“Why did 55 cheerful, well-fed, safe people in suits just vote for mass-murder?”
Read more: http://davidswanson.org/why-55-u-s-senators-voted-for-genocide-in-yemen/
“A full cast of veterans, contractors, doctors, and spouses testify about symptoms and their ongoing battle with the federal bureaucracy, which, as of today, has yet to acknowledge a direct connection between severe health injuries and the air around the pits.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-awful-legacy-of-iraqs-burn-pits/
“The first bombs to fall on Musa Qala didn’t fall on a ‘Taliban narcotics production facility.’ They fell on Hajii Habibullah’s house, killing him, his wife, his seven-year-old daughter, four sons aged between three and eight, as well as a visiting adult daughter and her year-old daughter. Only the son-in-law sleeping in a guest house on the property survived.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/feb/10/trumps_afghanistan_taliban
“A controversial Israeli law passed by the country’s parliament, the Knesset, in 2011, allows Israeli individuals, corporations, and even the state itself to punish anyone who supports the boycott of Israel itself, or Israeli owned businesses.”
Read more: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2018/2/5/israels-attempt-to-criminalise-bds
“Syria’s government on Tuesday rejected efforts led by the United Nations to form a committee to rewrite Syria’s constitution, the main result of a peace congress among Syrian groups in Russia last month. Participants at the Sochi congress, a centerpiece of diplomatic efforts by Damascus’ ally Russia to end the war, agreed on Jan. 30 to set up the constitutional committee in Geneva, and to hold democratic elections in Syria.”
“Saudi Arabia has recruited an array of foreign consultants and public relations firms to draw up and promote its new multi-billion dollar aid plan for Yemen, one that could reduce imports of vital goods into a key rebel-held port.”
“A decorated Navy SEAL who served in Iraq and Afghanistan will spend 27 years in prison after admitting he sexually abused a 5-year-old family member.”
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-decorated-Navy-SEAL-abused-a-5-year-old-and-12619624.php
“George W. Bush should have permanently taught Americans that presidents are most dangerous when seeking to con the nation into unnecessary wars — for democracy or any other pretext. Unfortunately, the recent media consecration of Bush may be expunging that bitter lesson.”
“However inadvertently, Trump has thereby bestowed on the American people a singular gift, putting a presidential imprimatur on a point that critics have been making for years, to no avail. Pointing out that our post-9/11 wars have resulted in a multitrillion-dollar waste of lives and treasure represents easily the greatest achievement of his young administration.”
“With US forces holding the purse strings and oil fields in Syria, the US intends to make Syria an international pariah state much like North Korea.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-syria-assad-remove-north-korea-2018-2