It’s not clear what US intentions are, but a group of US Marines arrived at the Yemeni island of Socotra over the weekend, meeting with the occupying United Arab Emirates forces, and installing Patriot missile systems there.The US hasn’t announced why they are back on...
On FPF #303, I discuss the potential change of government in Venezuela. The leader of the country's opposition, Juan Guaido has declared himself the interim president. The move has been backed by the US and several other nations. The Maduro government still claims to...
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Hope Hodge Seck, a writer for Military.com, discusses the deployment of Marines attached to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) into Syria, and their preparation to provide artillery back-up to American supported militia fighters poised to attack the Islamic...
Haven't I told you for the last year or more he was going to send the Marines to eastern Syria? I admit I thought he's send 'em to Mosul first, but I guess the special ops guys have got that handled -- for now. Well now he's sent Marine artillery and infantry too. Now...
Really it started in January when they sent 300 Marines back to Helmand Province just before Trump's inauguration. Who knows if Obama was even consulted. Today Gen. Nicholson told the Senate Armed Services Committee he needs "thousands," more "advise and assist"...
Hope Hodge Seck, a writer for Military.com, discusses the Obama administration's last-minute deployment of a 300-Marine team of advisors to Helmand province in Afghanistan, where the Taliban is resurgent and no reliable opposition exists.
Patrick Cockburn writes that the combined forces invading Mosul are bogged down, and that due to large numbers of civilians trapped there the U.S. air power cannot just flatten the place as they did in Ramadi. Perhaps there will still be enough ISIS left in Mosul and...
Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...
Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...
