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Latest Articles: War, War, War
End of an era? Afghanistan is now graveyard of contractors, too.
Post Date: 2021-04-29 08:57:21 by Ada
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They formed their own shadow army, some 90,000 in the country at its peak, but their problematic predomination is coming to an end. The golden post-9/11 years of the war contractor — the providers of food and transportation, fuel, construction, maintenance, IT, not to mention security and interrogation services for the U.S. military — appear to be drawing down. With the (hopeful) withdrawal of the remaining 3,600 troops in Afghanistan by September, attention is also on the nearly 17,000 contractors on the U.S. payroll there, 6,147 of whom are American citizens. “The U.S. contractors will come out as we come out. That is part of the planned withdrawal we have in place ...
Twenty Years Of The War On Terror
Post Date: 2021-04-25 09:57:04 by Ada
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A citizen journalist marks a grim anniversary. Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, by Scott Horton (The Libertarian Institute: 2021), 330 pages. We’re approaching the 20th anniversary of the Global War on Terror when the George W. Bush administration made the decision to ruin the 21st century. Trillions of dollars spent, a permanent and expanding war bureaucracy on our shores, upwards of a million civilians dead, tens of millions more displaced, entire regions of the globe destabilized, and the American people no safer than they were on September 10. When the immensity of the nefariousness is laid bare, a normal man is tempted, in the words of satirical cynic H.L. ...
Montana Becomes First State To Pass Resolution Against Unconstitutional Wars
Post Date: 2021-04-23 09:12:42 by Ada
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The Montana state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan and unprecedented resolution Tuesday calling on the federal government to end endless wars. The resolution passed 95-3 in the House and 47-2 in the Senate. House Joint Resolution 9, sponsored by Rep. Ron Marshall (R-Hamilton), is the first of its kind to be introduced by any state and is currently being used as a model for other states across the country. The resolution specifically urges President Joe Biden and the United States Congress to “end the endless war in Afghanistan,” repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, resist sending U.S. troops into combat without a declaration of war from ...
The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media
Post Date: 2021-04-16 10:26:41 by Ada
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. Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all. Journalist Glenn Greenwald just highlighted an interesting point about the reporting by The New York Times on the so-called “Bountygate” story the outlet broke in June of last year about the Russian government trying to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan. “One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia ...
A Letter on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation
Post Date: 2021-04-15 12:45:56 by Esso
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TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation. I have determined that specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation — in particular, efforts to undermine the conduct of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and its allies ...
Media Concern Trolling About Afghanistan Withdrawal Again
Post Date: 2021-04-11 08:57:15 by Ada
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“Concerns mount that US withdrawal from Afghanistan could risk progress on women’s rights,” blares a new headline from CNN. “Concerns are mounting from bipartisan US lawmakers and Afghan women’s rights activists that the hard-won gains for women and civil society in Afghanistan could be lost if the United States makes a precipitous withdrawal from the country,” CNN tells us. What follows is yet another concern-trolling empire blog about why US troops need to stay in Afghanistan, joining recent others geared toward the same end like this CNN report about how the US military will open itself up to “costly litigation” if it withdraws now because it ...
The military signed contracts for Afghanistan well into 2023. That’s their problem.
Post Date: 2021-04-08 08:14:43 by Ada
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This is clearly the week that every argument against getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by May 1 is being thrown up — to borrow a line from Robin Wright — like spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks. The latest, this little nugget highlighted by CNN’s Oren Liebermann this morning, which suggests Washington will be sued by private companies that have contracts with the U.S. government if they cannot continue operating in Afghanistan through 2022 and 2023. In fact, according to Liebermann, some 18 contracts totaling $931 million dollars were signed after the Doha Agreement in 2020 that outlined the U.S. departure this spring. Much of the contract work involves ...
The Kremlin Has Allowed the US/Ukraine Attack on Donbass to Go on Far Too Long
Post Date: 2021-04-03 13:41:53 by Ada
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Will war be the result? Kiev now claims a US “guarantee.” This is a situation similar to the “guarantee” the idiot British government gave to Poland, thus encouraging Poland to provoke Germany into war. The worst decision the present-day Kremiln has made is to refuse the request of Donbass to reunite with Russia. This deplorable decision has produced ongoing conflict, ongoing deaths of Russian people in Donbass, a buildup in Ukrainian military forces, and now a Pentagon guarantee against Russian defense of Donbass. The normally low-key Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that attempts to start a new military conflict in Donbass could end up destroying ...
The Endless War: Afghanistan Goes On and On
Post Date: 2021-04-02 08:58:25 by Ada
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All indications are that the Pentagon will be able to maneuver more effectively in Washington than on the battlefield. Given the present atmosphere in Washington in which there is no lie so outrageous as to keep it out of the mainstream media, a great deal of policy making takes place without even key players in the government knowing what is going on behind their backs. Of course, there is a long tradition of government lying in general but most politicians and officials have probably convinced themselves that they are avoiding the truth because complicating issues might lead to endless debate where nothing ever gets done. There may be some truth to that, but it is a self-serving notion ...
Biden Plans Afghanistan Train Wreck
Post Date: 2021-04-02 06:33:37 by Ada
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On May 1, U.S. may face an “entirely new war.” The seemingly eternal war in Afghanistan continues. American forces have been on station for nearly 20 years, longer than the Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and Korean War combined. Some $2 trillion have been spent. More than 6,000 U.S. service members and contractors have died, along with roughly 1,100 allied soldiers. Many more have been wounded, some suffering crippling injuries. Absent a speedy exit, those numbers will continue upward. The U.S. is supposed to leave Afghanistan on May 1, the timetable agreed to by the Taliban. However, at his recent press conference President ...
Retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor Exposes the Pentagon’s Schemes to Undermine President Trump’s Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Post Date: 2021-04-01 09:26:52 by Ada
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To anyone who had a clue about foreign policy in the last 4 years, it was well-established fact that former President Donald Trump was surrounded by bad actors who did everything possible to derail his America First foreign policy actions. Now, new information has surfaced about how military leadership undermined Trump’s efforts to withdraw from Afghanistan and eventually forced him to yield on the matter. According to a report by Gareth Porter of The Grayzone, retired Col. Douglas Macgregor spilled the beans on the military establishment’s schemes to keep the Afghan conflict going. Trump caught the U.S. military off guard when he signed a presidential order pushing for the ...
Pentagon Would Face Costly Lawsuits If US Ended Afghanistan War
Post Date: 2021-03-30 09:50:56 by Ada
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Military made contracts anticipating years of war Since February 29 of 2020, the US has had a peace deal in place, intending to withdraw from Afghanistan on May 1 of 2021. The US military was always averse to that, but seems to have been basing its contracts on the idea it wouldn’t happen. Former financial officials are warning that if the US does leave Afghanistan, either on May 1 or any time in 2021, the Pentagon would be facing down a “barrel full of lawsuits” from contracts that had not been fulfilled yet. This is rather a flimsy excuse for dragging the war on, and such a clumsy situation to be in with the knowledge of the war’s end being public throughout, that ...
US Intelligence Warns Withdrawal Could Lead To Afghanistan Being Controlled By Afghans
Post Date: 2021-03-28 09:50:51 by Ada
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US intelligence agencies have warned the Biden administration that if the United States withdraws its military presence from Afghanistan under current circumstances, the nation would be at severe risk of falling under the control of the people who live there. A New York Times article titled “Officials Try to Sway Biden Using Intelligence on Potential for Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan” warns that an intelligence assessment has predicted that if “U.S. troops leave before any deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government, the militant group will take over much of the country.” “The intelligence estimate predicted that the Taliban would relatively swiftly ...
F-14 Explodes During Supersonic Flyby
Post Date: 2021-03-24 03:54:18 by Esso
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Poster Comment:I did something just like that, except that I was in a Honda Fit at ground level. I'll never forgive those Honda engineer bastards for keeping my corpse alive.
Forgotten peace history -- San Patricios; major Union/WBTS hypocrisy
Post Date: 2021-03-17 17:44:19 by NeoconsNailed
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From: "Brasscheck TV" Subject: Special Report - The San Patricios Special original Brasscheck program "What is the End Game?" Saturday, March 20 - Watch for it =================== BrasscheckTV Report =================== Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Henry David Thoreau and young Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant thought US aggression against Mexico was a disgrace. And they said so. Some Irish immigrant troops and others did even more. They fought on the side of the invaded and proved to be the most effective fighting unit the Mexicans had. Video: Click here to view the video - Brasscheck TV P.S. We can't make this unique news ...
Media Completely Ignore American Secret Agent’s Trial for Terrorism in Venezuela
Post Date: 2021-02-28 14:28:52 by Ada
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One might think that a supposedly innocent American citizen on trial for terrorism inside a hostile enemy country, facing decades behind bars in Venezuela’s notorious prisons, would spark a nationwide media furor. CARACAS — Unless you read the local Venezuelan press, you are unlikely to know that an American secret agent is currently standing trial in Venezuela on charges of terrorism and weapons trafficking. Matthew John Heath was arrested in September outside Amuay and Cardon oil refineries in possession of a submachine gun, a grenade launcher, C4 explosives, a satellite phone and bricks of $20 bills. The Venezuelan government also alleges that he was found carrying a small ...
Pants Are Sexist, and B00BIES are killing Female Soldiers
Post Date: 2021-02-27 20:43:47 by Esso
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Poster Comment:Great rant.
Afghanistan Buries Another Empire
Post Date: 2021-02-25 07:36:23 by Ada
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What would have been unthinkable 20 years ago is today a very real possibility: a Taliban victory. It’s easy to forget, but the United States by the end of 2001 thought it had won in Afghanistan. The CIA had undertaken an unofficial policy of war against Osama bin Laden back in 1998, and after 9/11, their agents were able to draw upon that planning to move quickly against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The bombing began in October; Northern Alliance fighters were inside Kabul by mid-November. Osama bin Laden fled, possibly to Tora Bora and eventually to Pakistan. A new age was declared in Central Asia. So rapid was the Taliban’s defeat that it threw some antiwar sorts off balance. ...
House Homeland Security Committee Member Requests State Department Designate Proud Boys and Oathkeepers As Terror Groups
Post Date: 2021-02-24 09:23:45 by Ada
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A House Homeland Security Committee member today sent Secretary of State Anthony Blinken a letter calling for the immediate designation of the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers as international terrorist groups. The author of the letter is Josh Gottheimer, a Jewish congressman from New Jersey. In the request, he cites a Jewish activist group, the Anti- Defamation League, along with the Southern Poverty Law Center, as main authorities for characterizing Proud Boys as a "white supremacist" group looking to engage in political violence domestically and globally. If the State Department adheres to Gottheimer's recommendations, membership and financial transactions for either group ...
Trump Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Tax Returns
Post Date: 2021-02-23 19:38:06 by noone222
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President Donald Trump issued a blistering response slamming the Supreme Court decision Monday allowing a New York prosecutor to see his tax returns. “The investigation is a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of our country, whether it was the never ending $32 million Mueller hoax, which already investigated everything that could possibly be investigated, ‘Russia Russia Russia,’ where there was a finding of ‘No Collusion,’ or two ridiculous ‘Crazy Nancy’ inspired impeachment attempts where I was found NOT GUILTY. It just never ends!” reads a statement released by The Office of Donald J. Trump. ...
13403 kHz - E07 number station - longest transmission ever, Apr 11 2018
Post Date: 2021-02-22 12:38:48 by Esso
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A "radio broadcast" by a spy numbers station, designated E07, believed to originate in Russia. This transmission is remarkable in its unusual length of 1 hour straight! The reason for such a long transmission were the messages relayed over to a spy this link is set for. Agent 641 received two messages, one consisting of 293 5-digit groups, while the second one had 266 of them. This totals to 559 groups. Certainly a lot to write down! Why had he receive so many (long) messages? In fact, there is a lot going on concerning Russia, its diplomacy and military activities, from diverting of Russian foreign-based diplomats to possible military activities in Syria. According to a ...
Pressure building to keep US troops in Afghanistan indefinitely
Post Date: 2021-02-22 08:09:30 by Ada
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The meeting of NATO defence ministers and Munich Security Conference has left unanswered the question over whether the Biden administration will bring remaining U.S. troops home from Afghanistan by May 1, in accordance with the U.S.-Taliban agreement. The ambiguity of European and U.S. statements following the meeting may be intended to pressure the Taliban and Afghan government back to the negotiating table. But indecision this close to the deadline risks throwing away a one-time opportunity to leave Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s remarks at the NATO meeting assured partners that the “U.S. remains committed to a diplomatic effort to end the war,” but also ...
The Department of Homeland Security Is Paying Deranged Leftists To Find A Way To Make You Change Your Political Beliefs
Post Date: 2021-02-19 10:11:32 by Ada
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Fresh off a summer of prolonged murder and arson organized by leftists, the Department of Homeland Security announced the lucky winners of its "domestic terrorism prevention" grant system last September. One recipient program is at American University's School of Communications, which got $568,613 from the DHS to partner with Google's Jigsaw (an AI project that specializes in manipulating search results to achieve political ends) in order to "define and describe the growing threat of violent white supremacist extremist disinformation, evaluate attitudinal inoculation as a strategy for communication to combat the threat, and develop a suite of operational tools for ...
The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror
Post Date: 2021-02-12 07:12:53 by Dakmar
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If you enjoyed the Global War on Terror, you’re going to love the new War on Domestic Terror! It’s just like the original Global War on Terror, except that this time the “Terrorists” are all “Domestic Violent Extremists” (“DVEs”), “Homegrown Violent Extremists” (“HVEs”), “Violent Conspiracy-Theorist Extremists” (“VCTEs”), “Violent Reality Denialist Extremists” (VRDEs”), “Insurrectionary Micro-Aggressionist Extremists” (“IMAEs”), “People Who Make Liberals Feel Uncomfortable” (“PWMLFUs”), and anyone else the Department of Homeland Security wants to label an ...
The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror
Post Date: 2021-02-09 08:52:26 by Ada
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If you enjoyed the Global War on Terror, you’re going to love the new War on Domestic Terror! It’s just like the original Global War on Terror, except that this time the “Terrorists” are all “Domestic Violent Extremists” (“DVEs”), “Homegrown Violent Extremists” (“HVEs”), “Violent Conspiracy-Theorist Extremists” (“VCTEs”), “Violent Reality Denialist Extremists” (VRDEs”), “Insurrectionary Micro-Aggressionist Extremists” (“IMAEs”), “People Who Make Liberals Feel Uncomfortable” (“PWMLFUs”), and anyone else the Department of Homeland Security wants to label an ...
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