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Trump's 'historic' military buildup vision has a money problem
Post Date: 2017-05-22 08:11:26 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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In February, President Trump told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference that his administration was working on a "massive" defense budget request. "Offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before," the president said. "It will be one of the greatest military buildups in American history." When the White House unveils the president's full 2018 defense budget on Tuesday, lawmakers, experts and industry will finally get to see how far it will move the country toward the much bigger military promised by Trump. That military would have about 75 more Navy ships, 65,000 more soldiers, hundreds more Air ...
Mattis: Going with Military Option to NK Would Be "tragic on unbelievable scale"
Post Date: 2017-05-22 07:59:23 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is not ready to give up on a diplomatic solution to North Korea. He told the press Friday that a military option would be "tragic on an unbelievable scale.”North Korea has defied all calls to rein in its nuclear and missile programs, even from China, its lone major ally, calling them legitimate self-defense. It has been working to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland, and experts say its test on Sunday of a new missile was another important step toward that aim. "We are going to continue to work the issue," Mattis told a Pentagon news conference. "If this goes to a military solution, ...
USS Ronald Reagan Moves To Korean Peninsula
Post Date: 2017-05-21 11:16:04 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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USS Ronald Reagan Moves To Korean Peninsula Notching it up one degree at a time. Via The Daily Mail:The US Navy is moving a second aircraft carrier to the Korean Peninsula amid growing tensions in the region. The USS Ronald Reagan is going to meet the strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson to conduct training exercises. The Reagan left from its homeport, Yokosuka, Japan, on Tuesday, just two days after North Korea launched a ballistic missile 500 miles into the Sea of Japan Sunday. The carrier had just finished maintenance and sea trials in its homeport before it set off for the Korean Peninsula, according to CNN. When it arrives, the Reagan will do training exercises and ensure it ...
Phony US Plan to Smash ISIS
Post Date: 2017-05-21 07:34:45 by Stephen Lendman
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Phony US Plan to Smash ISIS by Stephen Lendman Washington intends escalated Middle East aggression on the phony pretext of annihilating ISIS, supporting the scourge it claims to oppose, including al-Nusra and likeminded terrorist groups. On Friday, Defense Secretary Mattis’ announced “accelerated operation” to defeat ISIS was willful deception, saying: Trump “delegated authority to the right level to aggressively and in a timely manner move against enemy vulnerabilities.” “(H)e directed a tactical shift from shoving ISIS out of safe locations in an attrition fight to surrounding the enemy in their strongholds so we can annihilate ISIS. The intent is to ...
U.S.-Saudi Arabia Ink ‘Largest Single Arms Deal in American History’
Post Date: 2017-05-21 06:42:24 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Trump Admin Arming Saudis to Counter Iranian ThreatThe United States and Saudi Arabia have inked a $110 billion arms deal, the largest in American history, according to senior Trump administration officials who described the agreement as part of a major effort to counter Iranian threats in the region.The arms deal will see the U.S. providing Saudi Arabia with a "full spectrum of capabilities," including tanks, artillery, helicopters, armored carriers, combat ships, and an assortment of other advanced weapons systems, according to senior Trump administration officials working on the agreement.The massive arms package is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to boost ...
Inside The US Government’s Plan To Survive Nuclear War (While Millions Die)
Post Date: 2017-05-20 15:20:01 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Posted on May 20, 2017 Inside The US Government’s Plan To Survive Nuclear War (While Millions Die) Authored by Sadie Dingfelder, originally posted at The Washington Post, In 2011, a staffer at Washingtonian found a government ID in a Metro parking garage and gave it to Garrett M. Graff (the magazine’s editor-in-chief at the time) to track down its owner. “Since I reported about that world, he figured I’d know what to do with it,” Graff says. Graff immediately noticed something strange. “The back of the ID had these evacuation instructions on it. And so I got on Google Maps and followed the instructions and they led to a road that very clearly went into the ...
Why Washington Terror-Bombs Syria
Post Date: 2017-05-20 07:46:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Why Washington Terror-Bombs Syria by Stephen Lendman It’s all about wanting regime change, another imperial trophy, pro-Western puppet rule replacing legitimate governance, and preventing conflict resolution talks from going anywhere. It’s also about wanting the country balkanized, northern and southern border areas separated from Damascus, perhaps further divisions planned to destroy the Syrian Arab Republic as it now exists, eliminate an Israeli rival, isolate Iran, ahead of efforts to replace its sovereignty with pro-Western puppet rule. It’s about redrawing the Middle East map, leaving Israel the dominant power along with America’s presence - a sinister scheme ...
Pentagon an Eager Customer of Assassination Mini-Drones
Post Date: 2017-05-20 06:45:04 by Ada
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Tiny Drones Are Built for Suicide Missions Against 'High-Value' Targets Fighting umpteen wars around the world, the US special forces (SOCOM) is forever offering “urgent operational needs statements” for its various weapons. This newest one is a real eye-opener, as SOCOM is seeking 325 more Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems (LMAMS). LMAMS are not actually missiles so much as single-use drones, designed to be small, fast, and carry large explosive payloads. The drones are created with an eye toward assassination attacks against “high-value targets,” with US company AeroVironment, and some Israeli companies manufacturing various similar models. That SOCOM ...
AmericaÂ’s Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows
Post Date: 2017-05-19 21:09:28 by Ada
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“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” ― James Madison Who designed the malware worm that is now wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers internationally by hackers demanding a king’s ransom? The U.S. government. Who is the biggest black market buyer and stockpiler of cyberweapons (weaponized malware that can be used to hack into computer systems, spy on citizens, and destabilize vast computer networks)? The U.S. government. What country has one the deadliest arsenals of weapons of mass destruction? The U.S. government. Who is the largest weapons manufacturer and exporter in the world, such that ...
US Warplanes Attack Pro-Assad Forces in Southern Syria
Post Date: 2017-05-19 19:17:28 by Ada
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Accuses Forces of Getting Within 55 km of US Training Base US warplanes attacked a vehicle convoy in what they are describing as a “deescalation zone” near al-Tanf, identifying the targets are Pro-Assad forces, and destroying multiple vehicles. Casualty figures are as of yet unknown, and the US is claiming the attack was “defensive in nature.” A number of questions are unclear, as the US is identifying the targets as “Assad forces” or “regime vehicles,” but some media reports identify them as simply Shi’ite militias. The deescalation zone appears to refer to the southern safe zone in Syria, around Daraa. That’s confusing, however, ...
Heading for War on Russia
Post Date: 2017-05-19 08:13:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Heading for War on Russia by Stephen Lendman America’s imperial agenda threatens world peace. Its bases surrounding Russia and China are platforms for aggressive wars - likely nuclear if launched against one or both countries. Dangerous flashpoints exist along their borders, in Syria, Ukraine, the Korean peninsula and elsewhere. America’s megalomaniacal rage for dominance is humanity’s greatest menace, nuclear war almost certain if its madness isn’t curbed - a slim chance with neocons infesting Washington, thriving on endless aggression, deploring peace and stability. America’s imperial agenda should terrify everyone, a permanent war policy targeting all ...
US Undermining Conflict Resolution in Syria
Post Date: 2017-05-19 07:59:39 by Stephen Lendman
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US Undermining Conflict Resolution in Syria by Stephen Lendman Neocons infesting Washington represent the greatest threat to world peace. They want endless wars waged, all independent governments toppled, US-controlled puppet regimes replacing them, enemies invented to assure aggression without end - feeding America’s ravenous war machine. Russia has no partner in Washington politically, economically or militarily, no prospect for any US administration cooperating to restore peace in Syria or other war-torn countries. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blasted the fabricated State Department report, claiming mass executions in Syrian prisons along with bodies ...
Revving Up Lost Afghan War Coming?
Post Date: 2017-05-18 13:02:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Revving Up Lost Afghan War Coming? by Stephen Lendman America’s longest war was lost years ago, privately acknowledged, yet US combat operations continue, escalation likely coming. According to Bloomberg, Trump’s military and national security advisors recommend deploying an additional 50,000 troops, “according to a classified US intelligence community assessment.” It’s partly about propping up Kabul’s puppet regime, mostly to continue endless war, unwilling to acknowledge a long ago lost cause. Surge, if ordered, assures greater mass slaughter and destruction than already, no possible chance of winning a lost war, just waging it endlessly. According to ...
The War on Yemen and Trump’s Foreign Trip
Post Date: 2017-05-16 13:51:57 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Describing Trump’s agenda for his first foreign trip, his National Security Advisor recently said this: “He [Trump] will encourage our Arab and Muslim partners to take bold, new steps to promote peace and to confront those, from ISIS to al-Qaida to Iran to the Assad regime, who perpetuate chaos and violence that has inflicted so much suffering throughout the Muslim world and beyond,” McMaster said. McMaster’s description is hard to take seriously for a few reasons. First, the Saudis and their allies are busily perpetuating chaos and violence in Yemen, and some of them have been responsible for doing the same in Syria for years. These states have no problem perpetuating ...
Congress Should Just Say No to Trump’s Afghanistan Surge
Post Date: 2017-05-16 08:25:26 by Ada
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With the US occupation of Afghanistan well into its sixteenth year and the country no closer to becoming a stable democracy than it was in late 2001, Antiwar.com reports that this isn’t an “all options are on the table” scenario. President Donald Trump seems to have rejected the idea of withdrawing US troops and ending the war. Instead, he intends to become the third president in a row to roll the dice on a “surge” – that is, to send in more troops (the initial estimate is anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 more in addition to the current 8,400) and hope for the best. That idea has never worked before and it’s not going to magically start working now. If ...
What's next....gas chambers ??
Post Date: 2017-05-15 17:07:39 by Rube Goldberg
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High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our T&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. https://www.ft.com/content/28a693d0-399b-11e7-821a-6027b8a20f23 The US believes the Syrian government has built a crematorium to dispose of bodies at a military prison outside the capital Damascus where prisoners are being killed at a rate of up to 50 a day. Stuart Jones, acting assistant secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, who attended Russian-brokered peace talks at Astana this month, presented photographic documentation on ...
Top NSA Whistleblower: Ransomware Hack Due to “Swindle of the Taxpayers” by Intelligence Agencies
Post Date: 2017-05-15 09:19:13 by Ada
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What should we make of the global ransomware attacks which happened today? We’ve documented that the intelligence services intentionally create digital vulnerabilities, then intentionally leave them open … leaving us exposed and insecure. Washington’s Blog asked the highest level NSA whistleblower ever* – Bill Binney – what he thinks of the attacks. Binney told us: This is what I called short sighted finite thinking on the part of the Intelligence Community managers. This is also what I called (for some years now) a swindle of the tax payers. First, they find or create weaknesses then they don’t fix these weaknesses so we are all vulnerable to attack. ...
President Trump: Toss Your Generals’ War Escalation Plans in the Trash
Post Date: 2017-05-15 07:41:12 by Ada
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By the end of this month, Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Advisor HR McMaster will deliver to President Trump their plans for military escalations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. President Trump would be wise to rip the plans up and send his national security team back to the drawing board – or replace them. There is no way another “surge” in Afghanistan and Iraq (plus a new one in Syria) puts America first. There is no way doing the same thing over again will succeed any better than it did the last time. Near the tenth anniversary of the US war on Afghanistan – seven years ago – I went to the Floor of Congress to point out that the war makes ...
The Decade-Long U.S. Campaign to Foment Syria’s “Revolution” and Unseat Assad
Post Date: 2017-05-13 09:41:20 by Ada
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Though many trace the beginning of the ongoing conflict in Syria back to the Arab Spring protests of 2011, the seeds of war were sown as early as 2001, when the U.S. decided to declare Syria an enemy. The events that followed would send the country into a violent downward spiral. President Bush gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002. Bush fleshed out his vision for the war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan, to a dozen countries that he said harbor terrorists and "an axis of evil" of three more that seek weapons of mass destruction, including Syria. (AP/J.Scott Applewhite) President Bush gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill ...
NYT Op-Ed Opposes De-Escalation in Syria
Post Date: 2017-05-13 07:14:25 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Op-Ed Opposes De-Escalation in Syria by Stephen Lendman The Times and its contributors support imperial lawlessness - endless wars for transforming all sovereign independent states into US vassal ones, no matter the human cost. A May 12 Times op-ed headlined “Trump Should Be Wary of Putin’s Syria Plan,” saying: He’s not “leading…(He’s) following in Moscow’s wake. Mr. Putin’s plan of de-escalation, if accepted, would enhance Iran’s regional role and consolidate the regime of Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the very outcomes administration spokesmen have said they were trying to avoid.” Fact: Syria was invaded by US-recruited, armed, ...
UK Defense Secretary Calls Terror-Bombing Yemen Saudi Self-Defense
Post Date: 2017-05-12 08:17:34 by Stephen Lendman
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UK Defense Secretary Calls Terror-Bombing Yemen Saudi Self-Defense by Stephen Lendman Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. America has been drone-bombing Yemen since the Bush/Cheney years, largely killing defenseless civilians, yet media scoundrels ignore it. In March 2015, Obama launched preemptive war on the country without declaring it, conspiring with Saudi Arabia, creating a humanitarian disaster, at least 80% of the population affected - hundreds of thousands at risk of starvation, dying from preventable diseases or perishing from Riyadh terror-bombing. Media scoundrels largely abstain from covering a raging holocaust instead of condemning it. As long as they’re ...
Assad: Syria Combating Terrorists and Foreign Backers
Post Date: 2017-05-12 08:01:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Assad: Syria Combating Terrorists and Foreign Backers by Stephen Lendman Rogue states wanting Assad ousted and Syrian sovereignty destroyed include America, NATO, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and their allies - partners in high crimes against peace. Interviewed by Belarus’ ONT News Agency, Assad blasted foreign regimes supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria - all with a common thread, he said, representing “extremist Wahhabi ideology.” “And all of them are instruments in the hands of the United States” - Obama and now Trump waging war on his country. “…Western Europe doesn’t practically exist on the political map. Europe implements ...
Philippine forces call Beijing’s bluff in South China Sea
Post Date: 2017-05-11 11:25:57 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Buildings are seen Friday on the Philippines-controlled Thitu Island, also known as Pagasa, in the Spratly chain of islands in the disputed South China Sea. | REUTERSThe Philippines has begun moving military forces to the disputed Pag-asa Island in the South China Sea(WASHINGTON, DC) Pag-asa Island is claimed by both Manila and Beijing and according to a Philippine general the pacific U.S. ally has plan to build infrastructure and lengthen the airstrip on the island.The troops and initial supplies arrived at Pag-asa Island last week, Lt. Gen. Raul del Rosario, head of the Philippine military's Western Command, said as quoted by AP.Some 1.6 billion pesos (US$32 million) has been set ...
U.S. Military to Move ‘Very Quickly’ in Arming Syrian Kurds Despite Turkish Opposition
Post Date: 2017-05-11 09:10:10 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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U.S. forces, accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters, drive their armoured vehicles near the northern Syrian village of Darbasiyah, on the border with Turkey / Getty Images The U.S. military will move forward "very quickly" with plans to distribute weapons and ammunition to Kurdish YPG fighters battling the Islamic State in Syria despite opposition from NATO ally Turkey, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. "We've got a certain amount of supply in the country already that was used to equip the Syrian Arab Coalition and some of that may be distributed very quickly," Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, ...
Trump Approves Heavy Weapons for Kurds, Afghanistan Surge Likely
Post Date: 2017-05-10 07:23:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Approves Heavy Weapons for Kurds, Afghanistan Surge Likely by Stephen Lendman Trump straightaway in office proved his noninterventionist campaign promises were baloney! He escalated Bush/Cheney/Obama wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, threatens possible nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, dashed hoped for improved relations with Russia, and likely intends sending thousands more combat troops to Afghanistan - America’s longest war, lost years ago. No increased US troop strength can change things. America’s presence is the root cause of raping and destroying the country, devastating long-suffering Afghans - ruled by illegitimate pro-Western puppet governance. Trump abdicated ...
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