As US Pivots from Afghanistan to Yemen, Al-Mahrah Copes with Increasing Military Presence

Residents in eastern Yemen see the surge of U.S. military personnel as malign and colonial in nature and worry that it will bring not only chaos and instability to their region but could also bring with it the infamous human rights abuses and horrific violations that took place in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
بواسطة Ahmed Abdulkareem
US troops in Yemen

AL-MAHRAH, YEMEN -- Eastern Yemen has been largely spared the country’s grueling six-year war, with U.S. military personnel in the region, once a rare sight, garnering little more than a curious stare from the passing onlooker. But a new sense of anxiety has settled over the residents of the eastern Al-Mahrah Province amid stories of violent

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Defense Sectary Visits Hawkish Atlantic Council to Announce US Troop Buildup on Russia Border

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper visited the notorious Atlantic Council, funded by a who’s who of weapons makers and despotic regimes, to announce that the US would not, indeed, be withdrawing troops from Germany but sending them to Russia’s border instead.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Troop Withdrawal Germany

The United States was supposed to be sending thousands of troops home from Germany. But Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced yesterday that they would instead be redeployed eastwards, right on the Russian border in some cases, supposedly to deter “growing Russian and Chinese threats.” “It’s common sense,” the senior Trump administration

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Enormous Crowds at Iraq’s Million Man March Tell America to Leave for Good

An estimated 2.5 million Iraqis descended on Baghdad to stage a “Million Man March” calling for an end to the nearly 17 year-long U.S. occupation of their country.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod

People from all over Iraq have descended upon its capital Baghdad, heeding the call from influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for a “million man march” calling for an end to the nearly 17 year-long U.S. occupation of the country. Images from the event show seas of peaceful crowds walking together through the city center. Sayed Sadiq al-Hashemi,

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Iraqis to the United States: What Part of “Go Home” Don’t You Understand?

Even amongst Iraq’s more pro-US factions, the calls for “Yankee go home” have grown increasingly louder.

Steven Sahiounie
بواسطة Steven Sahiounie
Iraq US Feature photo

Iranian forces launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two military bases housing US troops in Iraq early hours of Wednesday morning. The al-Assad airbase in western Iraq was hit by 17 missiles, and 5 targeted at a base in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.  No US casualties were immediately reported. Iran’s supreme leader,

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Pentagon Bets Against Korean Peace with Indefinite Troop Presence, New Missile Defense

Reports from a questionable thinktank claim North Korea nuclear weapons development continues as the U.S. commits to an indefinite troop presence and new missile defense systems.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
U.S. and South Korean military soldiers pray during a ceremony marking the U.S. Memorial Day at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, May 24, 2018. Ahn Young-joon | AP

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – After the recent Singapore summit kick-started peace talks aimed at ending hostilities on the Korean peninsula, the tone among many Koreans, Americans and other observers was optimistic, as a peaceful resolution to the conflict seemed within reach. Yet, while peace on the Korean peninsula is something most continue to hope for,

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Bernie Sanders Demands Answers Over US Ground Troops in Saudi Arabia

“I’ll be seeking further clarification on these activities. We must prevent the U.S. from getting dragged into another never-ending war.”

Jake Johnson
بواسطة Jake Johnson
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaks during a town hall meeting

As yet another news cycle was dominated by the latest chapter of the President Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels controversy on Thursday, the New York Times quietly published an alarming report detailing a secret U.S. Green Beret operation along Saudi Arabia's border with Yemen that was launched by the Trump White House late last year with no debate,

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