Our Benevolent Empire Ingenious: Threatened by Esper’s Proposed Drawdown AFRICOM Makes Up Iranian African Threat AFRICOM claims Iran will seek to attack them so of course they can't retreat now Jason Ditz 6 Feb 20 689 7
Our Benevolent Empire Israel to Vote Sunday on Annexing 30 Percent of the West Bank The Kushner-Adelson plan already paying dividends for Israeli expansion Jason Ditz 30 Jan 20 325 5
Rockets Hit US Embassy in Baghdad, Cause Damage Seems like Trump's threatening and "two for one" assassinating hasn't exactly deterred Iraqis Jason Ditz 27 Jan 20 819 5
Our Benevolent Empire US Tells Iraq Not Willing to Talk US Troop Withdrawal, Threatens to Cut Country From Key Bank Account Instead The Empire thinks it's up to it Jason Ditz 13 Jan 20 395 4
Iran Gave Advance Notice of Missile Attacks on US Iraq Bases Iran wanted to show what it could do, but was fine with not killing anyone Jason Ditz 9 Jan 20 1261 6
Rogue State USA Trump Bars Iranian FM From Addressing the UN Security Council Afraid of a little speech?? Jason Ditz 7 Jan 20 1135 17
Our Benevolent Empire Trump Threatens to Attack Iranian Cultural Sites As if we didn't know who is the uncivilized one here already Jason Ditz 5 Jan 20 2728 12
Muqtada Al Sadr Reactivates Mahdi Army, After Trump’s Strikes on Iraqi Forces 'Great job' Donald! Jason Ditz 4 Jan 20 2333 8
Rogue State USA The US Assassinates the Deputy Head of Iraqi Armed Forces Branch in Baghdad Drone Strike Along with an admired visiting Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, the architect of victory vs ISIS in Syria and Iraq Jason Ditz 3 Jan 20 1508 13
South Korea Rejects US Troop Cost Demands, Talks End Without Deal No more talks scheduled before deal expires Jason Ditz 19 Dec 19 807 19
US Coast Guard Warns of an “Unsafe” Russian Ship off East Coast A surveillance ship puts the shoe on the other foot Jason Ditz 18 Dec 19 1050 8
Our Benevolent Empire Britain Refuses to Return Its Last African Colony — On Orders of Washington UN ruled UK must return Diego Garcia to its people, but that would interefere with a key military base of the Empire Jason Ditz 25 Nov 19 1532 3
Trump Pardons War Criminals to Show Just How Pro-Military He Is Come 2020 nobody is going to out-hawk him on that one Jason Ditz 16 Nov 19 607 16
Our Benevolent Empire US Says Has Drone Footage of Its Former Rebels Committing War Crimes vs Civilians So then decorate Assad for fighting them then, as well as now? Jason Ditz 13 Nov 19 441 3
Assad: Anybody Will Be Able to Run in Syria’s 2021 Election Doubtless the Empire will make sure the opposition stays clear because it knows it can't win and then protests the vote as illegitimate Jason Ditz 12 Nov 19 546 2
Hello Nuclear Arms Race! Russia Says Already Too Late to Replace New START Before Expiration Trump has now blown up *the entire* architecture of nuclear arms control treaties with Russia Jason Ditz 2 Nov 19 983 6
Esper Confirms US ‘Mechanized Forces’ Will Be Sent to Keep Syria From Its Oil Jason Ditz 26 Oct 19 1043 12
Our Benevolent Empire US Wants NATO to Help Pay for US Troops in Saudi Arabia Esper belives Europeans should be paying the US for 'protecting' Saudi Arabia 'from Iran' Jason Ditz 24 Oct 19 665 6
Trump Now Wants to Leave 200 US Troops Behind to Keep Denying Syria Its Oil Fields The 'cleverest' US scheme since General Custer Jason Ditz 21 Oct 19 1275 5
Our Benevolent Empire Congress Votes to Condemn Trump Ending a War It Never Authorized Start an illegal war and it's all dandy, try to end one and all hell breaks lose Jason Ditz 17 Oct 19 411 1
Israeli Pirate WarPersia Under Siege Iran Says a State Actor Responsible for Attack on Its Tanker, Releases Photos of the Damage Says it has video evidence of missile attack but did not release it yet Jason Ditz 16 Oct 19 574 3
Empire Woes Donald “Maximum Pressure” Trump Left Hanging as France-Brokered Call With Rouhani Fell Apart Trump was sitting there holding a phone waiting for Macron to get Rouhani on the call Jason Ditz 1 Oct 19 837 8
Empire Woes Just 2 Million Show Up for a US-Sponsored Afghan Presidential Election in a Country of 32 Million After the Taliban proclaimed participants are collaborators and would be targeted Jason Ditz 30 Sep 19 260 1