U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels Want No-Fly Zone
The Syrian rebels the United States has offered to arm and train for the fight against Islamic State terrorists say they need a...
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CFR Calls Obama’s Orwellian UN Address “Impressive”
Bush-era State Department bureaucrat Stewart M. Patrick proclaimed President Obama's Orwellian address to the...
Don’t Look Now, But 1,600 (x2) U.S. “Boots on the Ground” in Iraq
Americans have repeatedly been reassured that the counterterrorism offensive (or whatever it is that's...
Obama Bombs ISIS in Syria; U.S. Officials Tout Regime Change
After having already handed Libya to al-Qaeda-linked jihadists with help from NATO and the...
House Puts Hold on War Powers Resolutions Until After Elections
In a clearly politically calculated move, the House of Representatives has reportedly placed an...
Senate Votes to Arm Syrian Rebels; Paul Rips War Enablers
The sound and fury in Thursday's Senate debate signified grave doubts, but it ended...
Obama’s “Moderate Rebels” Sign Deal With ISIS, Report Says
The supposed “moderate” rebels fighting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad — self-styled jihadists whom the...
Finding Syrian Moderates: “Who’s on First, What’s on Second…”
Members of Congress might feel a bit like comic Lou Costello in the famous...
Amid Doubt, House Votes to Arm and Train Syrian Rebels
In a bipartisan display of reluctant cooperation, the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted...
Defense Officials Present Dim Picture of War Against ISIS
Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee on September 16, the nation’s two top...
American Sentenced to Six Years Hard Labor in N. Korea
On September 14, North Korea’s Supreme Court convicted U.S. citizen Matthew Miller of committing...
Obama Issues “No Ground Troops” Flip-Flop
The Obama administration has completed its second flip-flop on his Syrian war policy in...
Kerry Said It’s Not a War Before He Said It Is
President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the Congress are reluctant to say...
Follow the Money: War Hawks and the Military Industrial Complex
There is an unholy alliance between pro-war pundits and the producers of war materiel....
To Battle ISIS Jihadists, Obama Will Arm More Jihadists in Syria
Even though the Obama administration’s previous unconstitutional support for jihadists and rebels in Syria...
Sotloff’s Killers Tipped Off by Moderate Rebels, Family Spokesman Says
The killers of Steven Sotloff were tipped off about the journalist's location by "so-called...
Obama Wants “Buy In” From Congress on Plan to Battle ISIL
President Obama wants Congress to have a "buy in" to the plan for combating...
Obama Promises to do to ISIS What He Did to Al-Qaeda
President Obama promises to "go after" ISIS the way he went after al-Qaeda. ...
Sanctions Boomerang, Threaten U.S. Supply of Russian Rocket Engines
Continuing foreign entangling alliances are beginning to have unhappy consequences for the United States....
U.S. Troops Reported Fighting in Iraq
The official U.S. government line is that there aren't any U.S. forces fighting in...