(ANTIWAR.COM) — The Pentagon announced on Friday that they have indefinitely suspended a number of additional war games with South Korea. The US agreed to such suspensions as part of the Trump-Kim summit deal. The Pentagon has been slowly suspending planned exercises since the summit, and this new announcement covers everything scheduled for the next three months. This includes the […]
(ZHE Op-ed) — Someone finally asked Obama administration officials to own up to the rise of ISIS and arming jihadists in Syria. In a wide ranging interview titled “Confronting the Consequences of Obama’s Foreign Policy” The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan put the question to Ben Rhodes, who served as longtime deputy national security adviser at the White House under Obama and is now promoting his […]
(CJ Opinion) — I have been saying all year that the 8chan phenomenon known as “QAnon” is bogus, and as time has gone on the evidence has become overwhelming that it is an establishment psyop designed to herd the populist right into accepting the narratives and agendas of the establishment orthodoxy. Whether they’re claiming that every capitulation the Trump administration makes to […]
The U.S. Congress has power over two very important things: money and information.
It can, in theory, and practice, end a war by refusing to fund it. It can — and has — compelled the leading architects of American foreign policy — CIA directors, national security advisors, secretaries of defense — to answer for their uses and abuses of executive power publicly and under oath.
(ANTIWAR.COM) — In an official letter sent to a large number of international human rights groups, US Ambassador Nikki Haley angrily attacked those organizations and said that their refusal to back US interests was a “contributing factor” in the US withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. This centers on an attempt in late 2017 to push for “reforms” […]
The numbers have long been a matter of dispute but, generally, experts believe that the United Nations’ blockade of Iraq between April of 1990 and August of 2003 was responsible for the deaths of more than a million Iraqis, roughly 567,000 of them children. This was no accident. Designed by the United States and the British for the ostensible reason of frustrating Saddam Hussein’s imperial ambitions, the UN committee charged with managing the sanctions seemed to focus an inordinate amount of attention on inflicting maximum damage to Iraq’s civilian population.
(ET) — Amnesty International released an explosive report last week, which described the US-led coalition’s disproportionate and indiscriminate war in Raqqa as the US-led “war of annihilation”. The report confirmed what some people have suspected for a while but few have dared to even talk about. Namely, that the United States and its allies have completely destroyed […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lt. Gen. Austin Scott Miller claimed that he was seeing “progress” in the US war in Afghanistan. He admitted, however, that 17 years of war “is a very long time.” Lt. Gen. Miller is nominated to be the latest in a long line of commanders for the occupation […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — A spokesman for US Centcom is denying any US coalition involvement in reported airstrikes against a Syrian military site along the Iraqi border. Details on the strike were still scant, but US officials say no airstrikes took place by any coalition members in the area. Syrian state media had reported that drones, presumably American, attacked the site […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — French newspaper Le Figaro is quoting unnamed French military sources as saying that French special forces have been deployed to Yemen. The troops are said to be present with Emirati troops on the ground. They did not specify where in Yemen. France’s Defense Ministry is not commenting specifically on the special forces report, but did deny […]
