TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
The US forces are reportedly using white phosphorus munitions against Islamist militants in Iraq, despite widespread perception of the weapon as indiscriminate and able to cause horrific injuries to civilians. Images posted on a Pentagon-run public affairs website Dvids show a US Army artillery unit firing white phosphorus munitions in Iraq, identified by the Washington Post as Read More…
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…
In a damning commentary on the rush to invade Iraq, Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry found “diplomatic options had not” at the time “been exhausted. Military action was therefore not a last resort” — as then Prime Minister Tony Blair led the people of the U.K. to believe. While the Chilcot Report proffers scathing insight into the Read More…
While the terrorist group known as the Islamic State (or ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) might be a formidable and abhorrent foe, one mischaracterization of these terrorists — repeated far too often by politicians and many in the media — must be put to rest. The Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam — no matter Read More…
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Joe Dunford admitted yesterday, despite Obama’s insistence that the US presence in Iraq is only as non-combatants, that US troops are indeed “fighting and dying” in the war-torn country, and elsewhere in the Middle East. He confirmed that the March 19 death of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin was in Read More…
It’s hard to tell whether this is a move made out of desperation, or just another example of ISIS’ creative thinking. But the international terrorist organization, known for its brutal and violent takeover and occupation of the Middle East has begun drugging animals. And not just a few – sources in Iraq claim that the Read More…