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US and British meddling transformed Somalia’s al-Shabaab into an extremist group, inflaming the humanitarian crisis that persists throughout the country. This July, the Biden administration picked up where Trump left off and began bombing Somalia, a country with a gross domestic product of less than $6 billion and a poverty rate of 70 percent. But why? The official reason provided by the Pentagon was that the Somali National Army needed air support in its operations to counter al-Shabaab. But the […]

Antiwar.com | Looking like yet another US assassination of a foreign leader.

Brian Berletic | China has transformed from a developing nation to one rivalling the US - and now being poised to surpass the West as the dominant hegemon.

Brian Berletic | Washington is back to its old games again - trying to stir-up sectarian division in the Middle East and gradual stoke the flames of conflict with Iran.

SUNDAY SCREENING | Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE. 

by Mandy Smithberger & William D. Hartung President Biden’s first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any reasonable standard.  At more than $750 billion for the Defense Department and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy, it represents one of the highest levels of spending since World War II — far higher than the peaks of the Korean[Read More...]

Modern warfare is waged with high-tech weapons. Each battle fought eats up loads of ammunition and modern weapons systems need spare parts and fuel. All this meaning that no military action is possible without an advanced economy and supplies. Even terrorist organizations forced to go deep into the underground have to set up laboratories and workshops to produce homemade explosives[Read More...]

IRTVU | Exploring the use of propaganda as a Western tool of destabilisation of countries targeted for regime change.

The Pentagon is buying $2.8 billion worth of weapons for conflict zones around the world. Most of the weapons are destined for Syria. A number of propaganda videos published by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (formerly known as Al Nusra Front – the Al Qaeda branch in Syria) show the terrorists already being supplied with sophisticated […]
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21WIRE | Announcement comes as Washington and Karachi negotiate new settlement for future US counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan