al-Qaeda

Many have expressed their shock and horror that the a ‘documentary’ on the White Helmets organisation has won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

By Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice | February 21, 2017 The Netflix movie The White Helmets may win an Oscar in the “short documentary” category at the Academy Awards on Sunday February 26.  It will not be a surprise, despite the fact that the group is a fraud and the movie is a contrived infomercial. […]

By Ron Paul | February 20, 2017 Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military actions, diplomatic actions, partners, strategies, and how […]

(ANTIMEDIA) The U.S. Defense Department is considering proposing that the U.S. send conventional ground combat forces into northern Syria for the first time to hasten the fight against ISIS, according to CNN.
“It’s possible that you may see conventional forces hit the ground in Syria for some period of time,” one defense official told CNN.

You couldn’t really get a better – or more tragic – illustration than this of the continuity of agenda when it comes to US foreign policy and of how it doesn’t actually matter what administration happens to be in the White House. It’s all about perspective, of course: but if you’re a child in Yemen, […]

(ANTIWAR) While the US is still insisting there is “no evidence” of any civilians killed in Friday’s attacks on the Helmand Province, the United Nations has conducted a preliminary assessment, and found at least 18 civilians killed in the US airstrikes, overwhelmingly women and children.

ISIS and their followers are first and foremost a human tragedy. They are despicable death cults which kill in the most barbaric ways imaginable. They enslave people, rape women and children, and degrade the most fundamental elements of human dignity.
But beyond this, ISIS and Al-Qaeda are also a plague to culture. These terrorists do not resist destroying ancient monuments, artifacts, sculptures, paintings, musical instruments and have frequently attacked people for the ‘crime’ of watching football matches.

(ANTIWAR) The deployment of US ground troops into the Helmand Province in recent weeks, aimed at slowing the expansion of the Taliban in the area, has also put the US troops back in direct combat, and calling in air support during fights around populated areas. On Friday, this resulted in a large number of civilian deaths.

(ZHE) U.S. Special Operations Command launched a raid in Yemen’s Baida Province on Jan 29, targeting Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The first high-profile special forces operation of Trump’s presidency, the raid resulted in the deaths of at least 14 Al Qaeda fighters, 20 civilians and Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens. Three other Americans were reportedly wounded and an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft was destroyed by U.S.

President Trump and Senator John McCain continue to ramp up their media war, after Senator McCain called the US President’s raid in Yemen a failure.
The Yemen raid left one Navy SEAL and a number of civilians dead.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the raid was a success, and anyone critical of it was doing a disservice to the fallen SEAL.