Back when the WWII soldiers left their families and stormed the beaches of Normandy under fire and away from loved ones, they made sacrafices and…
Posts published in “War”
From Steven Portnoy, a reporter with CBS Radio: x BREAKING: @CBSNews has learned US officials are now confident Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner with…
If Donald Trump worked at, say, a pest control company, his incompetence might be funny. You’d see him wobbling around your backyard with a beehive stuck…
As irrational as ever, Trump chose to assassinate another high-value target without thinking about strategic consequences. It could get worse. Trump chose to claim that…
(I posted a longer version of this on my website: https://aftergod.net/2019/06/25/atheism-or-secularism/.) This is partly a definition question, and partly a political one. Basically, an atheist…
This just coming in. Massive explosions are being heard from an Iranian weapons store at Jabal Ezzan / Azan Mount south of Aleppo, immediately after…
A new day. Information will trickle out over time, but let’s begin with what we know now. Let us start with the Pentagon briefing. They…
Syria Conflict Liveblog: Decision to strike taken; US attack underway. Explosions across the country
Syria Conflict Liveblog: Decision to strike taken; US attack underway. Explosions across the country
I’ll start this out relatively empty but update it quickly. Trump has approved strikes on Syria. White House briefing starts in one minute. 21:02 EST:…
NOTE: If you’re a “ChemTruther”… if you disagree with Amnesty International, the OPCW, WHO, MSF, the UN (breakdown), and all public evidence about past attacks, and are here to…
NOTE: If you’re a “ChemTruther”… if you disagree with Amnesty International, the OPCW, WHO, MSF, the UN (breakdown), and all public evidence about past attacks, and are here to do the…
NOTE: If you’re a “ChemTruther”… if you disagree with Amnesty International, the OPCW, WHO, MSF, the UN (breakdown), and all public evidence about past attacks,…
No lead-in needed; we all know what’s happened, and we all know what looks to be in the works. Let’s get into the news, but…
With all of this time that had past, I was convinced, sure, somebody was going to write about the fact that the US looks to be…
President Trump and the U.S. Constitution (and established norms of governing) have been on a collision course since day one of the Trump presidency, but there…
After having initially been delayed by technical problems, the USS Ronald Reagan has joined the Carl Vinson off the Korean peninsula for military drills, including drilling…
You hear it often: if war in Korea were to break out, Seoul would be flattened. Not because of a nuclear strike, but because of…
A great deal of attention has been focused on the connection between North Korea and China, and the pressure China can (or cannot) and will…
Perhaps I’m a glutton for punishment, but I went ahead and geotagged the entire tomahawk strike on the Shayrat airbase. Now you can see at a glance…
While I posted the other day satellite images of the damage, today we have (thanks to pro-Russian ANNA News) the first on-the-ground pictures of what so many here in DK’s…
I rather can’t believe how much Daily Kos is sounding like Sputnik these days: “FEEBLE US ATTACK DOES NOTHING!” . It’s the same everywhere: Meh,…
