Tag: US military presence

Categories Russia

All Those Missiles Pointed at Russia: Who Are They Trying to Hit?

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As the Serbs never tire of pointing out, international diplomacy is often driven by irrational prejudice. Whenever Serbs try and create a country of their own, which includes all the predominantly Serb population areas, the rest of the world thinks this is a bad thing and does everything it can to prevent it. … Read More >All Those Missiles Pointed at Russia: Who Are They Trying to Hit?

Categories Shows

On Contact: Afghanistan Papers with Spenser Rapone

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Chris Hedges talks to Spenser Rapone, former combat veteran and US Army officer, about the Washington Post’s series the ‘Afghanistan Papers’. Drawing on thousands of pages of international government documents about the war in Afghanistan, the series exposes the lies, deceit, mismanagement, waste, corruption, fraud, and failed schemes that both Democratic and Republican administrations pursed in Afghanistan, the longest conflict in US history … Read More >On Contact: Afghanistan Papers with Spenser Rapone

Categories USA

The Afghanistan Fiasco and the Decline and Fall of the American Military

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A devastating investigative report was published in the Washington Post on December 9th. Dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers” in a nod to the Vietnam War’s famous “Pentagon Papers,” the report relied on thousands of documents to similarly expose how the US government at the presidential level … Read More >The Afghanistan Fiasco and the Decline and Fall of the American Military

Categories Middle East

US Forces Reportedly Return to Six Previously Abandoned Bases in Syria

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Early in October, the US president announced the withdrawal of American troops from Syrian soil only to partially revert it at a later date. Some US servicemen stayed behind with the Pentagon claiming that they are guarding Syrian oil fields from falling back into the hands of terrorists. … Read More >US Forces Reportedly Return to Six Previously Abandoned Bases in Syria

Categories EU

US-Turkey relations at critical crossroads: what’s behind Erdogan’s threat to shutter Incirlik Air Base?

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When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to close a vital airbase used by American forces, he wasn’t bluffing, and Washington should take his threats at face value, or risk losing a NATO ally, analysts say. … Read More >US-Turkey relations at critical crossroads: what’s behind Erdogan’s threat to shutter Incirlik Air Base?

Categories Middle East

US taking over from IS & Al-Nusra Front by seizing Syrian oil at behest of ‘money lobbies’ – Assad

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Powerful lobbies are behind the US rush for Syria’s natural resources, and the Americans are carrying on where Islamist groups left off by “stealing and selling” them, President Bashir Assad has said. … Read More >US taking over from IS & Al-Nusra Front by seizing Syrian oil at behest of ‘money lobbies’ – Assad