(Jake Johnson) The ongoing U.S. “war on terror” has forcibly displaced as many as 59 million people from just eight countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia since 2001, according to a new report published Tuesday by Brown University’s Costs of War Project.
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Declassified Docs: Bin Laden Plotted To Push U.S. Into ‘Crisis’ By Making Biden President
(Ryan Saavedra) Declassified documents that were retrieved from inside Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound in 2011 revealed that he wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama to make “totally unprepared” Joe Biden the next president of the United States, predicting that Biden would lead the U.S. “into a crisis.”
$6.4 Trillion And Counting — How The Military-Industrial Complex Hijacked The War On Terror
(Eric Margolis) Ike Was Right!
DHS Warns Female Suicide Bomber ‘Of Middle Eastern Descent’ Being Smuggled Into The US Within Days
(Zero Hedge) The US border patrol is on alert for a possible suicide bomber heading north toward the US-Mexico border, according to Breitbart, which obtained a copy of an internal memo issued by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
London Bridge Killer Was Released From Prison Early On Prior Terrorism Charge
(Zero Hedge) Update: According to The Telegraph, London Bridge attacker Usman Khan, 28, was a convicted terrorist who was released from prison in December 2018 – less than seven years into a 16-year sentence for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange.
The So-Called War on Terror Has Killed Over 801,000 People and Cost $6.4 Trillion
(Jessica Corbett) The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion according to a pair of reports published Wednesday by the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
Trump Confirms ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi Killed In US Raid
(Zero Hedge) Islamic State’s self-styled Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed (once again) in a United States Special Ops overnight raid Saturday involving helicopters, warplanes and a ground clash on the Turkey-Syria border while fleeing Syria’s northwestern Idlib Governorate, with President Trump making a “major statement” of the biggest symbolic victory of his administration in the war against terrorism.
New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq
(David Swanson) In the years following 2003, the U.S. military dotted Iraq with over 500 military bases, many of them close to Iraqi cities.
Most Voters Agree With Trump’s Withdrawal From ‘Endless Wars’
(Zero Hedge) A majority of voters polled by Rasmussen agree with President Trump’s statement that “It is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home. We will fight where it is to our benefit, and only fight to win.”
7 Reasons To Be Highly Skeptical Of The Gulf Of Oman Incident
(Caitlin Johnstone) In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wasted no time scrambling to blame Iran for damage done to two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, citing exactly zero evidence.
US Gov’t Now Openly Admits Pentagon Asks for Money to Directly Fund Terrorists
(Matt Agorist) The US government has blurred the lines between terrorists and good guys so much that the Pentagon is actually requesting money to pay terrorists.
Censorship Blocked! House Won’t Sign Global Pact To ‘Combat Extremism’ [Censor Free Speech] Due To 1st Amendment Concerns
(Zero Hedge) The White House said on Wednesday that while it stands by the international community in “condemning terrorist and violent extremist content online,” that it is “not currently in a position” to join a call to action in the name of the Christchurch shootings, spearheaded by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Number Of Terrorist Attacks Decreases Globally
(ZeroHedge) The number of terror victims has decreased globally, from more than 27,000 in 2016 to more than 13,000 in 2018, and as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, the number of global terror attacks decreased during the same time from more than 24,000 to more than 15,000, according to data from the 2018 Global Attack Index by security analyst IHS Markit.
Tulsi Gabbard’s Presidential Campaign to Challenge US Military-Industrial Complex
(Kevin Gosztola) Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii announced she will launch a presidential campaign for 2020. Her campaign is likely to distinguish itself from other Democratic campaigns by making wars and broader United States foreign policy a major issue.
Facebook Censoring Images of Starving Children in Yemen
(Middle East Monitor) Social media giant Facebook has been censoring images of starving children in Yemen, claiming that pictures of malnourished girls constitute “sexual content.”