Over half of 1.4 million guns U.S. shipped into Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 are unaccounted for in DoD’s own records, watchdog discovers. The U.S. government has shipped over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11, according a new analysis by the U.K.-based watchdog Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), but the Pentagon is only Read More…
Foreign Policy
A Political Hypocrisy: A Deadly Game of Misdirection
The United States continues its unconstitutional and indiscriminate bombing of both combatants and average citizens, including women, children and the elderly, which has been responsible for untold non-combatant deaths. That amount is indeed untold, as the mainstream media only reports on the stories they have been given clearance to cover from those pulling the strings; T.H.E.Y. Read More…
Assange Assassination Attempt? Cops Took 2 Hours to Respond to Embassy Breach
The Wikileaks Twitter account reported early Monday morning that an unidentified man attempted to scale the wall of the Ecuadorian Embassy in the U.K. at 2:47 am. The “cat burglar” escaped security and managed to flee to safety while embassy security waited two hours for U.K. police to take the two minute walk from the police Read More…
The Department Of Defense Cannot Account For The $8.5 Trillion Spent By The Pentagon
When government is completely dysfunctional and seems not to serve the people’s interests, we have to wonder where our tax dollars are going. Thanks to a Reuters investigation by Scot Paltrow, we have an answer—or, rather, a non-answer. Apparently, the Pentagon has made use of $8.5 trillion of our tax money handed over by Congress since 1996—but Read More…
Nearly 15 Years and $70 Billion Later, US Troops Still Endlessly Fighting Taliban
Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland said mission would be ‘temporary,’ but would not say how long it would last, citing ‘security reasons.’ More than a hundred U.S. troops were sent to Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan on Monday to continue fighting the Taliban, in the first deployment of forces to the area since the drawdown in 2014—offering another Read More…
Lawmakers, Peace Groups Team Up to Block ‘Disturbing’ US-Saudi Arms Deal
The deal was announced while Congress was in recess, giving them little time to debate it before the 30-day window closes, CODEPINK noted. Anti-war advocates are launching an 11th-hour bid to stop U.S. Congress from approving a $1.15 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia in its fight against Houthi rebels in Yemen, which was announced Read More…






