The U.S. government has spent a staggering $1.46 trillion on wars abroad since September 11, 2001, according to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) periodical “Cost of War” report. As International Business Times reports, this amounts to $250 million a day for 16 years consecutively. The newly released version, published by the Federation of American Scientists’ Secrecy News blog, spans Read More…
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Terrorists Are Equipped With Western Weapons In Syria
Inside Syria Media Center continues publishing evidence of the U.S.-made weapons supply to ISIS and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) terrorists in Syria. According to Syrian General Ali Al-Ali, the United States illegally delivered at least 1,500 trucks with military equipment and weapons for terrorists in Syria between June 5 and September 15 this Read More…
3 Ways The NYC Terrorist Attack Proves The ‘War on Terror’ Is A Failure And Simply Propaganda
The NYC Terrorist Attack serves as a reminder that the War on Terror has taken away Americans’ freedoms, and failed to keep them “safe.” (TFTP) A truck attack in New York City that killed eight people on Tuesday is now being hailed the “Deadliest Terrorist Attack in New York Since 9/11,” after the suspect reportedly pledged Read More…
UN Claims Syrian Gov’t Behind Chemical Attacks — But Where’s The Motive?
A new report from the U.N. has concluded Syrian government forces are to blame for a chemical weapons attack in April of this year in Khan Sheikhoun. The report from the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) says the investigators are “confident that the Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for Read More…
US Govt-Funded Think Tank Praises “Moderate” Al Qaeda
With al Qaeda now seen by the U.S. as likely the only group in Syria “militarily capable of challenging the Assad regime’s grip on power, the U.S. is in the uncomfortable position of having to rehabilitate 9/11 and current terrorists into supportable “moderates.” Last week, Foreign Affairs, self-described as the “leading magazine for analysis and debate of Read More…
Debate Over Trump’s Military Powers Ignored As “The Resistance” Focuses On Manafort
Russiagaters, who judging by the tweets I saw all weekend were certain Trump would be in handcuffs today, are making a strained effort to appear vindicated after the notoriously corrupt Paul Manafort and two guys they’d never heard of found themselves in legal hot water while a Podesta brother resigned instead. They remind me of a guy who keeps trying to Read More…