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State Department Threatens Georgia With ‘Consequences,’ Amid Rigged Election Claims

by Connor Freeman | Oct 29, 2024 | Foreign Policy, News

The State Department and the European Union are demanding Tbilisi repeal “anti-democratic” legislation and investigate election “irregularities” respectively after the Georgian Dream Party won this weekend’s parliamentary elections. Georgian leaders including Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and President Salome Zourabichvili are at odds, with Zourabichvili accusing Kobakhidze’s party of winning a “total fraud” election. Per the official tally, Georgian Dream won 54% of the vote, with multiple opposition parties earning between 3-11%. Georgian Dream will form the country’s next government as...

DOD Audit on Military Aid for Israel Will Not Investigate Human Rights Violations

by Connor Freeman | Oct 27, 2024 | Foreign Policy, News

The Pentagon’s inspector general has launched its audit covering the military’s oversight of US military aid provided to Israel for its war against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, Bloomberg reported. However, the audit will not investigate whether the over 50,000 tons of weapons transferred to Tel Aviv are being used to commit human rights violations, including those actions which break both US and international law. “Proper use, storage, and physical security,” of US weapons and equipment such as drones, missiles, and night vision devices is what the IG will be evaluating. The...

Report: Shin Bet Warned of Possible Hamas Assault Hours Before October 7 Attack

by Connor Freeman | Oct 24, 2024 | Foreign Policy, News

Approximately three hours prior to the Hamas’ attack in southern Israel on October 7, Shin Bet warned other elements of the police and security establishment that a potential assault emanating from the besieged Gaza Strip could be imminent. The Kan public broadcaster and Channel 12 news reported the internal security service sent a “top secret” notification to the National Security Council, Mossad, and police that Israeli SIM cards Shin Bet had previously circulated within the group’s ranks as part of an operation had been activated “in a number of Hamas battalions.” There was no solid...

Leaked US Intelligence Documents Outline Israeli Preparations to Strike Iran

by Connor Freeman | Oct 19, 2024 | News

Updated 10/19/24 at 9:15pm EDT. Leaked top secret documents from the Pentagon and the National Security Agency (NSA) outline Israeli preparations for a major attack against Iran, CNN reported on Saturday. The documents were published Friday on a Telegram channel, said to be affiliated with Iran, named “Middle East Spectator” that claims it received the information from a source within a US intelligence agency. Besides the US, these documents, dated October 15 and 16, were only meant to be viewed by officials in Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, Washington’s “Five Eyes” allies. CNN...

Americans Must End Israel’s Serial Slaughter of Gaza’s Children

by Connor Freeman | Oct 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

It's time for the American people to stand up to Washington and demand an immediate end to the endless support the United States has provided to apartheid Israel for its killing spree during the past year. For fifty-seven years, Israel has subjected millions of Palestinian Muslims and Christians to a totalitarian, foreign military occupation. The Palestinian people have been systematically deprived of the ability to vote as well as their natural rights to life, liberty, freedom of movement, and property. With Israeli army protection and participation, for decades, the illegal Jewish settler...

Americans Have Learned Nothing Since 9/11

by Connor Freeman | Sep 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

We should never forget that American civilians were blindsided twenty-three years ago this month when a small group of mostly Saudis and Egyptians hijacked our civilian airliners in a kamikaze mission that murdered thousands. Though none of them were Palestinian, the nineteen hijackers’ indefensible terrorist attack was motivated largely by Washington’s unconditional military, financial, and diplomatic support for Israel's apartheid system, illegal occupations, and myriad atrocities in southern Lebanon as well as Palestine. By design, that’s a crucial part of the story never included in the...

Pentagon Finds Another $2 Billion in Ukraine Aid ‘Accounting Errors’

by Connor Freeman | Jul 27, 2024 | News

The Pentagon discovered $2 billion in additional accounting errors regarding its valuation of missiles, ammo, and other equipment provided to Kiev, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found on Thursday. The Defense Department made a similar claim last year, saying it availed Washington of $6.2 billion in weapons to fuel the Ukraine proxy war with Russia. This latest report brings the improperly valued military material to a total of $8.2 billion, with the error said to be a result of unclear accounting definitions. In June 2023, the Pentagon insisted that weapons shipped to...

NATO States Embrace Conscription, Eyeing Future War with Russia

by Connor Freeman | Jul 22, 2024 | News

As NATO escalates its proxy war in Ukraine and inches closer to fighting directly with Russia, the Washington-led bloc is embracing mandatory military service. Many European members of NATO have expanded or reintroduced conscription as part of large-scale preparations for such a war, CNN reports. Already outpaced in terms of military industrial capacity by Russia, the alliance’s new battleplans will see an attempt to beef up weapons production and form 35-50 brigades of 3,000-7,000 battle ready troops. Outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has insisted, “Today, we have 500,000...