“President Trump will come to regret the day he let the neocons take over his foreign policy.”
“Where the U.S. stands on this 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: in a war without end, without boundaries, without limits on time or geography.”
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/19/iraq-15-accumulated-evil-of-the-whole/
“One wonders why the shocking images of emaciated Yemeni babies don’t have the same effect on Mr. Trump as the photos and video of their Syrian counterparts.”
Read more: https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2018/04/23/some-lives-matter-more-than-others/
“Taliban fighters in Khogyani described how the deaths of family members had caused them to take up arms.”
“Ideally, America would stop giving out all foreign aid, but a good place to start would be nixing aid to countries with horrible human rights records.”
“The results of a government-sponsored inquiry into the sources of funding for Islamist militant groups operating in the U.K. may be kept hidden forever due to the nature of its findings, the U.K.’s Home Office has said, according to local media. A Home Office spokesperson told the publication that a decision may be made on the inquiry after the nation’s next government is elected, but the article provided no further details.”
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/uk-report-terror-saudi-arabia-public-finding-618508
“The massive US arms deal with Saudi Arabia signed last month by President Trump is continuing to drive up arms makers’ stock, though at present the exact dollar values for specific companies are a matter of some speculation. These companies and other well-connected US arms makers are all expected to make quite a bit of money off this new arms deal with Saudi Arabia, as well as more money off of President Trump’s planned military spending increases. As the chance of peace suddenly breaking out looks more and more remote, the arms makers are expected to continue raking in money hand over fist.”
“A radicalized Libyan whose family fled Gaddafi’s secular Libya, and later trained to be an armed ‘rebel’ in Syria, fighting for the US and UK ‘regime change’ policy toward the secular Assad government, Salman Abedi was the direct product of US and UK interventions in the greater Middle East.”
“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.”
“This New York lawyer says he has found a link between Saudi officials and the hijackers. The U.S. government refuses to do anything about it.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/saudi-arabia-911-lawyer-214996