Qatar Accuses Saudis of “Reckless Behavior” After Military Threat

Qatar Accuses Saudis of “Reckless Behavior” After Military Threat

Qatar wasn’t pleased after being threatened indirectly by Saudi Arabia after a letter reportedly sent from King Salman to France was published in a French newspaper. In the letter, the Saudis threatened military action if Qatar installs a Russian air defense system. Qatar’s foreign minister told Al Jazeera he did not think the Saudi threat […]

US Air Force Cancels $24 Million Refrigerator Contract For Air Force One

US Air Force Cancels $24 Million Refrigerator Contract For Air Force One

The US Air Force has canceled a $24 million contract for new refrigerators for Air Force One, to replace two of five “chiller units in the presidential jet. The decision to cancel the contract was first revealed in a statement issued Monday by Rep. Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat who’s the ranking member of the […]

Iran Foreign Minister: The World Must Stand Up to US Bullying

Iran Foreign Minister: The World Must Stand Up to US Bullying

Iran’s Foreign Minister said that the world needs to stand up to the bullying and bellicose behavior of the United States as he attempts to save a nuclear deal after Washington’s withdrawal last month. In a letter from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to his counterparts, he asked “the remaining signatories and other trade […]

US: North Korea Replaces Top Three Military Officers

US: North Korea Replaces Top Three Military Officers

In a move U.S. officials say is to jump-start the country’s economic development and engage more with the outside world, North Korea has replaced their top three military officers. Kim Jong Un is preparing for a high-stakes summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore on June 12, the first such meeting between a North […]

Anarchist Bombs Set Off Red Scare and Give Rise to J.Edgar Hoover

Anarchist Bombs Set Off Red Scare and Give Rise to J.Edgar Hoover

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States had a series of events that forever changed the face of our nation’s national law enforcement agency and set off a wave of anti-immigration acts around the country. In early 1919 a group of anarchists mailed bombs to 36 prominent politicians and appointees, including […]

US Tells China They Have Experience Taking Down Small Islands

US Tells China They Have Experience Taking Down Small Islands

The war of words between the United States and China has been amped up even more when on Thursday a Pentagon official stated while the US will seek common ground with China on North Korea and other issues, they will continue to protect their interests. And the message was clear on what the United States […]

North and South Korea Agree to Hold Military, Red Cross Talks

North and South Korea Agree to Hold Military, Red Cross Talks

While the on-again, off-again summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un is still in flux, the divided Korean states, both North and South have agreed to conduct military and Red Cross talks later this month. They are trying to finally end the war that began 68 years ago and hopefully set the table […]

On This Date in 1962, Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann Hanged in Israel

Adolf Eichmann was a member of the Nazi Party, the SS, and the SD during Hitler’s reign of terror during the 1930s and 1940s. He was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved […]

Assad Vows to Retake Areas of Southern Syria Held by US-Backed Kurds

Assad Vows to Retake Areas of Southern Syria Held by US-Backed Kurds

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has upped the ante and warned Kurdish forces that are trained and equipped by the United States that he wouldn’t hesitate to use force to retake the roughly one-third of the country they currently control. Assad also tried to sound ominous and said in an interview with Russian television that the […]

Poland Wants a Permanent US Base to Counter Russian Aggression

Poland Wants a Permanent US Base to Counter Russian Aggression

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak wants a permanent U.S. presence in his country to balance against Russian aggression and has already had talks with American officials about establishing a base there. The Poles are even willing to pay up to $2 billion dollars to help build the base and needed infrastructure for a permanent U.S. […]

US: Artillery Strike Kills 50 Taliban Insurgent Leaders

US: Artillery Strike Kills 50 Taliban Insurgent Leaders

A U.S. military spokesman said on Tuesday that the US-led coalition launched an artillery strike on a meeting of insurgent leaders, killing 50 Taliban commanders in the southern province of Helmand. The attack on a meeting of commanders in the district of Musa Qala in Helmand, one of the heartlands of the Taliban insurgency, was […]

Ian Fleming, Creator of James Bond Was Born Today in 1908

Ian Fleming, Creator of James Bond Was Born Today in 1908

You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face I’ve always been a James Bond fan since as far back as my memory goes. I remember being enthralled by the derring-do of Bond since I sat quiet (for once) and was mesmerized by Goldfinger. After that, […]