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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Tomgram: William Astore, The Self-Defeating Military
Post Date: 2020-02-06 09:36:23 by Bill D Berger
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Here was the headline that recently caught my eye: “Former Top U.S. General Dunford Joining Unicef.” Okay, you knew it was a joke immediately, right? There’s really only one conceivable headline of that sort when you’re talking about a figure like four-star general Joseph Dunford, Jr., who commanded the 5th Marine Regiment in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and all U.S. (and NATO) forces in Afghanistan from 2012-2014, then became commandant of the Marine Corps, and, until last October, was the only chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump era. I’m sure you’ve already more or less guessed, but here’s the actual headline that caught my eye the other ...
Take a Whiff of Failure: More Heroin, Attacks, and Hunger in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2020-02-04 07:52:59 by Ada
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But success is always around the corner, right? The people who argue the hardest for staying in Afghanistan forever like to intimate that progress is incremental and that real success is just around the corner—if we have the fortitude and patience to stay. They typically use metrics to prove the point. But looking at the most recent quarterly figures from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, the only truth teller in the whole of our government (and least popular bureaucrat), you can probably surmise that after 18 years that line is as old and useless as the war itself. Come on people, it’s not getting any better. Just a taste: —There were 8,204 enemy attacks ...
Attorneys for Coast Guard lieutenant accused of terror plot say new evidence refutes allegations
Post Date: 2020-01-30 12:41:42 by BTP Holdings
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Attorneys for Coast Guard lieutenant accused of terror plot say new evidence refutes allegations Christopher Hasson This file image provided by the Maryland U.S. District Attorney’s Office shows a photo of firearms and ammunition that belonged to Christopher Paul Hasson, a Coast Guard lieutenant. Federal prosecutors recommend a 25-year prison sentence for Hasson, accused of stockpiling ... more > By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 30, 2020 Attorneys for Christopher Hasson, a Coast Guard lieutenant accused of planning a terror attack and the murder of liberal politicians and television pundits, said Thursday that newly discovered evidence refutes ...
One of the CIA's waterboarding torturers called himself "The Preacher" and shouted religious nonsense while performing executions
Post Date: 2020-01-28 08:20:21 by Ada
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More word from the ongoing attempt to bring the people responsible for years of CIA torture to justice: one of the three waterboarding specialists at Guantanamo was called "The Preacher" because while he was drowning suspects to the point of near death, he "would at random times put one hand on the forehead of a detainee, raise the other high in the air, and in a deep Southern drawl say things like, 'Can you feel it, son? Can you feel the spirit moving down my arm, into your body?'" The sadistic torturer's real name isn't known. He was codenamed NZ7. Top articles 1/5 READ MORE Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers Tales of The ...
Petraeus Says Trump May Have Helped ‘Reestablish Deterrence’ by Killing Suleimani
Post Date: 2020-01-18 13:07:43 by BTP Holdings
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Petraeus Says Trump May Have Helped ‘Reestablish Deterrence’ by Killing Suleimani The former U.S. commander and CIA director says Iran’s “very fragile” situation may limit its response. By Lara Seligman | January 3, 2020, 1:37 PM Gen. David Petraeus speaks in New Windsor, New York, on June 25, 2010. Spencer Platt/Getty Images As a former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and a former CIA director, retired Gen. David Petraeus is keenly familiar with Qassem Suleimani, the powerful chief of Iran’s Quds Force, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad Friday morning. After months of a muted U.S. response to Tehran’s repeated lashing ...
History of US Iran Conflict Explained
Post Date: 2020-01-16 00:07:34 by Pinguinite
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Well presented, credible, seemingly balanced. Begins with oil discovery in Iran 100+ years ago.
Revolving Door Shills on TV Need an ‘Outing’
Post Date: 2020-01-14 08:47:24 by Ada
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These guys are the 'Message Force Multipliers' of 2020. If there are no disclosures coming, we need to crowd-source this. Just like David Barstow’s explosive investigative report on the Pentagon’s “Message Force Multipliers” in April 2008, Lee Fang at The Intercept has done us a tremendous favor by pointing out that many of the so-called military experts who are making the rounds this week to talk about the U.S.-Iran confrontation in Iraq are in fact paid shills for the defense industry. That’s right: David Petraeus, Van Hipp, Jeh Johnson, John Negroponte (and these are just the ones featured in Fang’s piece)—all have ties to the Big 5 ...
America Has a Samson Problem
Post Date: 2020-01-13 08:03:01 by Ada
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Our confrontation with Iran is part of a larger overconfidence in our military to solve all the world's problems. Critics of the Soleimani assassination point out that it was an action devoid of strategic purpose. They are correct to do so. Yet let’s not blame Donald Trump and his ever-changing cast of senior advisers for having strayed off the path of good sense. The United States lost its way decades ago when members of the policy elite succumbed to an infatuation with military power and thereby lost their strategic bearings. The current crisis with Iran brings into focus something that ought to have long ago attracted attention: this country has a Samson problem. The United ...
Libya: Putin and Erdogan Intervene to Calm Mad Max Situation Down!
Post Date: 2020-01-10 09:56:20 by Ada
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All of our focus was on Iran the last couple of days, but for some reason Libya decided to go full Mad Max without warning anybody, and now we’re playing catch-up here. What in the world is going down in Libya that Putin and Erdogan suddenly feel the need to intervene? RT: General Khalifa Haftar, leader of the Libyan National Army, has rejected the ceasefire proposed by the Russian and Turkish presidents as a way to de-escalate the hostilities with the government in Tripoli. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a truce in Libya during their meeting on Wednesday in Istanbul, after Turkey sent troops and equipment to Tripoli in support ...
Tulsi Gabbard Goes on Fox News, Shows That She’s the Single Candidate for 2020 That is Against War
Post Date: 2020-01-07 09:43:07 by Ada
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Fox News is the only one interviewing Tulsi Gabbard on the Iranian situation. They gave her pushback, but they let her say that this push for war makes absolutely no sense, and that all of this drama with Iran is a result of the initial pullout – by Donald Trump – of the 2015 nuclear deal. After letting her say that, Fox News then showed footage of a man with a messed up face from an IED talking about how Iran was responsible for killing American troops (that the Jews sent to invade Iraq). They then played a video of “bad Islam man” Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of Hezbollah, saying that he will take vengeance on America for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. The ...
3,000 additional troops to deploy to Middle East as Pentagon prepares for Soleimani strike fallout
Post Date: 2020-01-06 15:58:19 by Bill D Berger
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops to the Middle East to bolster security and its ability to respond quickly to expected violence throughout the region after a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad killed Iran’s most powerful general, defense officials said Friday. The new deployment will include roughly 3,000 82nd Airborne Division soldiers who were placed on prepare-to-deploy orders earlier this week amid growing tensions in Iraq between the United States and Iran, two officials said. At least several dozen special operations troops were also deployed to the region, one of the officials said. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the ...
Putin Will Restrain Iranian Retaliation
Post Date: 2020-01-06 08:09:28 by Ada
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A number of intelligent analysts predict Iranian retaliation for Washington’s murder of a high Iranian official who was in Iraq on a diplomatic mission. I understand their logic. However, I wonder. Putin doesn’t want war. Why should he when Washington’s arrogance is destroying the US and the empire. Even Germany has had enough of Washington because of Washington’s interference in German energy policy and sanctions on companies involved with the construction of the Nord 2 gas pipeline. https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/germany-and-eu-condemn-us-sanctions-on-gas-pipeline/ In France Washington’s puppet, Macron, is showing independence by saying that ...
Trump’s Point of No Return
Post Date: 2020-01-04 20:00:43 by Bill D Berger
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When I wrote that the coup against President Trump had morphed into a Civil War, I wasn’t kidding. The sham impeachment created the perfect environment for the Democrats and Republicans to get something definitive from him by playing the House and the Senate off each other. With the Senate Neocon Occupied Territory the escalation of belligerence since Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through the impeachment vote has been serious. First, there was the rider to the NDAA which upped the sanctions on everyone willing to work on Nordstream 2. Then Lindsey Graham pushed the frankly insane DASKA bill through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Pelosi forced her impeachment vote ...
Corporate Media Turns to Warhawks, Including Former Bush Officials, to Beat Drums of War on Iran
Post Date: 2020-01-04 14:24:44 by Bill D Berger
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Karl Rove and Ari Fleischer, senior adviser and White House press secretary under the George W. Bush administration, appeared on Fox News Thursday night in the hours after the Trump administration assassinated top Iranian military official Qasem Soleimani. (Photo: Fox News/screenshot)Trump critics and peace advocates watched in horror Thursday night and Friday morning as some of the top architects of the Iraq War took to the corporate media to spin a narrative aimed at retroactively convincing Americans that the killing of Iranian military official Qasem Soleimani was essential to the safety of the U.S.—a replica of the run-up to the Iraq War nearly two decades ago. Following reports ...
Murder INC.
Post Date: 2020-01-04 12:07:38 by Ada
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The US drone strike at Baghdad airport that killed Iran’s top commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and a senior leader of Iraq’s Shia militia, has set the Mideast on fire. The Trump administration, which authorized the assassination, called it a ’pre-emptive’ strike. Iran branded it ‘outright murder.’ Soleimani was Iran’s second most powerful figure and a national icon. He headed up the Quds Force, the elite branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, a key player in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and the Gulf region. Soleimani was also the most capable, intelligent and effective military leader in a region of third rate generals. The 62-year-old general ...
The Donald Is Now America First’s Own Assassin
Post Date: 2020-01-04 09:04:35 by Ada
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By the twisted logic of Imperial Washington you could say the Iranians were asking for it. After all, they had the nerve to locate their country right in the middle of 35 U.S. military bases! Then again, your saner angels may ask: What in the hell is Washington doing with a massive military footprint in a region and in a string of backwater countries that have virtually no bearing on homeland security, safety and liberty? Djibouti? Oman? Kyrgyzstan? Uzbekistan? Afghanistan? Bahrain? Kuwait? And, yes, Iraq and Iran? In fact, Washington destroyed the former for no good reason and based on egregious Big Lies about Saddam’s nonexistent WMDs and sheltering of al-Qaeda. That turned Iraq ...
‘They Are Liars, And They Don’t Care About You’: Tucker Warns Of ‘Reckless And Incompetent’ Proponents Of War With Iran
Post Date: 2020-01-03 22:24:20 by Bill D Berger
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacted to news of the death of a top Iranian military leader by warning viewers against “reckless and incompetent” proponents of war with Iran. As news of the death of Iran’s Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani during an airstrike near Baghdad’s airport broke during Thursday night’s broadcasting of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Fox News host observed that the United States “appears to be lumbering toward a new Middle East war,” one that “official Washington has wanted for decades.” googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('dailycaller_inline1'); }); Carlson opined that “disgraced ...
US killing of Iranian commander on Iraqi soil violates terms of US stationing troops in the country – Iraqi PM
Post Date: 2020-01-03 18:09:13 by Ada
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US killing of Iranian commander on Iraqi soil violates terms of US stationing troops in the country – Iraqi PM The interim prime minister of Iraq has condemned the US assassination of a senior Iranian commander, calling it an act of aggression against his country. Qassem Soleimani was killed at Baghdad airport. Soleimani, the commander of the elite Quds Force, was killed after his convoy was hit by US missiles. A deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), the Iraqi militia collective backed by Iran, was killed in the same airstrike. In a statement on Friday, the caretaker leader of Iraq's protest-challenged government, Adil Abdul Mahdi, said the US assassination ...
BOLD MOVE: Trump Just Assassinated Iranian Military Leader in Iraq! Awesome New War Coming!
Post Date: 2020-01-03 09:20:33 by Ada
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As we face down the impending threat of a full-on invasion of the United States by Iraq or Iran or whatever, the brave president of America, Donald Trump, is standing tall and has begun ordering the assassination of high-level Iranian military officials. RT: US President Donald Trump authorized a US military strike near Baghdad’s airport which resulted in the death of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, the Pentagon confirmed in a statement on Thursday. “At the direction of the president, the US military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “This strike was ...
“The Guy is Freaking Evil”
Post Date: 2019-12-30 08:52:18 by Ada
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Newly released testimony from Eddie Gallagher's fellow SEALs paints a dark picture of Trump's 'hero.' President Trump may think that bringing convicted war criminals on the 2020 campaign trail will bolster his cred with the base, and maybe it will, but it’ll be a bumpy ride. White knights aren’t always so stainless, and Trump has chosen a collection of tarnished men who even their fellow comrades think are a disgrace to the uniform. Who is Trump to say which SEAL Team 7 member is the hero and who is the heel? Days after the president hosted Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher and his wife at the summer White House in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the New York Tines has ...
Cut out Washington noise: Let's pay respect to the men who died last week serving the U.S.
Post Date: 2019-12-26 21:03:01 by BTP Holdings
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Cut out Washington noise: Let's pay respect to the men who died last week serving the U.S. Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Opinion columnist Published 8:13 a.m. CT Dec. 10, 2019 | Updated 8:18 a.m. CT Dec. 10, 2019 With everything happening in D.C., it's easy to get distracted. But last week, three of our service members died, and our nation needs time to mourn. My fellow Knoxvillian Alex Haley used to say, “Find the good and praise it.” And rather than write about the impeachment clown show or other aspects of Washington dysfunction, I’m going to follow his advice. And this weekend, the good was not hard to find. It came in the form of Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson of ...
The 12 Strongest Arguments That Douma Was A False Flag
Post Date: 2019-12-26 09:24:41 by Ada
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There have been many US military interventions that were based on lies. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is not some kooky blogger’s opinion. It is an extensively documented and indisputable fact. Nothing has ever been done to address this extensively documented and indisputable fact. No laws were ever changed. No war crimes tribunals were ever held. No policies or procedures were ever revised. No one was ever even fired. No changes were implemented to prevent the Iraq deception from happening again, and, when it happened again, no changes were implemented to prevent the Libya deception from happening again. When you make a mistake, you take measures afterward to ensure that you ...
When Will the Afghan War Architects Be Held Accountable?
Post Date: 2019-12-24 09:21:09 by Ada
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Even after the release of the Afghanistan Papers, our elites are still determined to escape without blame. Almost two weeks after the Washington Post’s Craig Whitlock published his six-part series on the trials, tribulations, and blunders of Washington’s 19-year-long social science experiment in Afghanistan, those involved in the war effort are desperately pointing fingers as to who is to blame. An alternative narrative has emerged among this crop of elite policymakers, military officers, and advisers that while American policy in Afghanistan has been horrible, the people responsible for it really did believe it would all work out in the end. Call it the “we were ...
Learning Nothing From the Ghost of Congress Past
Post Date: 2019-12-23 07:42:40 by Ada
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The Afghanistan Papers could have been the start of redemption, but it's all been subsumed by impeachment and an uninterested public. There is a lesson to be learned from the Washington Post’s publication of the “Afghanistan Papers,” which chronicle the corruption, ineptitude, dishonesty, and strategic disarray that have marked the Afghanistan war since its earliest days. That lesson is this: when it comes to war, the American people and their elected representatives will do just about anything to avoid the truth. Granted, Americans have become used to classifying the Afghanistan war as an afterthought. An undertaking begun in a faraway place for long since forgotten ...
The Afghanistan Fiasco and the Decline and Fall of the American Military
Post Date: 2019-12-20 08:07:45 by Ada
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A devastating investigative report was published in the Washington Post on December 9th. Dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers” in a nod to the Vietnam War’s famous “Pentagon Papers,” the report relied on thousands of documents to similarly expose how the US government at the presidential level across three administrations, acting in collaboration with the military brass and civilian bureaucracy, deliberately and systematically lied repeatedly to the public and media about the situation in Afghanistan. Officials from the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations have all surged additional troops into Afghanistan while also regularly overstating the “success” that ...
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