Posted on August 18, 2017 by stephen-lendman
America came to Iraq to stay, intending permanent occupation – at least as long as the country remains one of the world’s major oil producers, the curse harming its people grievously. The Pentagon currently has numerous bases in Iraq of varying sizes – including Main Operating Bases (MOBs), smaller Forward Operation Sites (FOSs), and Cooperative ...
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Posted on May 16, 2017 by guest-post
By: Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com | Sale Will Include 165 Patriot Missiles. The Pentagon has issued a statement confirming that the US State Department has signed off on a $2 billion sale of US-made Patriot missiles to the United Arab Emirates, adding to the tiny Gulf nation’s ever growing military arsenal. The sale includes 65 PAC-3 ...
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Posted on May 9, 2017 by stephen-lendman
No nations threaten America, not Russia, North Korea or any others. Claims otherwise are Big Lies – a pretext for increased military spending along with fear-mongering to enlist public support. Last Tuesday, NATO commander US General Curtis Scaparrotti said he needs more funding for an increased longterm military buildup in Europe. He wants an additional ...
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Posted on April 19, 2017 by the-sleuth-journal
By: Anna Jaunger, Syria Media Center | For the past months, Washington has faced the urgent need to distract the world’s attention from its devastating failure in Mosul in order to hide the huge number of casualties among the local population. Perhaps, this became one of the main reasons for carrying out a new ...
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Posted on April 11, 2017 by stephen-lendman
America and its rogue allies consistently blame others for their high crimes. Media scoundrels support the deception, acting as willing co-conspirators. On April 7, AP News tweeted: “BREAKING: Senior US military officials say Pentagon looking into whether Russia participated in Syrian chemical weapons attack.” A same-day article reported the same thing, saying “a revelation (of ...
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Posted on April 1, 2017 by stephen-lendman
Yemen is Obama’s war, now Trump’s, complicit with Saudi terror-bombing, massacring civilians indiscriminately, causing vast destruction, human suffering and starvation. A previous article explained millions of Yemenis face slow, painful deaths from lack of food needed to survive, blockaded coastal areas preventing it from entering the country. Amounts airlifted in are woefully inadequate. Media scoundrels ...
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Posted on March 17, 2017 by guest-post
By: Ben Sullivan, Motherboard | President Trump is widening the CIA’s remit on targeted killing. Last November, Motherboard asked how President Trump would handle the legacy of his predecessor’s drone program. Much was unclear, but four months later, we have our answer: America’s remote killing strategy is only intensifying. Trump has given unprecedented power to the ...
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Posted on March 8, 2017 by stephen-lendman
House Armed Services Committee chairman Mac Thornberry (R. TX), his Senate counterpart John McCain (R. AZ), and likely most other congressional hawks want more defense spending than Trump proposed – his sought increase more than 80% of what Russia spent last year, reported by RT. He wants already bloated spending for militarism increased by $54 ...
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Posted on March 7, 2017 by stephen-lendman
America created and supports ISIS. So do NATO, Israel and other regional rogue states. It’s heavy weapons and other material support don’t materialize out of thin air. They come from foreign backers, including by US airdrops. Trump’s stated intention to defeat ISIS so far is just political bluster. In 2014, Obama promised the same thing, ...
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Posted on February 25, 2017 by stephen-lendman
America uses banned depleted uranium (DU) weapons in all its wars, ongoing since first developed during the Vietnam era. The 1925 Geneva Protocol and succeeding Geneva Weapons Conventions prohibited use of chemical and biological agents in any form as weapons of war. Although no Geneva Convention or other treaty specifically bans radioactive uranium weapons, including ...
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Posted on February 17, 2017 by guest-post
By: John W. Whitehead, Rutherford.org | “Our current and past strategies can no longer hold. We are facing environments that the masters of war never foresaw. We are facing a threat that requires us to redefine doctrine and the force in radically new and different ways. The future army will confront a highly sophisticated urban-centric ...
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Posted on January 19, 2017 by guest-post
By: Vandita, anonhq.com | Some of the top ranking defense personnel, intelligence analysts, and federal law enforcement officers in the United States are pedophiles who access and download child porn on their work and home computers. They not only compromise the nation’s security and drive the country into greater humiliation and disgrace; they put ...
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Posted on November 15, 2016 by stephen-lendman
According to the Washington Post, Obama “ordered the Pentagon to find and kill the leaders of an al-Qaeda-linked group, Al-Nusra in Syria that the administration had largely ignored until now and that has been at the vanguard of the fight against the Syrian government, (unnamed) US officials said. Fact: His war on ISIS is phony. ...
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Posted on October 13, 2016 by the-sleuth-journal
In this week’s episode of The Geopolitical Report with Kurt Nimmo, we examine a recent revelation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on a Pentagon psychological operation in Iraq following the 2003 invasion by the United States. From there we look at how the CIA spawned its Operation Mockingbird and the ongoing effort by the ...
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Posted on October 11, 2016 by lhaven
Tensions with Russia are rising as Russia has been officially blamed for the DNC hacks via a press release memo put out by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence. To add fuel to the fire, the US Army Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, has just announced that a leading Russian official has ...
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