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Trump Sends the Marines to Syria

by Scott Horton | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog

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...

US DoD, Syrian Kurdish YPG Fighters Attack Raqqa, Capital of the Islamic State

by Scott Horton | Nov 6, 2016 | Blog

From Rudaw: The US-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday announced the launch of military operations to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from ISIS, the militants’ so-called capital. SDF commanders said at a press conference in the Syrian town of Ain...

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Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...

The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army

It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...

Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things

Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...

Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century

USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...

Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide

I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.

Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus

Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

by Jim Bovard

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...

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

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...