UN ambassador Nikki Haley alludes to US intervention in Syria after chemical attack

UN ambassador Nikki Haley seemed to hint at a possible US intervention in Syria on Wednesday during a UN Security Council meeting. During her address to the council, Haley harshly condemned the gas attack in Syria that killed dozens on Tuesday. She slammed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime as “barbaric” and said Tuesday’s attack had “all the hallmarks […]

UN holds an emergency meeting on the suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria

During the United Nations emergency meeting held today after the suspected chemical attack in Syria yesterday, countries expressed their outrage of the potential war crime and urged the international community to seek a fact-finding investigation to determine who is responsible for the attack. António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, declared in Brussels on Wednesday […]

Russian Federation Council Member found dead In St. Petersburg

Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a probe into the death of Federation Council member Vadim Tyulpanov. Tyulpanov died on April 4 in St. Petersburg. According to preliminary results, he slipped and fell at a fitness center, striking his head. He was already dead when help arrived. Investigators were studying the scene of the incident.   […]

American train, advise, assist program helped Russians win the war

As typical of Russian propaganda and so-called “fake news” we are told by state-sponsored active measures efforts like Russia Today that everything America does is imperialist, neo-colonialist, and needlessly provocative.  Watching RT is like listening to Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn get up to the podium at some lefty university event wearing a sweater with […]

Iraqi investigation lays the blame on ISIS car bomb for March 17th civilian casualties

A coalition air strike in Mosul, Iraq on March 17th of this year created an international uproar when it was reported that the civilian casualties that resulted could exceed a hundred dead – prompting human rights groups and international opponents to levy serious criticisms toward the United States and its policies regarding when and where […]

Baltic states think Russia is laying the groundwork for looming ‘kinetic operations’

Signs of an intensifying Moscow-led information campaign have the Lithuanian government worried that Russia is laying the groundwork for “kinetic operations” — a euphemism for combat — similar to its recent actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Lithuania’s defense minister and military communications officials told The Guardian that they were “taking very seriously” Russia-organized propaganda efforts […]

We now have a better idea who’s behind ‘unmasking’ Trump officials’ contact with foreign agents — and why

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice reportedly tried to learn the identities of officials on President Donald Trump’s transition team whose conversations with foreign officials were incidentally collected during routine intelligence-gathering operations. The intelligence reports obtained by Rice, who served under President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017, “were summaries of monitored conversations — primarily […]

SECDEF Mattis addresses North Korea, Russia, and ISIS in press conference

In a joint press conference with British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, James Mattis addressed the most pressing security concerns for the United States and its allies, specifically North Korea, Russia, and the global war on terror. First on the docket was North Korea and its burgeoning nuclear missile program that has elevated threats levied by […]