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The rebel attack on Mariupol, Ukraine is underway as noted earlier today in Attack on Mariupol Begins; 7,000-8,000 Ukrainian Forces Nearly Encircled in Northern Cauldron; US Sends Army Trainers.
"American Sniper," like the films pumped out in Germany during the Nazi era to exalt deformed values of militarism, racial self-glorification and state violence, is a piece of propaganda, a tawdry commercial for the crimes of empire.
As American Sniper passes $200 million dollars in box office receipts, Bill Maher stated his opinion that chris Kyle loved killing savages, and that a talented director had glorified a psychotic killer. One panelist stated the Tea Party loves...
In the April, 2004 report, titled "A Strategy for Integrating Ukraine into the West," Ronald Asmus argued that one "important reason why Ukraine is so important strategically has to do with the Greater Middle East."
"The accent is clearly a Brooklyn or Jersey accent. Possibly Boston but definitely New England based. The cap, uniform and ammo belt is standard US Special Forces or 'Academi' mercenary outfitting. The soldier is Carrying an AKS-74...
Officials say the number of troops involved has not been determined at this time, and that the troops are part of an effort to strengthen the "rule of law" in the country.
During the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2014, U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) deployed to 133 countries--roughly 70% of the nations on the planet--according to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bockholt...
The war you're heading into has been going on for a remarkably long time. Imagine this: you were 5 years old when I was first deployed to Afghanistan in 2002. Now I'm graying a bit, losing a little up top, and I have a family.
Machine-gun wielding battle robots are going to be tested in Russia's Astrakhan region for use by the country's Strategic Missile Forces, the Interfax news agency reported Friday.
AlterNet has learned that an amendment to the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have forbidden US assistance, training and weapons to neo-Nazis and other extremists in Ukraine was kept out of the final bill by the Republican-l
Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across the border into Iraq for an
Senator Rand Paul and his wife posted a holiday message on youtube recently in which Rand says "As we come together to celebrate this holiday season, let us pause for a moment to remember the brave men and women serving...
After a months-long hiatus, a special immigration program designed to attract recruits with certain skills will be up and running once more in the next several weeks.
A NASA team is putting the finishing tweaks on its amazing, and somewhat creepy, climbing robot RoboSimian, a four-limbed automaton built to compete in a U.S. military robotics challenge in 2015.
The U.S. Army has prosecuted about 1,900 cases of desertion since 2001, despite tens of thousands of soldiers fleeing the service in the face of deadly combat, long and multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and strains on military families.
6 airmen at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, were among 11 people arrested in a child exploitation sting targeting base personnel. All are charged with obscene Internet contact, computer and electronic pornography and child exploitation.
Imagine you possess the 15th-largest economy in the world. You have world-class cars and consumer goods, glittering streets and a lifestyle as good as any in the industrialized world.
A Ukrainian soldier who was part of the crew that operated the supposed missile-battery that the Ukrainian Government claims shot down the Malaysian MH17 airliner on July 17th has testified publicly for the first time,...