Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Houston-area police departments are using the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey to justify increasing the ability of local law enforcement to access military weaponry and vehicles. …
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America Now
Breaking the No Nation-Building Promise? Increase in US and NATO Troops Set for Afghanistan
In his August speech on Afghanistan strategy, President Trump declared, “We are not nation-building again.” Why, then, was it announced Wednesday that almost 1,000 additional US and NATO troops are …
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In October, US forces were ambushed in Niger by reportedly ISIS-affiliated fighters. While the mainstream media focused their reporting around President Trump’s remarks about Obama’s conversations with the families of …
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In joint testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Congress should not repeal the Authorization for Use …
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In a hearing prompted by the killing of four US troops in Niger on October 4th, Defense Secretary Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated that there is no …
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President Trump’s controversial ban on transgender people enlisting in the military was partially stonewalled by federal court judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction which halted two key provisions …
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In a move that generated surprise among veterans, military contractors, and lawmakers, President Trump has signed a broadly worded executive order authorizing the Secretary of Defense to institute a mini-draft …
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The United States Air Force has an addiction and Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that it’s going to cost five billion …
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In a country that seems increasingly polarized along ideological lines and a Congress that is paralyzed along party lines, it’s good once in a while to remind ourselves that, while …
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Breaking News
Situational Awareness – Violence in Florence, Middle East, Africa
by Bruce Haringby Bruce HaringRUSH TO JUDGMENT: Everyone by now knows what happened in Florence, Missouri last week. It’s just that opinions differ depending on whom you ask, and everything is based on hearsay. …