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Latest Articles: War, War, War
West Point Prof Pens Blistering Takedown of U.S. Military Academies
Post Date: 2020-02-17 07:30:22 by Ada
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There's a reason, Tim Bakken says, why the U.S. hasn't won a war in 75 years. What do you call a civilian law professor who, after successfully filing for federal whistleblower status to keep his job teaching at West Point Military Academy, proceeds to write a bombshell book about the systematic corruption, violence, fraud, and anti-intellectualism he says has been rampant at the historic institution for over a hundred years? Well, if you are part of the military leadership or an alumnus of the storied military academy, you may call him a traitor. But if you are anyone searching for reasons why the most powerful military in the world has not won a war in 75 years, you might ...
Turkey Risks War With Syria, Russia as Erdogan Threatens More Attacks
Post Date: 2020-02-14 08:04:53 by Ada
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Erdogan says he'll take military action 'everywhere in Syria' Turkey committed heavily to keeping the Idlib Province out of the control of the Syrian government. This was meant to be a staging area for Turkish-backed rebels, but with al-Qaeda having seized much of the province months ago, it’s pretty much a Syria vs. al-Qaeda battle now for these towns. Turkey has doubled down though, insisting Syria will not be allowed to have Idlib, and risking direct war with both Syria and Russia to make it happen. President Erdogan in particular is threatening military action “everywhere in Syria,” and has given Syria until the end of the month to retreat from Idlib. In ...
Trump Cuts New Hampshire Rally Short To Attend Ceremony for Two Fallen Soldiers
Post Date: 2020-02-11 18:01:03 by BTP Holdings
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Trump Cuts New Hampshire Rally Short To Attend Ceremony for Two Fallen Soldiers President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence observe the dignified transfer of two U.S. soldiers, killed in Afghanistan, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, on Feb. 10, 2020. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) By Erin Coates Published February 11, 2020 at 11:56am President Donald Trump wrapped up his re-election campaign rally in New Hampshire early Monday so he could attend a dignified transfer ceremony for two fallen U.S. Army soldiers. After touting job growth, gun rights and his tough stance on immigration, Trump quickly finished his speech in an hour in “a rare display of brevity and ...
Turkey Says They Killed 101 Syrian Troops in Retaliation
Post Date: 2020-02-11 07:56:00 by Ada
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Five Turkish soldiers slain in shelling of Afrin Early Monday morning, five Turkish soldiers were reported killed in fighting with the Syrian military in the Syrian town of Taftanaz. The town is in rebel-dominated Idlib Province, which Syria is looking to reclaim. As in previous confrontations, Turkey responded with massive military retaliation against Syria. Turkey reported hitting 115 targets in Syria, all government sites. The Turkish Defense Ministry added that 101 Syrian soldiers were killed. In addition to killing the soldiers, Turkey hit a Syrian government helicopter, destroyed three tanks and two artillery pieces. They also reportedly hit some air defenses in the area. Turkey ...
U. S. Lies and Deaths in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2020-02-11 07:44:45 by Ada
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Last December the Washington Post published secret Pentagon documents showing the official lies that have undergirded the U.S. war on Afghanistan for the past 18 years. The opening paragraph of the article puts the matter bluntly: “A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.” I can’t help but wonder whether Sgt. First Class Javier Gutierrez, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sgt. First Class Rey Rodriguez of Las ...
CIA mystery: Did Iran kill ‘Ayatollah Mike?’
Post Date: 2020-02-08 10:15:14 by Ada
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Nobody is talking after Michael D’Andrea, the CIA’s top Iran Mission Center chief, is allegedly killed in plane crash A USAF Bombardier E11A intelligence gathering jet was cruising over Afghanistan on a secret mission, transporting two crewmen and allegedly, a mysterious chain-smoking CIA operative, Michael D’Andrea — also known as Dark Prince and Ayatollah Mike — when something bad happened over a remote, mountainous region. Media reports on Iranian State television showed a crumpled, burning wreck — clearly there were no survivors. It also claimed that D’Andrea, chief of the CIA’s special Iran task force, which goes by the name Iran Mission ...
Former Air Force Drone Operator Speaks Out Against US Atrocities
Post Date: 2020-02-08 08:29:39 by Ada
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A former Air Force drone operator-turned-whistleblower is once again speaking out against the atrocities he committed while serving in a military he describes as "worse than the Nazis." Brandon Bryant was a sensor operator of USAF unmanned aerial drones from 2006 to 2011. His job was targeted killing – remotely firing missiles at targets 7,000 miles (11,000 km) away from an air-conditioned command center near Las Vegas, Nevada. During his Air Force tenure, Bryant says his squadron engaged 1,626 targets, including women and children. He estimates that he is personally responsible for the deaths of 13 people. Bryant told Britain’s Independent that he reached his ...
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 ...
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