A U.S. drone attack killed 30 pine nut farmers and wounded at least 40 others in Afghanistan Wednesday night, the latest killing of innocent civilians by American forces as the "war on terror" enters its 19th year.
Just after on Friday Pentagon leaders presented Trump with numerous "military options" for a response to Iran following last week's twin attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities, Iran has again put the US on notice that any "limited attack" will assuredly
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
This is a repost from March 19, 2018, prompted by Washington's insistence that Iran is responsible for the attack on the Saudi oil facility. Even if it were true, what business is it of Washington?
Following the early morning attack on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil processing facility--the largest oil processing plant in the world--and a similar drone attack at the Khurais oil field on Saturday, the neocon senator from South Carolina, Lindsey G
• http://endoftheamericandream.com by Michael Snyder
President Trump is using the phrase "locked and loaded" to describe our current stance toward Iran, and the big news networks appear to believe that some sort of U.S. military action could be imminent.
After Saturday's attacks on Saudi oil facilities, President Trump Tweeted that the US is "locked and loaded" and ready to do whatever Saudi Arabia deems appropriate to whoever the Saudis blame for the attack. Will Trump let the Saudis dictate when an
As President Trump warned that the US is "locked and loaded" to respond to the drone attack on Saudi Arabia's oil supply this past weekend, Senator Rand Paul warned that hitting Iran would be a "big mistake."
Update2: Despite US officials repeatedly over the weekend claiming they were "certain" attacks came from Iraqi soil, likely from Iran-backed militias acting as proxies, they've now changed their tune to line up behind the latest Saudi military assess
For a couple of decades I covered the military for various publications, as for example the Washington Times and Harper's, and wrote a military column for Universal Press Syndicate.
The War on Terror quickly became the greatest political sham of our lifetimes. Politicians exploited the 9/11 attacks to seize boundless power over Americans and much of the world.
"An operation in Gaza could happen at any moment, including four days before the elections." He immediately followed with the dubious assertion, "The date of the elections does not factor [into a decision to go to war]."
When Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev received his peace prize in 1990, the Nobel Prize committee declared that "the two mighty power blocs, have managed to abandon their life-threatening confrontation" and confidently expressed that "It is our hop
As the United States grieves on another anniversary of the terror attacks of 9/11, politicians and analysts discuss whether or not we are safer than we were in 2001. Despite the comparative evaluation, there have been clear signs that the United Stat
The U.S. military footprint in a client state becomes as permanent as if it were encased in concrete. Afghanistan is merely the latest arena in which that model is being used.
"We will be forced to open the gates. We cannot be forced to handle the burden alone," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Thursday while demanding that European countries give political support to his controversial 'safe zone' plan in n
"OFFICIAL SECRETS," WHICH opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles, is the best movie ever made about how the Iraq War happened. It's startlingly accurate, and because of that, it's equally inspiring, demoralizing, hopeful, and enraging. Ple
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric S. Margolis
After 18 years of war in Afghanistan– America's longest – US and Taliban negotiators are said to be close to an agreement that may see the withdrawal of many of the 14,000 US soldiers in that remote nation.
Two weeks ago we wrote that war on Yemen will soon end. The Saudis lost their ally, they lost the war and would have to sue for peace. They are now doing so. But their fighting in Yemen will continue until that country finds a new balance.
If they Chinese move into Hong Kong and enact Tiananmen Square 2.0, they face unquestionable condemnation from the international community and many crippling trade sanctions will occur.& war will follow.