Jason Ditz

Pentagon To Spend Close To $500 Million On Guantanamo Expansion

The Pentagon envisions some $500 million in new spending, with roughly half set aside for a five-bed hospital, leading to criticism that the plan costs $50 million per bed.

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While President Trump is still trying to sort out exactly how to word his executive order,  but the plan is clearly to expand the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and start throwing more detainees into the facility. The Pentagon’s planning ahead on picking up spending at the site. The Pentagon envisions some $500 million in new spending,

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Report: Saudis Double Yemen Airstrikes In 2017, Civilian Casualties Mounting

Yemen suffered more airstrikes in the first half of this year than in the whole of 2016, increasing the number of civilian deaths and forcing more people to flee their homes

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Report: Saudis Increasing Yemen Airstrikes, Killing More Civilians

Throughout 2016, the UN High Commission for Refugees counted 3,936 airstrikes in Yemen. The newly released figures for the first half of 2017 show that previous figure, which covered an entire year, is already far surpassed, with 5,676 air strikes launched by the end of June. This has turned an already catastrophic humanitarian situation, with

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South Korea Reserves Right To Veto US War With North Korea

President Moon campaigned on a return to diplomacy with North Korea, but has seen his brief time in office dominated by repeated US threats to destroy North Korea.

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South Korea Reserves Right To Veto US War With North Korea

In an unusually pointed statement on the ongoing fear of a US attack on North Korea, South Korean President Moon Jae-in gave a speech insisting that he has absolute right to veto any US military action against North Korea, and intends to do so. Moon declared the decision needed to be made “by ourselves and not by anyone else,” adding that he

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Justice Department Demands IP Address Of 1.3. Million Visitors To Anti-Trump Website

This is a virtually unprecedented public demand for data, doubly concerning since it appears the demands are based purely on the potential political beliefs of the end users because of the content they’ve read.

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A protester stands in front of a riot police line during a demonstration after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington. (AP/John Minchillo)

Web hosting company DreamHost has issued a new statement today on their company website, revealing that they have been served with a search warrant by the Department of Justice, which is seeking information about visitors to an anti-Trump website they host. The targeted site is DisruptJ20.org, which is involved in anti-Trump public protests, and

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US Officials See Arming Ukraine As Chance To ‘Pressure’ Russia

President Trump opposed arms shipments to Ukraine during his campaign, but now maybe reconsidering in order to appear tough on Russia.

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US Officials See Arming Ukraine as Chance to ‘Pressure’ Russia

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump was adamantly opposed to the idea of arming Ukraine, seeing it as contrary to a potential diplomatic rapprochement with Russia. As with a lot of candidate Trump’s positions, President Trump’s position seems to be shifting. The possibility of arming Ukraine is now the topic of intense debate within

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US Airstrikes In Afghanistan Kill 16 Civilians, Mostly Women And Children

The civilians were reportedly attempting to flee an ISIS advance when they were killed by a U.S. airstrike.

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Friends and family pray during a funeral procession for victims of a U.S. airstrike in the Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. (Photo: Twitter @Qadir Sediqi‏)

Afghan officials today confirmed that US airstrikes targeted and killed at least 16 civilians, mostly women, and children, in the eastern Nangarhar Province, targeting the civilians as they tried to flee out of an ISIS-held district where heavy fighting has been ongoing. The governor of the Haska Meena District said that the attacks targeted

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Trump Walks Back Previous Statement, Says Iran ‘Not In Compliance’ With Nuclear Deal

Trump didn’t offer any details on what Iran wasn’t complying with, likely because the IAEA, responsible for actually keeping track of the deal, continues to certify that Iran is in compliance.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd after speaking during a rally opposing the Iran nuclear deal outside the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 9, 2015. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Less than a month ago, President Trump admitted that Iran was in compliance with the P5+1 nuclear deal. It was clear he wasn’t happy with it, and reports were that the admission came after a bitter fight with his cabinet, who warned him against falsely claiming Iran wasn’t complying. Even though literally nothing has happened between then and

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