Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear today that he and his government oppose the ongoing ceasefire in Southern Syria, a deal negotiated between the United States and Russia, and which has continued to hold throughout the past week.Netanyahu made...
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House Approves $696 Billion Military Spending Bill
by Jason Ditz | Jul 15, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a 344-81 vote yesterday, the House of Representatives passed their version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $696 billion spending bill which far exceeds the amount of money sought by the Pentagon and the Trump Administration.The bill has a...
US Tells North Korea It Is Prepared to Go to War
by Jason Ditz | Jul 5, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The top US general on the Korean Peninsula, Gen. Vincent Brooks, today issued a statement announcing that the United States is totally prepared to start a war against North Korea at any moment, and that it is only “self-restraint” that has kept the US from attacking...
Mattis Claims White House Threat to Syria ‘Worked’
by Jason Ditz | Jun 28, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Monday night’s out-of-nowhere statement from the White House, claiming a Syrian chemical weapon attack was imminent and promising to make Syria pay a heavy price must’ve been successful, Secretary of Defense James Mattis reasoned, since no chemical attack happened...
US Troops Kill Three Civilians After Afghan Roadside Bombing
by Jason Ditz | Jun 12, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A US military convoy in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province was hit by a roadside bomb earlier today, with Pentagon officials quick to insist that no one was wounded in the incident. Three civilians, however, two of them children, were killed in the immediate...
US Is Killing More Civilians in Syria Air War Than Assad Is
by Jason Ditz | May 27, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Exemplified by the hundred and some odd people they’ve killed in the last 48 hours,the US is struggling mightily with the narrative that they are taking extraordinary care to limit the number of civilian casualties in the air war in Syria, and are rapidly losing any...
US Arms Makers’ Stocks at Record Highs on Saudi Deal
by Jason Ditz | May 23, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The weekend finalization of a US arms deal with Saudi Arabia which officials say will be worth at least $350 billion over the next decade sent the stocks of politically well-connected US arms makers soaring to all-time highs, underscoring just how much money there is...
Trump Advisers Want at Least 50,000 US Troops in Afghanistan
by Jason Ditz | May 18, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Publicly US strategy in the Afghan War has been based around the conceit that the conflict is in a “stalemate,” despite mounting losses by the Afghan government. Advisers have offered a classified assessment on the conflict recently, however, conceding that the Ghani...
US Preparing Charges Against Julian Assange
by Jason Ditz | Apr 21, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US officials have repeatedly vilified WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over the past several years, and intermittently called for his assassination, but just now appear to be nearing a decision to file charges against him, accusing him of crimes for involvement in the...
Trump: NATO Is ‘No Longer Obsolete’
by Jason Ditz | Apr 12, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After fueling a lot of tensions with his comments during the 2016 campaign that NATO is an obsolete alliance, President Trump today declared that the alliance is “no longer obsolete” following meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.Though Trump presented...
White House Sends Confusing Message on Syria Barrel Bombs
by Jason Ditz | Apr 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s tendency to improvise when asked questions about US policy has sparked a new round of speculation about exactly where the Trump Administration stands of launching further attacks against Syria, after he declared barrel bombs...
Reports: US Airstrikes Killed 230 Civilians in Mosul Overnight
by Jason Ditz | Mar 24, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the US airstrikes in the Iraqi city of Mosul are increasingly concentrated around densely populated neighborhoods in the city’s west, the death toll from those airstrikes in spiraling rapidly out of control, with the most recent figures out of the area suggesting...
US Airstrikes Continue in Yemen, Killing Former Gitmo Detainee
by Jason Ditz | Mar 7, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Heavy US airstrikes that began Thursday and continued through the weekend have not halted yet, with at least one strike reported on Monday, with the drone strike destroying a car and killing both people within, labeled “suspected terrorists,” though both were burned...
Syrian Rebels Fret Over Trump’s Planned Syria Overhaul
by Jason Ditz | Nov 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President-elect Donald Trump is planning a major overhaul to US policy in Syria, and that’s got the putative “moderate” rebels that have been getting US funds and weapons fretting, as the CIA program responsible for smuggling that gear in is set to be cancelled. The...
Pentagon Seeks Another $6 Billion for Overseas Troop Deployments
by Jason Ditz | Nov 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Pentagon has announced it will file a “budget amendment” seeking another $6 billion in funding for the current fiscal year to pay for additional overseas troop deployments above and beyond what was already in the budget for this year. The $6 billion request comes...
Turkey Air Raid Kills 200 Kurdish Fighters in Syria
by Jason Ditz | Oct 20, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Turkey has long insisted they view the Kurdish YPG and ISIS as basically the same thing. Overnight incidents around the city of Afrin, however, show that when the two forces are in close proximity, the Turkish military is definitely going after the Kurds. The Kurdish...
Senate Fails to Block Tank Sales to Saudi Arabia
by Jason Ditz | Sep 21, 2016 | Congress Alert
In a disappointing 71-27 vote today, the Senate voted to kill a bill that would’ve blocked the US from carrying out $1.15 billion in tank sales to Saudi Arabia. The bill had bipartisan authorship, but was overwhelmingly opposed by the leadership. Sen. Chris Murphy (D...
Kerry: US Must Approve All Syrian Airstrikes During Ceasefire
by Jason Ditz | Sep 13, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an attempt to clarify questions about the Syrian ceasefire, and the Nusra Front not being a party to it, Secretary of State John Kerry today offered more details, confirming that the US and Russia needed to provide joint permission before the Syrian government was...
Israeli Intel Chief: We Don’t Want ISIS Defeated in Syria
by Jason Ditz | Jun 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a speech at the Herzliya Conference, Israel’s military intelligence chief, Major General Herzi Halevy, took Israel’s long-standing position that it “prefers ISIS” over the Syrian government to a whole ‘nother level, declaring openly that Israel does not want to see...
Susan Rice Assures Israel of ‘Largest Military Aid Package in American History’
by Jason Ditz | Jun 8, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While her speech today at the American Jewish Committee Global Forum included some vague criticism of ongoing Israeli settlement expansion, as usual that will have no impact on US policy, as National Security Adviser Susan Rice centered the speech on pledges of a...
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