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Latest Articles: War, War, War
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 ...
Iran rejects 'ridiculous' Israeli claim on downing Iranian drone
Post Date: 2018-02-10 23:41:22 by Tatarewicz
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PressTv Iran has rejected as "ridiculous" claims by the Israeli regime that it had intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria, stressing the Islamic Republic's military advisory presence in the Arab country is at the request of Syria’s "constitutional and legitimate" government. "Claims about the flight of an Iranian drone … are too ridiculous to be addressed because the Islamic Republic of Iran has advisory presence in Syria at the request of the country's legitimate and constitutional government," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday. "The government and army of Syria as an independent country ...
Syria Downs Israeli F-16 Attacking Its Homs Airbase
Post Date: 2018-02-10 09:05:44 by Ada
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The downing may have resulted from a well-laid Syrian army trap Israel has confirmed the loss. The two pilots ejected over northern Israel, one of them is severely wounded, CNN: Both pilots aboard the Israeli jet are safe, the Israeli army said, although one pilot was severely injured as a result of an emergency evacuation from the plane. The downing of the F-16 may have resulted from a well-laid trap. Earlier in the day an Iranian-made drone crossed over into Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel shot down the drone, but also predictably launched attacks against targets just to the west of Damascus, deep in Syrian territory. Once the Israeli bomber group reached their target they ...
Syria shoots down Israeli F-16 jet, pilots eject
Post Date: 2018-02-10 05:57:12 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The Syrian military has hit at least one Israeli F-16 warplane that attacked positions inside Syrian territory, with its two pilots ejecting out. Syrian state TV cited a Syrian military official as saying that Syrian aerial defense had responded to Israeli “aggression” against an army base in central Syria. The official said more than one Israeli aircraft had been hit. At least one Israeli F-16 was hit it, going down in flames and smoke. The Israeli military confirmed that the warplane had gone down in northern Israel, and that the two pilots had been transferred to hospital. This file photo shows a Syrian aerial defense system firing a missile. The Israeli ...
Syria urges UN to condemn US 'massacre' in Dayr al-Zawr
Post Date: 2018-02-09 05:13:11 by Tatarewicz
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Damascus has strongly denounced as a “war crime” a deadly strike carried out by the US-led military coalition against pro-government forces in Syria's eastern Dayr al-Zawr province, saying US presence in the country is "illegitimate." The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the strike in two separate letters sent to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the rotating president of the UN Security Council on Thursday, saying the air raid was “a crime against humanity.” It further lambasted Washington for using “the excuse of fighting terrorism to set up illegitimate bases on Syrian territory.” The US military said late ...
If There’s a War in Korea, Blame Trump
Post Date: 2018-02-08 08:42:31 by Ada
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Brainwashed Americans believe that Kim Jong-un is responsible for the confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington, but nothing could be further from the truth. The real problem is not Kim’s nuclear weapons but Washington’s 65 year-long military occupation that continues to reinforce a political solution that was arbitrarily imposed on a sovereign nation in order to split the country in two, install a puppet regime in the south, establish a permanent military presence to defend US commercial interests, and maintain control of a strategically-located territory that is a critical part of Washington’s plan to encircle Russia and China to remain the dominant global power ...
US Warplanes Bomb Pro-Govt Forces in Eastern Syria
Post Date: 2018-02-08 08:04:28 by Ada
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US Forces Claim Strike Was 'In Self-Defense' US coalition forces have issued a statement on Wednesday confirming a series of US airstrikes against Syrian pro-government forces along the Euphrates River. The statement insisted that the attacks were in “self-defense.” The statement was very light on details, but accused pro-Syrian forces of attacking the “headquarters” of the Syrian Defense Forces, where US troops were stationed. No casualties apparently happened, but this was enough to launch a series of airstrikes against nearby forces. It’s not clear who the US forces attacked, or what casualties, if any, were inflicted. Iranian forces are known to be ...
Syrian Air Defense Units Intercept Israeli Missiles in Damascus
Post Date: 2018-02-07 06:12:13 by Tatarewicz
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fna.ir/a3vpte ... TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army air defense units on Wednesday morning confronted another Israeli air missile attack on a military position in Damascus province. The General Command of the Syrian Army said in a statement said that warplanes of the Israeli enemy on 3:42 am on Wednesday fired several missiles from inside the Lebanese territories on one of our military positions in Damascus Countryside, and the air defense intercepted the missiles and destroyed most of them, SANA reported. The statement added that the outrageous aggression comes in framework of the desperate and repeated attempts to raise the morale of the terrorist organizations which are collapsing in all ...
The War That Never Ends (For the U.S. Military High Command)
Post Date: 2018-02-05 06:29:43 by Ada
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And It’s Not the War on Terror Vietnam: it’s always there. Looming in the past, informing American futures. A 50-year-old war, once labeled the longest in our history, is still alive and well and still being refought by one group of Americans: the military high command. And almost half a century later, they’re still losing it and blaming others for doing so. Of course, the U.S. military and Washington policymakers lost the war in Vietnam in the previous century and perhaps it’s well that they did. The United States really had no business intervening in that anti-colonial civil war in the first place, supporting a South Vietnamese government of questionable ...
Current Syria summary
Post Date: 2018-02-04 06:12:09 by Tatarewicz
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ERDOGHAN AGONISTES; THE REIGN OF THE DYSFUNCTIONAL TYRANT; ASSAD PROTAGONISTES WAITS ON THE FENCE Erdoghan has ordered the arrest of over 300 Turks because they had the temerity to question his campaign against the Kurds of Northern Syria and their chief benefactor, the United States. Railing against a group of medical doctors who were summarily arrested four evenings ago by his thugs, Erdoghan blasted their treason. They are now lounging in jail awaiting indictments. Trump, who probably doesn’t know where Turkey is, much less what is going on, supposedly called Erdoghan to urge him to be “cautious”. That Erdoghan has threatened to move his military campaign to the town ...
Syria: Russian missiles strike area of Su-25 downing, killing at least 30 terrorists
Post Date: 2018-02-04 01:13:38 by Tatarewicz
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PressTv Russian airstrikes hit a militant-held targets, on Saturday, in the area of Idlib province where a Russian Su-25 aircraft had crashed earlier in the day, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Defence Ministry added that according to radio intercepts, more than 30 terrorists were killed in the strikes. A Russian Su-25 jet crashed in Idlib province in north-western Syria on Saturday, the Russian Defence Ministry confirmed, adding that it was probably shot down by an air-defense weapon. The pilot ejected but was killed by militants on the ground, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Poster Comment:[Fleecing Rabbi] Fleecing Rabbi> John Francis Scully5 hours ago ...
Where do Yemeni missiles come from?
Post Date: 2018-02-01 04:14:46 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Saudi Arabia’s brutal military aggression against Yemen has taken quite a few drastic turns ever since its beginning in March 2015. The deadly war has seen Saudis use illegal weapons such as cluster bombs over populated areas without any raised eyebrows in the West. The war has also seen the Riyadh regime’s allies such as the US and the UK ramp up their arms deals with the monarchy despite international outcry. All of this, however, has been overshadowed by one question the answer to which has so far defied observers: How did Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters lay their hands on ballistic missiles? How did the militiamen acquire the know-how to maintain, launch and even ...
Syria, Turkey, Russia positions
Post Date: 2018-01-30 08:12:40 by Tatarewicz
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syrpers... Canthama I know some Syrpers follow the Syrian Arab Army FB page (which does not represent the SAA directly but it is made of ex SAA and current ones, meaning they do have intel that many do not have and they do represent the overall opinion of the SAA officers and soldiers www.facebook.com/syrianmilitary ). Having said that, I do respect their opinions, always balanced, to the point and no political BS. Their view below is crispy and tells the pulse of the Syrian Military regarding Afrin and all land occupied by the SDF. strongly recommend to read it, they measured very well their words used below, but it is crystal clear. “A long post regarding the situation in Afrin, ...
Tillerson Lays the Ground for Endless War in Syria
Post Date: 2018-01-30 06:27:30 by Ada
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Washington still thinks it's calling the shots—and we'll fight forever to prove it. Speaking at the Hoover Institute, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out the Trump administration’s vision for “a stable, unified, and independent Syria, free of terrorist threats and free of weapons of mass destruction.” Such a vision sounds a lot like what previous administrations said about Iraq and Afghanistan, which should be cause for worry. Afghanistan has become America’s longest running war and we still have troops in Iraq more than a decade after what some war supporters said would be a “cakewalk.” Moreover, a long-term U.S. military presence in both ...
Official: Kurds Want Negotiations with Damascus
Post Date: 2018-01-25 05:14:35 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Kurdish official said that the Kurds are now seeking negotiations with Damascus as they resist against Turkey's attacks. "Turkey has deepened the crisis in Syria and supported terrorism financially. When it failed in its policies, it sent its army to launch attack against Afrin," Fouzeh Yousef, the head of the executive board of democratic federalism in Northern Syria, was quoted as saying by the Arabic-language al-Akhbar newspaper on Wednesday. He stressed that the Kurds will stand against Turkey's attacks and occupation of Afrin, noting, "The Syrian Kurds want negotiations with the Syrian government but consider federalism as a better ...
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