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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Cholera Rips Through War-Torn Yemen: Nears 500,000 Cases In 2019
Post Date: 2019-07-11 17:25:37 by Horse
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As the UAE announced this week it would withdraw its forces from Yemen as a longtime lead country in the Saudi coalition which has fought Houthi rebels since 2015, the United Nations issued a damning report on what it previously dubbed the "world's worst humanitarian crisis" and what many analysts have described as the "forgotten war," due to the little coverage it receives in the mainstream media. War-ravaged Yemen has seen more than than 460,000 suspected cholera cases so far this year, which is significantly higher that the total number for all of 2018, at 380,000 — the UN stated early this week. This as the over four-year long war is has reached casualty ...
June 2001 Bioterror Exercise Foreshadowed 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks
Post Date: 2019-07-10 08:33:31 by Ada
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Coincidence … Or Something More? On June 22-23, 2001 – some 3 months before 9/11, and 4 months before the Anthrax attacks – the U.S. military held a senior-level war game at Andrews Air Force Base called Dark Winter. The scenario of this bio-terrorism drill was designed to simulate a smallpox attack in three states. Numerous congressmen, former CIA director James Woolsey, New York Times reporter Judith Miller (who pushed the Iraq WMD myth, as well as the false link between Iraq and the Anthrax attacks), and anti-terror official Jerome Hauer all participated in the exercise. As a part of this war game, scripted TV news clips were made to help make this drill as realistic ...
US Carries Out Cyber-Attacks on Iran
Post Date: 2019-06-23 16:05:18 by Ada
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U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press on Saturday that the U.S. military launched cyber-attacks on Iran after the downing of an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone in Iranian airspace on Thursday. Two officials said the cyber-attacks were approved by President Trump, another official outlined the scope of the attacks. According to the officials, the cyber-attacks – a contingency plan developed over weeks amid escalating tensions – disabled Iranian computer systems that control its missile and rocket launchers. The attacks specifically targeted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC) computer system. Earlier in the year, the ...
A Winnable Nuclear War?
Post Date: 2019-06-21 08:08:35 by Ada
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New Pentagon document shows US military thinks so The Pentagon document laying out the US doctrine of nuclear operations was publicly available for about a week, then made ‘official use only.’ What’s inside is a chilling reminder that Washington sees nuclear war as winnable. “Nuclear Operations,” or Joint Publication 3-72, was dated on June 11 and made private since, but not before it was downloaded by Steven Aftergood, an activist at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). It is currently available on the FAS website as a PDF. The publication “provides fundamental principles and guidance to plan, execute, and assess nuclear operations.” The rest ...
Malware and the War on Russia
Post Date: 2019-06-16 21:25:41 by Ada
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Buried in their hubris and a false sense of superiority, the global elite actually believes they can roll over Russia and reduce it to a neoliberal vassal state. This illusion may soon result in war and the destruction of civilization. On Saturday, The New York Times reported the US Cyber Command “is reportedly going on offense against Russia’s power grid by placing ‘potentially crippling malware’ in its systems. Click for Full Text!
US Wipes Out Afghan Security Forces Unit in Major Friendly Fire Incident
Post Date: 2019-06-14 07:29:40 by Ada
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Second major friendly fire incident by US in Afghanistan in a month For the second time in less than a month, US forces carried out airstrikes “in self defense” in Afghanistan, only to discover that they were actually attacking Afghan security forces. The Wednesday strike ended up wiping out an entire unit, though officials have yet to disclose the exact number of deaths, beyond it apparently being everyone present. The previous attack saw US ground troops believing they were under fire, and the warplanes attacking police, killing 18. In this case, too, US officials said they believed the troops came under fire, and the airstrikes targeted the Afghan forces, who had been ...
In the Western Media Narrative, SAA-Targeted Underground Bunkers and Terrorist-Run Prisons Become “Hospitals”
Post Date: 2019-06-11 10:06:29 by Ada
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We should not allow ourselves to be collectively hypnotized into believing the media hype that would portray armed-group murderers as heroes, and the Syrian people and government struggling to expel them from their country as the villains. IDLIB PROVINCE, SYRIA (Report) — In recently liberated Qalaat Al Madiq — 500 meters from As Suqaylabiyah, a predominantly Christian town near Syria’s embattled Idlib province — the White Helmets, a controversial rescue group financed primarily by the U.K. Foreign Office, was found to have an established presence in a network of tunnels. The tunnels zigzagged under a former wheat factory that had since been converted into a ...
The Generals Won’t Save Us From the Next War
Post Date: 2019-06-10 06:50:37 by Ada
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The brass are careerists, never punished for their mistakes, quietly assenting to the latest doomed interventions. Poll after poll indicates that the only pubic institution Americans still trust is the military. Not Congress, not the presidency, not the Supreme Court, the church, or the media. Just the American war machine. But perhaps that faith in the U.S. Armed Forces is misplaced. I got to thinking about this recently after I wrote articles calling for dissent among military leaders in order to stop what seems to be a likely forthcoming war with Iran. While I still believe that dissent in the ranks stands the best chance of galvanizing an apathetic public against an ill-advised, ...
Whitewashing War Crimes Has Become the American Way
Post Date: 2019-06-08 05:35:55 by Ada
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Just after dawn on March 16, 1968, a company of U.S. Army infantrymen, led by Capt. Ernest Medina and spearheaded by Lt. William Calley, entered the small hamlet of My Lai in Quang Ngai province, South Vietnam. The villagers, mostly women and children, had no idea what was coming that day. If they had, they’d have fled. Despite facing zero resistance and finding only a few weapons, Calley ordered his men to execute the entire population. In all, some 500 Vietnamese civilians were executed, including more than 350 women, children and babies. Other senior leaders in the chain of command had advised the soldiers of Charlie Company that all people in the village should be considered ...
Times Square Terror Plot: Inspired by Bin Laden, Man Planned Bombing, Officials Say
Post Date: 2019-06-07 19:49:53 by BTP Holdings
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Times Square Terror Plot: Inspired by Bin Laden, Man Planned Bombing, Officials Say William K. Rashbaum and Michael Gold 38 mins ago © Provided by The New York Times Company Ashiqul Alam, 22, was charged Friday with purchasing firearms with obliterated serial numbers. Prosecutors said he aspired to be a terrorist. Around the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks last year, Ashiqul Alam voiced his admiration for their mastermind, Osama bin Laden, and said he wanted to carry on Bin Laden’s legacy of violent extremism, court documents said. “He did what he is supposed to do,” Mr. Alam, 22, said, according to a criminal complaint. “Now it’s up to us.” ...
Memorial Day
Post Date: 2019-05-27 12:27:44 by boonie rat
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Memorial Day Memorial Day is their day, isn't it? It is supposed to be the day a grateful nation pauses to quietly thank the more than one million men and women who have died in military service to their country since the Revolutionary War. Or is it the day the beach resorts kick into high gear for the summer season, the day the strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves in coconut oil, the day the off-season rates end and the weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a one hour wait. Or is is one of the biggest shopping center sales days of the year, a day when hunting for a parking space is the prime sport for the holiday ...
Trump's latest pardon is an implicit endorsement of war crimes
Post Date: 2019-05-12 08:24:37 by Ada
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In the spring of 2008, former Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna was in Iraq, where he and his platoon were charged with transporting for release a suspect named Ali Mansur Mohamed. Military intelligence thought Mansur was linked to a recent IED attack which killed two American soldiers, but, lacking evidence to tie him to terrorism after days of questioning, they had to let him go. Behenna did not find that satisfactory, and his platoon stopped at a bridge for some questioning of their own. With another soldier, Behenna blindfolded Mansur and cut off all his clothes with a knife. They removed his handcuffs. Then Behenna shot him twice, before allegedly ordering the other soldier to use a ...
He Helped Reveal How U.S. Drone Strikes Were Killing Innocents. The Feds Just Charged Him With Espionage.
Post Date: 2019-05-11 07:35:59 by Ada
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Another intelligence analyst who leaked important information to the public is treated like a traitor. A former Air Force intelligence officer has been arrested and charged with espionage for leaking information to the press detailing how the U.S. government uses armed drones for secret assassination missions in foreign countries. Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, was arrested this morning. According to the Justice Department, Hale, during his time in the Air Force as an intelligence analyst, and then later as a private sector employee of a defense contractor, passed along top secret documents to a reporter, some of which were published. The 2013-2014 timeframe during which this ...
A frustrated Trump questions his administration’s Venezuela strategy
Post Date: 2019-05-09 06:25:48 by noone222
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President Trump is questioning his administration’s aggressive strategy in Venezuela following the failure of a U.S.-backed effort to oust President Nicolás Maduro, complaining he was misled about how easy it would be to replace the socialist strongman with a young opposition figure, according to administration officials and White House advisers. The president’s dissatisfaction has crystallized around national security adviser John Bolton and what Trump has groused is an interventionist stance at odds with his view that the United States should stay out of foreign quagmires. Trump has said in recent days that Bolton wants to get him “into a war” — a comment ...
Venezuela - Forensics Of A Clownish Coup
Post Date: 2019-05-04 02:25:50 by hondo68
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Tuesdays clownish coup attempt in Venezuela failed. The Trump administration got snookered. It will have to either change its tactic or leave the issue alone. National Security Advisor John Bolton is pressing for a war on Venezuela. While the Pentagon and the countries neighboring Venezuela are against the use of military force, it is Bolton who has President Trump's ear. The planning for a war seems to progress fast. Lucas Tomlinson @LucasFoxNews - 00:18 utc- 3 May 2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton just left Pentagon following meeting with acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan in secure conference room known as ‘The Tank’ to ...
Federal Judge Orders That Guy They Arrested for Google Searches and Accused of Terrorism Released
Post Date: 2019-04-27 21:12:05 by Ada
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Arresting this guy as a terrorist for Google searches and draft emails he never sent was one of the craziest things I had ever seen. It looked as though they had created some kind of new law on the spot to charge him with planning terrorism based on the theory that maybe he could have been thinking about terrorism, theoretically. Basically, he had searched some terms in Google regarding where politicians live, how much security they have, etc., and had a draft email saying he would like to kill people (unspecific people). He also had a list of names of people he didn’t like. None of that is illegal. It does not in any way amount to a plan to commit terrorism. He had no records of a ...
NATO-Exit: Dismantle NATO, Close Down 800 US Military Bases, Prosecute the War Criminals
Post Date: 2019-04-10 12:03:29 by Ada
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This text prepared in the context of the April 7 2019 Florence International Conference: No War, No NATO will centre on the key relationship between US-NATO military operations directed against targeted countries and the imposition of far-reaching neoliberal economic reforms both before and in the wake of US-NATO military interventions. This article will also address the dangers and consequences of a Third World War as well the nature of advanced weapons systems deployed by the broader US-NATO coalition. Extensive war crimes have been committed by NATO member states. The object of the Florence Venue is NATO-EXIT. The Dismantling of NATO and the closure of US military bases. There is a ...
US to Designate Elite Iranian Force as Terrorist Organization
Post Date: 2019-04-06 23:45:01 by BTP Holdings
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US to Designate Elite Iranian Force as Terrorist Organization Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (AFP/Getty Images) Saturday, 06 April 2019 10:03 AM The United States is expected to designate Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps a foreign terrorist organization, three U.S. officials told Reuters, marking the first time Washington has formally labeled another country's military a terrorist group. The decision, which critics warn could open U.S. military and intelligence officials to similar actions by unfriendly governments abroad, is expected to be announced by the U.S. State Department, perhaps as early as Monday, the officials said. It has been rumored for years. ...
MCRD SAN DIEGO - YOUR FIRST 2 HOURS OF BOOT CAMP
Post Date: 2019-03-31 18:53:06 by BTP Holdings
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Poster Comment:Some guy called on land line me a few years back. He told me I was in the National Guard. I told him, "Nope." Then he said, "Then you worked for the National Guard." I said, "Not at all. Where are you getting your information?" When they get your name they think they know everything about you.
REVEALED: US training ISIS militants at Al-Tanf to attack Syrian oil fields
Post Date: 2019-03-27 18:07:39 by Horse
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DAMASCUS – According to sources in the Syrian government army, several thousand militants of the Islamic State (outlawed in Russia), who previously surrendered outside the settlement of al-Baguz on the eastern bank of the Euphrates, were transported to the At-Tanf zone through the territories of Iraq and Jordan under the American escort. Those were mostly people from local tribes dwelling in the Syrian and Iraqi territories. Their families and relatives were sent as hostages to Al-Hol camp in Al-Hasakah province. Most militants were sent to training camps that account for at as many as ten in the American-occupied territory. There are representatives of the group known as ...
Why Would the U.S. Win Any War?
Post Date: 2019-03-25 13:31:57 by Ada
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“War serves only the warlords and the graveyards!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan The term “unwinnable war” is a strange and ambiguous notion used most often to describe fake reasoning for not winning a war. This seems absurd to me, and at the same time insincere. Lately, I have heard this term used often in personal correspondence sent to me, and in the published writings of others concerning past wars. Mainly ex-soldiers, politicians, and other purveyors of war use this term in order to shield themselves from the shame of losing. But was the real intent ever to win? After the fact, the unwinnable war theory always seems to surface, as if war should not be fought if ...
Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
Post Date: 2019-03-24 08:27:40 by Ada
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This month marks the 20th anniversary of Operation Allied Force, NATO’s 78-day air war against Yugoslavia. It was a war waged as much against Serbian civilians – hundreds of whom perished – as it was against Slobodan Miloševi’s forces, and it was a campaign of breathtaking hypocrisy and selective outrage. More than anything, it was a war that by President Bill Clinton’s own admission was fought for the sake of NATO’s credibility. One Man’s Terrorist… Our story begins not in the war-torn Balkans of the 1990s but rather in the howling wilderness of Afghanistan at the end of the 1980s as defeated Soviet invaders withdrew from a decade of ...
Why did Bush go to war in Iraq?
Post Date: 2019-03-21 08:46:11 by Ada
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No, it wasn't because of WMDs, democracy or Iraqi oil. The real reason is much more sinister than that. Sixteen years after the United States invaded Iraq and left a trail of destruction and chaos in the country and the region, one aspect of the war remains criminally underexamined: why was it fought in the first place? What did the Bush administration hope to get out of the war? The official, and widely-accepted, story remains that Washington was motivated by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programme. His nuclear capabilities, especially, were deemed sufficiently alarming to incite the war. As then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "We do ...
The US Quietly Negotiates ‘Peace with Honor’ in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2019-03-10 08:25:31 by Ada
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As the US government turns its back on Afghanistan, count on the paladins of national security quickly forgetting all that occurred there and moving on by It now becomes increasingly clear that the official rationale for initiating the Afghanistan War was bogus from the very outset. (Photo: DVIDSHUB/flickr/cc) A friend of mine, a veteran of America’s 21st-century wars in the Greater Middle East, recently sent along his most recent commentary on Afghanistan. It would be his last, he said. “I’m done writing on how we got here — at this point I’ve said my piece, and I’m tired of being angry.” He’s moving on. I can’t say that I blame him. A ...
Great Song! Favorite Cossack Ballad About Love and War, 'Not For Me - Ne Dlya Menya' (Video)
Post Date: 2019-03-05 11:27:47 by Ada
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The most famous Cossack song, sung at dinners, concerts and campfires This article from our archives was first published on RI in June 2018 This article originally appeared on a new site about the Christian renaissance in Russia, called Russian Faith. Their introductory video is at end of this article. There's something dashing and soulful about Russian folk music, especially when it originates with the Cossacks, Russia's warriors of the steppe. This is perhaps the most famous Cossack song, sung at dinners, concerts and campfires. It's a song about a love that is always just out of reach, a strange mix of longing and recklessness. Listen to it. You won't regret it. ...
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