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Killing People, Breaking Things, and America's Winless Wars

09-28-2016 • Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt

It's the timing that should amaze us (were anyone to think about it for 30 seconds). Let's start with the conflict in Afghanistan, now regularly described as the longest war in American history.

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Shimon Peres: Israeli war criminal whose victims the West ignored

09-28-2016 • https://www.middleeastmonitor.com, Ben White

Shimon Peres, who passed away Wednesday aged 93 after suffering a stroke on 13 September, epitomised the disparity between Israel's image in the West and the reality of its bloody, colonial policies in Palestine and the wider region.

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Syrian Troops Invade Nusra Front-Held Aleppo, Seize Key District

09-28-2016 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

Farafra District, Near City's Center, Said Captured in Latest Push

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Bombing Everything, Gaining Nothing

09-26-2016 • antiwar.com by Fred Reed

An Obsolescent Military

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Kashmir, The World's Most Dangerous Border

09-26-2016 • Lewrockwell.com By Eric Margolis

The divided south Asian mountain state of Kashmir is like a volcano: forgotten when quiescent, but terrifying when it comes alive.

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The Natural Gas War Burning Under Syria

09-26-2016 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by James Durso

Qatar always wanted to punch above its weight. In Syria, it got the chance.

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Taunting Putin, Syria and Iran:

09-24-2016 • shtfplan.com by Daisy Luther

CIA "Deliberately Picking a World War"

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Mission Accomplished? More US Troops To Iraq

09-23-2016 • https://www.youtube.com

The Pentagon is requesting 500 more US troops on the ground in Iraq, as the long-anticipated battle to retake Mosul from ISIS is expected to begin next month. That would bring the US troop level to around 6,400, with another probably 6,000 or so cont

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The Pretence of Peace

09-22-2016 • https://www.lewrockwell.com

While the cease-fire in Syria, drawn up by the US Secretary of State and his Russian counterpart, seemed to be holding - apart from the Israëli violations on the first day - the Pentagon attacked the Syrian Arab Army for the second time.

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Four Flash Points That Could Trigger World War III:

09-21-2016 • shtfplan.com by Jeremiah Johnson

"We Have Not Been This Close To Nuclear War In A Long Time"

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How a secret US war created a new generation of Americans who changed foreign policy

09-21-2016 • pri.org By Rupa Shenoy

Farmers in Laos saw small balls falling like toys from planes in the sky. Some exploded. Others just lodged in the ground. They called them "bombies." After nine years, one-third of their small country had a bombie on it.

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Truce teeters after raids on Aleppo, Syria troops

09-18-2016 • https://www.yahoo.com

Beirut (AFP) - Syria's ceasefire was on the brink of collapsing Sunday, after a US-led coalition strike killed dozens of regime soldiers and Aleppo city was hit by its first raids in nearly a week.

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Latest Estimate Pegs Cost of Wars at Nearly $5 Trillion

09-16-2016 • theintercept.com by Naomi LaChance

The total U.S. budgetary cost of war since 2001 is $4.79 trillion, according to a report released this week from Brown University's Watson Institute. That's the highest estimate yet.

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Two Boys in Aleppo

09-16-2016 • antiwar.com by Justin Raimondo

But only one gets publicity – and sympathy

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MIDDLE EASTERN SCHOLAR PREDICTS MASSIVE EUROPEAN CIVIL WAR

09-16-2016 • https://www.youtube.com

Mayrse Godden for the Sun UK reports AN ISLAM expert has warned of a civil war across Europe as more young Muslims are being increasingly radicalised. Professor Gilles Kepel, from the Sciences Po in Paris, claims a growing number of Muslims with poor

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Can New Syria Ceasefire Hold?

09-15-2016 • https://www.youtube.com

A new ceasefire in Syria took effect this week. Syria and Russia agreed to not bomb US-backed "moderates" and the US agreed to separate its rebels from al-Qaeda. Will this bring about a political solution to the horrors of the five year war? Or are t

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Hillary Deflates? A Setback For War

09-14-2016 • http://www.thedailybell.com

Yeah, Hillary Has Pneumonia, But Trump Is Still A Deranged Threat To America … Modern medicine can remedy one of these ailments more thoroughly than the other. -Huffington Post

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9/11 and the Treason of Empire

09-12-2016 • antiwar.com by Justin Raimondo

The long road to recovery

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Russia flexes its muscles at the world by releasing footage of drills involving 12,500 troops,...+

09-11-2016 • http://www.dailymail.co.uk

An ominous display of military might: Russia flexes its muscles at the world by releasing footage of drills involving 12,500 troops, fighter jets and anti-aircraft missiles

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Fifteen Years After 9/11, Neverending War

09-11-2016 • https://theintercept.com

when Congress voted to authorize military force against the people who "planned, authorized, committed, or aided" the hijackings, few Americans could have imagined the resulting manhunt would span from West Africa, to the Philippines, and outlast

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Stratfor Founder: "Be Ready for War"

09-09-2016 • thedailysheeple.com

Experts are now saying we're closer to a "catastrophic and bloody" World War III now than at any other time in the past 60 years.