- Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli sentenced to seven years in prison. [Link]
- California’s bullet train’s projected cost is now $77 billion, an increase of $13 billion from the previous estimate. The opening date of the train has also been delayed until 2033. [Link]
- The top weapon makers CEO’s make millions. [Link]
- Trump pardons the Navy sailor who was jailed for taking a selfie in a submarine. [Link]
- Trump’s military parade will feature a heavy air component. Tanks will not be used in the parade. [Link]
- Ray McGovern on progressive journalists getting Russiagate wrong. [Link]
- Pat Buchanan on avoiding a new Cold War with Russia. [Link]
- Russia’s new nuclear weapons are not a bluff. [Link]
- Four Senators are calling on Secretary of State Tillerson to enter into arms control talks with Russia. [Link]
- Trump says in a Tweet that sanctions will remain on North Korea until a deal is made. [Link]
- Peter van Buren responds to critics of the Trump/Kim planned talks. [Link] Jonathan Marshall takes on other critics of the Trump/Kim talks. [Link]
- The US treatment of Iran, Saddam, and Gaddafi may give Kim Jong Un caution in giving up his nuclear weapons. [Link]
- The US tells the Taliban that they must engage in talks with the Afghan government before talking with the US. [Link]
- The Taliban give their support to a pipeline that will run thought Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan. [Link]
- The Taliban killed 18 Afghan soldiers in an attack on the Farah province. 25 Taliban fighters were killed in US airstrikes. [Link]
- The US reduces its military personnel and removes its A10 aircraft from Turkey’s Incirlik airbase. [Link]
- Erdogan has been working to increase Turkey’s relationships with African countries. [Link]
- Turkish soldiers and allied forces are approaching the city of Afrin. [Link]
- Patrick Cockburn: Syria braces for dramatic escalation set to be ‘bloodier than Ghouta.’ [Link]
- Doctors Without Borders reports that over 1,000 people were killed in Eastern Ghouta from Feb 18 – Mar 3. [Link]
- Syrian Rebels are preventing civilians from fleeing Eastern Ghouta. [Link] The Syrian government seized a town in the middle of East Ghouta. The rebel-held enclave is now split into three parts. [Link]
- Col. Wilkerson and Lt. Col. Davies explains why the Senate should vote to stop supporting Saudi’s war in Yemen. [Link] The Yemen War Powers Act would help stop Saudi war crimes in Yemen. [Link]
- The Pentagon says the Yemen War Powers Act will not apply to the refueling of Saudi coalition aircraft. [Link]
- A Yemeni woman and her three children were killed in an Islamic State suicide bombing in Aden. [Link]
- Doctors Without Borders reports that a militia group carried out a mass rape in the Central African Republic. [Link]
