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US Airstrikes Kill 43 Civilians In Apartments

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“After destroying a hospital yesterday in the same part of Raqqa, the US has not publicly commented on today’s strike.  Such incidents rarely make it into the official Pentagon list of civilian casualties in the two nations, which is usually around 10% of the actual death toll as calculated by private NGOs.”

Read more: http://news.antiwar.com/2017/06/03/us-airstrikes-hit-apartments-in-raqqa-kill-43-civilians/

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Trump escalates war of words against Germany after tense summits

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“The tit-for-tat row has escalated rapidly after Trump criticized major NATO allies over their military spending and refused to endorse a global climate change accord at back-to-back summits last week.  On Monday, Merkel showed how seriously she is concerned about Washington’s dependability under Trump by repeating the message she delivered a day earlier that the times when Europe could fully rely on others were ‘over to a certain extent’.”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-trump-idUSKBN18Q138

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US Is Killing More Civilians in Syria Air War Than Assad Is

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“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 pretense of a moral high ground.”

Read more: http://news.antiwar.com/2017/05/26/us-is-killing-more-civilians-in-syria-air-war-than-assad-is/

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WaPo: The U.S. will never win the war in Afghanistan

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“Obama signed off on a surge that ended with 100,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. His generals also promised to break the stalemate. Today, the Taliban controls more of the country than it has since 2001.  Why are we still there? We went into Afghanistan after 9/11 to get Osama bin Laden and to punish the Taliban for harboring al-Qaeda. Now bin Laden is dead; al-Qaeda is dispersed; the Taliban has been battered. The United Nations reports that there were more than 11,000 war-related civilian casualties last year, and 660,000 Afghans were displaced, adding to the country’s massive refugee crisis.  The war has now cost us over $1 trillion, making it the second-costliest U.S. war.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-will-never-win-the-war-in-afghanistan/2017/05/16/ac65a52e-39c0-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

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US Arms Both Sides, Will Supply $100 Billion in Arms to Saudi Arabia, Israel

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“Details are still emerging, but the plan is for this to set out a series of growing deals over the next decade that will involve more than $300 billion going to arms dealers, not just to arm the Saudis, but in extra aid to Israel to ensure their ‘qualitative military edge’ over the Saudis.”

Read more: https://needtoknow.news/2017/05/us-arms-dealers-will-supply-100-billion-arms-saudi-arabia-israel-also-will-receive-us-military-aid/

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John Whitehead, America’s Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows

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“We’re not dealing with a government that exists to serve its people, protect their liberties and ensure their happiness. Rather, these are the diabolical machinations of a make-works program carried out on an epic scale whose only purpose is to keep the powers-that-be permanently (and profitably) employed.”

Read more: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/americas_bloody_reign_of_terror_a_nation_reaps_what_it_sows

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The Silent Slaughter of the US Air War

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“April 2017 was another month of mass slaughter and unimaginable terror for the people of Mosul in Iraq and the areas around Raqqa and Tabqa in Syria, as the heaviest, most sustained U.S.-led bombing campaign since the American War in Vietnam entered its 33rd month.”

Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/09/the-silent-slaughter-of-the-us-air-war/

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Trump Wants a New Afghan Surge. That’s a Terrible Idea.

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“Economists estimate the Afghan war has already cost U.S. taxpayers around a trillion dollars. Now the U.S. military is re-escalating in Afghanistan.  As the Pentagon requests more troops and drops more and bigger bombs, it’s important to assess the dangers of another surge. And to consider whether another U.S. escalation can turn around an unwinnable war. Will Surge 2.0 be consequential, relevant, sustainable? Or will it be another futile chapter in an unwinnable war?”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/06/trump-wants-a-new-afghan-surge-thats-a-terrible-idea-215107

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Trump will arm Syrian Kurds to fight ISIS, over Turkey’s fierce objections

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“Turkey has vehemently opposed the U.S. partnering with the Peoples Protection Units, a Syrian Kurdish militia known as the YPG that has been trained and equipped by the U.S. under President Barack Obama’s administration. It considers the group to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has fought a guerrilla campaign against the Turkish state for more than three decades and which Turkey, the United States and the European Union have declared a terrorist organization. The U.S. sees the Syrian Kurdish forces as the most effective partners in the fight against ISIS.”

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article149617134.html

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Trump on Collision Course With South Korean Leader on Dealing With North

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“Mr. Moon’s strategy is the opposite: to offer an outstretched hand to the North Koreans first, in the hope of reducing tensions with the promise of economic integration. Just because that effort failed the last time it was tried, he argued during a hard-fought campaign, does not mean it will fail again as he deals with an erratic, 33-year-old leader in Pyongyang whose main interest is remaining in power.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/asia/south-korea-election-north-korea-trump-moon-jae-in.html?_r=0

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