In October 1968, during the Paris Peace Talks, the U.S. was ready to agree to cease bombing Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam, in exchange for concessions that would halt the decades-long conflict which eventually killed an estmiated 58,000 American soldiers, 2 million Vietnamese civilians and 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong combatants. But suddenly, the […]
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Terrorist Murders 35 People NYE In Instanbul
Authorities in Turkey searched Sunday for a gunman who opened fire at a packed nightclub during New Year’s celebrations in Istanbul, killing at least 39 people and injuring 69. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned “the terror attack in Istanbul’s Ortakoy neighborhood in the first hours of 2017” and offered condolences for those who died, including “foreign guests.” […]
Isis Burns Two Alive
ISIS barbarians burned two Turkish soldiers alive in northern Syria, a gruesome new video released by the terror group shows. The 19-minute video, titled “The Cross Shield,” shows the doomed servicemen being taken out of cages and forced to crawl around on their hands and knees. The soldiers are then seen standing with chains around […]
Trump To Enter Into Arms Race With Putin
U.S.-Russia relations will certainly be a major feature of the Trump presidency; the intelligence community has accused Putin’s government of hacking e-mails from Democratic Party officials in an effort to help Trump win the recent presidential election. In 2014, Russia annexed the territory of Crimea from neighboring Ukraine, which triggered several rounds of economic sanctions […]
Obama Sending More Troops To Syria To Fight Isis
MANAMA, Bahrain – The United States is sending additional troops to Syria, nearly doubling the Pentagon’s presence there, to help thousands of Kurdish and Arab fighters massing for an assault on the Islamic State’s stronghold of Raqqa, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said here on Saturday. Mr. Carter said the reinforcements would include American commandos […]
Obama Seeks Intelligence Report Into Russian Hacking
Washington – President Obama has ordered American intelligence agencies to produce a full report on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, his homeland security adviser said on Friday. He also directed them to develop a list of “lessons learned” from the broad campaign the United States has accused Russia of carrying out to […]
Army Deserter Bowe Bergdahl Seeks Pardon From Obama
WASHINGTON — U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former prisoner of war who’s accused of endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan, is asking President Barack Obama to pardon him before leaving office. White House and Justice Department officials said Saturday that Bergdahl had submitted copies of the clemency request seeking leniency. If […]
Trump Selects ‘Mad Dog’ As Next Secretary Of Defense
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, who has said that responding to “political Islam” is the major security issue facing the United States, to be secretary of defense. “We are going to appoint Mad Dog Mattis as our secretary of defense,” Trump told a rally in Cincinnati, […]
Trump’s National Security Adviser Primed For WWIII
Late in the presidential race, Donald Trump warned that his opponent would start a new world war. “You’re going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton,” he told Reuters. As it turns out, there was no need to worry about Clinton’s hawkishness. The next world war is […]
American Antagonist Fidel Castro Dies
Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died Friday. He was 90. His death […]
Gen. James Mattis Is Trump’s Leading Candidate For Defense Secretary
This weekend, President-elect Donald Trump described retired Marine General James Mattis as a contender to be the next defense secretary and as “the real deal” following their hour-long meeting Saturday. Mattis retired from the Marine Corps in 2013 after a 41-year career where he led Marines into Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War, the initial […]
Family Of Soldier KIA Boo’d While Exiting American Airlines Flight
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — The father of a California soldier recently killed in Afghanistan says he felt disrespected and hurt by passengers who booed him and his family when they were on a flight to meet his son’s remains. Stewart Perry, his wife and daughter were on an American Airlines flight Monday from Sacramento to […]