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Pakistan Suspends Military And Intelligence Cooperation With US
Pakistan Suspends Military And Intelligence Cooperation With US In the wake of President Trump’s twitter outburst last week, alleging that Pakistan has given the U.S. “nothing but lies and deceit” accompanied by the suspension of US financial aid, Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan declared that military and intelligence cooperation with the United States are suspended, […]
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Lies We Tell Ourselves Pixabay Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. — A. E. Housman, 1859-1936 Seven of my soldiers are dead. Two committed suicide. Bombs got the others in Iraq and Afghanistan. One young man lost three limbs. Another is paralyzed. […]
China’s Xi Warns Military: Be Ready For War & “Don’t Fear Death”
China’s Xi Warns Military: Be Ready For War & “Don’t Fear Death” In what is being characterized as a rare address to the world’s largest fighting force, President Xi Jinping on January 04 urged the Chinese military to be ready for war and ‘don’t fear death’. As the beat of the war drums gets louder in East Asia and […]
Washington’s Wars
Washington’s Wars The New York Times reported on October 22 that the United States has “just over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least 172 countries and territories,” which is a staggering total. But in an intriguing revelation the Times reported that there are a further 37,813 troops deployed “on presumably secret assignment in places listed simply as ‘unknown.’ […]
War with Russia: Two Great American Myths
War with Russia: Two Great American Myths There are two myths which are deeply imprinted in the minds of most US Americans which are extremely dangerous and which can result in a war with Russia. The first myth is the myth of US military superiority. The second myth is the myth of US invulnerability. I […]
Heading Toward Nuclear War: Why?
Heading Toward Nuclear War: Why? That’s what I hold quite likely in case the present US administration under Donald Trump’s formal leadership continues down the path its in-fighting militarist fractions seem to have chosen. We’re in the worst, most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sitting down and hoping for the best is neither […]
Israel Begins “Largest-Ever Aerial Military Drill”, As Saudis Consider Missile Strike “Act Of War”
Israel Begins “Largest-Ever Aerial Military Drill”, As Saudis Consider Missile Strike “Act Of War” Today, Israel kicked off its largest international aerial training exercise ever – coined: Blue Flag 2017. Air-forces from nine countries with about 50 planes are now starting to drill in the most southern region of the country utilizing Uvda Air Base in Israel. […]
US Boosts Special Operations Forces Presence at Russia’s Border
US Boosts Special Operations Forces Presence at Russia’s Border The deployment of US Special Operations Forces in Europe is never in spotlight but it is rapidly increasing. There can be no other purpose than acquisition of capability to deliver strikes deep into Russia’s territory. The Trump administration is relying heavily on Special Operations Forces (SOF). They are deployed to […]
Bringing Back the Draft Won’t Stop Unnecessary Wars
Bringing Back the Draft Won’t Stop Unnecessary Wars Conscripting soldiers neither stops unnecessary wars nor makes the death toll more egalitarian. Every now and then the old argument that the draft should be reinstated pops back up. Most recently it appeared here at The American Conservative in a piece by Dennis Laich and Lawrence Wilkerson that contended America’s […]
Sweden, Submarines, and Propaganda
Sweden, Submarines, and Propaganda Sweden’s most recent military cooperation with the US-NATO military alliance involved hosting armed forces of the many countries which participated in Exercise Aurora in September. As noted by Euronews, “Sweden is undertaking its biggest military exercise amid fears of Russian military build up,” and NATO headquarters announced that “In the current […]
US Deploys Special Forces “Decapitation” Team To South Korea
US Deploys Special Forces “Decapitation” Team To South Korea Today, the South Korean and U.S. navies kicked off massive combined drills off the coast of the Korean peninsula amid heightened tensions, a training exercise which North Korea has warned may prompt another ballistic missile launch potentially to coincide with the launch of the Chinese 19th […]
NATO “Concerned by Russia’s Military Buildup Close to Our Borders”
NATO “Concerned by Russia’s Military Buildup Close to Our Borders” The Secretary-General of NATO said this on October 9th, speaking in NATO member Romania, right across the Black Sea from Russia’s region of Crimea (which had always been part of Russia except for the brief period 1954-2014, when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea to […]
Donald Trump: Warmonger-in-Chief!
Donald Trump: Warmonger-in-Chief! If a world conflagration, God forbid, should break out during the Trump Administration, its genesis will not be too hard to discover: the thin-skinned, immature, shallow, doofus which currently resides in the Oval Office! This past week, the Donald has continued his bellicose talk with both veiled and explicit threats against purported […]
Iran Threatens America: If New Sanctions Pass, US Military “Would Be At Risk”
Iran Threatens America: If New Sanctions Pass, US Military “Would Be At Risk” In the coming days, president Trump is expected to announce that he will decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal, a step that potentially could cause the historic Obama-era accord to unravel. Under the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to limit its disputed nuclear program […]
You’re On Your Own, by Robert Gore
You’re On Your Own, by Robert Gore ichef.bbci.co.uk If the world seems incomprehensible now, just wait. Within a twenty-four-hour span the Catalonian people voted 90 percent in favor of secession from Spain, despite the Spanish government’s effort to violently squelch the referendum, and a man in a Las Vegas hotel room opened fire on a concert, […]
