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America’s Carbon-Pusher in Chief
Trump’s Fossil-Fueled Foreign Policy
By Michael T. Klare
Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy? Pundits and critics across the political spectrum have chided him for failing to articulate and implement a clear international agenda. Look closely at his overseas endeavors, though, and one all-too-consistent
Raqqa: YPG suffered heavy losses in Raqqa [list] – WorldOnAlert on Twitter
British ex-soldier arrested in Turkey and accused of fighting alongside Kurdish rebels – telegraph.co.uk
Burning Raqqa
The U.S. War Against Civilians in Syria
By Laura Gottesdiener
It was midday on Sunday, May 7th, when the U.S.-led coalition warplanes again began bombing the neighborhood of Wassim Abdo’s family.
They lived in Tabqa, a small city on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. Then occupied by the Islamic State (ISIS, also known as Daesh), Tabqa was also under siege by U.S.-backed troops and being hit by daily artillery fire from U.S. Marines, as well as U.S.-led coalition
Yes, I’m going to tell you what’s missing from this film without watching the film. Trump has, as promised, made me so sick of winning that I really could enjoy watching a defeat film, but I think I’ll pass. If I’m wrong about what’s missing from it (I mean one of the many things that are, no doubt, missing from it), I promise that I will eat an entire plan for victory in Afghanistan annually for the next decade.
One of the oddest things about World War II is how it
Kurdish-led forces fling back huge ISIS counterattack in Raqqa – almasdarnews.com
In pictures: ISIS uses hordes of suicide bombers against Kurdish forces in Raqqa city (PHOTOS) – almasdarnews.com
SDF says 45% of Raqqa city liberated, operations ongoing – ARA News
Syrian Democratic Forces deny pause in anti-ISIS operations in Raqqa – ARA News
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In May 2012, TomDispatch featured a piece by Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer, both then analysts at the National Priorities Project, headlined “War Pay: The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget.” The two of them ran through the figures for the cumulative annual budget for what we still mysteriously
| Jason Rawn leading a Maine Peace Walk in 2014 |
Today’s guest post by civil disobedient Jason Rawn was rejected by the Times Record. A daily paper local to General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works plant, the Times Record customarily publishes a monthly opinion column written by various Peaceworks members. In July the editor refused the submitted piece saying that drawing connections between the present day and the Holocaust is “a bit much.” But is it? You be the judge.
Are We The “Good Germans” Now?
by Jason Rawn
I’m
US sends in mine-proof trucks for battle in Raqqa – theaustralian.com
Armored US combat vehicles have been spotted pouring into Syria (PHOTOS, VIDEO) – taskandpurpose.com
US special operators are moving closer to the fighting in Raqqa – The Drive
At Every Door
by Kathy Kelly
July 21, 2017
“I come and stand at every door
But none shall hear my silent tread
I knock and yet remain unseen”
-Nazim Hikmet
On July 18, 2017, at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing focused on “The Four Famines: Root Causes and a Multilateral Action Plan,” Republican Senator Todd Young, a former Marine, asked