Early last month, Green Berets battling to beat back a Taliban advance in Kunduz, Afghanistan, apparently decided that in order to rid an MSF hospital of some “insurgents” who were apparently hanging out inside, they needed to call in an AC-130 gunship. The aircraft...
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US Blames Afghanistan Hospital Massacre On ‘Malfunctioning Sensors,’ ‘Human Error’
by Tyler Durden | Nov 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
Early last month, Green Berets battling to beat back a Taliban advance in Kunduz, Afghanistan, apparently decided that in order to rid an MSF hospital of some “insurgents” who were apparently hanging out inside, they needed to call in an AC-130 gunship. The aircraft...
The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
by Tyler Durden | Nov 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
photo: US militaryThe question of how the Islamic State funds its sprawling caliphate has been discussed in the past: we first broke down the primary driver of ISIS revenue well over a year ago, in September 2014, when we explained that "ISIS uses oil wealth to help...
US Air Force Blames Lack Of October ISIS Strikes On ‘Poor Weather’
by Tyler Durden | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
On September 30, a Russian general walked into the US embassy in Baghdad and told US diplomats that Moscow would commence air operations in Syria in “one hour.” It would be best, he said, if the US stayed out of the way. The general was affiliated with the newly...
CIA, Saudis To Give ‘Select’ Syrian Militants Weapons Capable Of Downing Commercial Airliners
by Tyler Durden | Nov 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Wednesday brought a veritable smorgasbord of “new” information about the Russian passenger jet which fell out of the sky above the Sinai Peninsula last weekend. First there was an audio recording from ISIS’ Egyptian affiliate reiterating that they did indeed “down”...
US Officials Outline ‘Secret’ Summer Operation To Stop Flow Of Dollars To ISIS
by Tyler Durden | Nov 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Over the last five or so weeks, Washington has been in panic mode with regard to America’s “fight” against ISIS. Once the Russians arrived at Latakia and began to provide air cover for Iranian ground troops operating in Syria it was clear that the clock was ticking on...
NATO Looks To Station Thousands Of Troops On Border With Russia
by Tyler Durden | Oct 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
Russia’s dramatic intervention in Syria has served to push the conflict in Ukraine (a country that is now partially governed by Star Wars characters) to the back of the world’s collective mind. After all, separatists exchanging fire with government forces and/or...
General In Charge Of ‘Total Failure’ Syrian ‘Train And Equip’ Program Gets Promotion
by Tyler Durden | Oct 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US effort to train and equip Syrian freedom fighters battling to bring democracy to Damascus and usurp a brutal dictator has been a smashing success (count the instances of sarcasm there). Take ISIS for example. The Pentagon knew that the opposition groups the...
CNN Anchor Demands Americans ‘Stop Swooning Over Putin’
by Tyler Durden | Oct 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
We’ll just put this bluntly: when you, as a country, do something incredibly stupid from a foreign policy perspective, you open the door for your global critics and adversaries to i) call you out on it publicly, and ii) use your gross incompetence and general...
ISIS In ‘Retreat’ As Russia Destroys 32 Targets While Putin Trolls Obama As ‘Weak With No Strategy’
by Tyler Durden | Oct 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Perhaps the most amusing thing about Russia’s intervention in Syria is the degree to which it made the world wake up and question the West’s “anti-ISIS” strategy. While everyone has been quick to characterize Moscow’s actions as the latest and perhaps greatest example...
ISIS ‘Ally’ Turkey Seeks NATO Support As Two-Front ‘War’ Escalates
by Tyler Durden | Jul 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
NATO representatives met in Brussels on Tuesday after Turkey made a rare Article 4 request which compels treaty parties to convene in the event a member state is of the opinion that its "territorial integrity, political independence or security" is being threatened....
ISIS, Assad Regime Now Fighting Together In Syria, US Alleges
by Tyler Durden | Jun 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
When last we checked in on the situation in Syria, ISIS (who a secret Pentagon document recently revealed was, and probably still is, considered a US “strategic asset”) was supposedly on the move, emboldened by recent successes in the ancient city of Palmyra and the...
This Is How You ‘Boost’ GDP: US Sells Over $4 Billion In Weapons To Israel, Iran, And Saudi Arabia
by Tyler Durden | May 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
War, what's it good for? Aside from countless deaths of innocent civilians of course, it means a GDP boost for the biggest exporter of weapons on earth, the United States, and even more profits for the US military-industrial complex. Profits which mean the...
US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To ‘Deter Russian Aggression’
by Tyler Durden | Dec 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
The ink on Barack Obama's Chuck Hagel termination letter hasn't dried yet but already the US president's new, and seemingly far more hawkish advisors, are having their warmongering presence felt. Case in point: the Eastern European theater of (Cold) war, where...
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