserk over the situation in the Eastern Ghouta. The propaganda is reaching a shrill crescendo indicating hysterics. Or, more likely, it is coordinated to prepare public opinion for a more obscene type of Western response to staged propaganda endemic to any area where the so-called “White Helmets” are found. No Western media reports are coming out of ‘Afreen which is being bombarded daily by America’s allies, the Turks. No, it’s only the Ghouta where America’s and NATO’s terrorist allies are facing annihilation. Little or no information is being published decrying the Saudi-inspired carnage in Yemen. It is obvious ...
Americans Are Horrified by Mass Killings — Unless the Government Is Doing It
Post Date: 2018-02-28 09:09:37 by Ada
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As Americans continue to rage over the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Florida, expressing indignation at both the atrocity and efforts to impose (or reject) gun control, the U.S. government has acknowledged its own perpetual addiction to violence. According to two letters released by the federal government last week in response to an inquiry from Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, the U.S. plans to maintain its military presence in Syria and Iraq indefinitely, citing vague threats of terrorism. In one letter, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) David Trachtenberg responded to Kaine by justifying continued operations in Syria with the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force ...
SYRIAN ARMY TO ENTER AFREEN; GEARING UP FOR WAR; U.S. IN THE CROSSHAIRS
Post Date: 2018-02-22 08:40:09 by Tatarewicz
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Sypers... Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s able foreign minister, has formally accused the U.S. of supporting Jabhat Al-Nusra (Alqaeda), an organization considered terrorist by every nation on earth except the Zionist Apartheid Entity. Not only does the UN consider Nusra a terrorist organization, but, also, the American Department of State. Lavrov stated that it was obvious the U.S. was not willing to fight Nusra in Syria based on their inaction whenever opportunities arose to strike that terrorist group. Just as the U.S. created Alqaeda, so did the U.S. create Nusra. Remember some of my old articles about this subject: Nusra which means “assistance” in Arabic was created by Robert ...
Trump has at least one thing right: our post-9/11 wars have been a mistake
Post Date: 2018-02-17 07:02:56 by Ada
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In a typically offhand remark, President Trump the other day rendered his personal assessment of our various post-9/11 wars, interventions, and punitive expeditions. “Seven trillion dollars. What a mistake,” he said. “But it is what it is.” The seven trillion is merely a guesstimate, of course. No one, least of all the lords of the Pentagon, really knows how much our sundry military campaigns, large and small, have cost. Yet at this point, total expenditures certainly reach well into the trillions. And whatever the current tally, that sum will inevitably increase as our wars drag on and as downstream obligations – care for veterans, for example – pile up for ...
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