War

US airstrikes not helping Iraqis retake Tikrit.

US denies killing Iranians with drone strike.
The New York Times leaked the truth about the phony US war on ISIS.

"“We don’t trust the American-led coalition in combating ISIS,” said Naeem al-Uboudi, the spokesman for Asaib Ahl al-Haq, one of the three groups which said they would withdraw from the front line around Tikrit. “In the past they have targeted our security forces and dropped aid to ISIS by mistake,” he said.
Hakim al-Zamily, one of the leaders of the Sadr group, said his group had warned it would pull out of the Tikrit fight if the Americans were brought in. “We don’t trust the Americans, they have targeted our forces many times in so-called mistakes,” he said.
Mr. Sadr, whose troops fought bitter battles against the Americans during much of the Iraq war, said his group was pulling out because, in his words, “the participation of the so-called international alliance is to protect ISIS, on the one hand, and to confiscate the achievements of the Iraqis, on the other hand.”"

This report is a mistake. Somebody at the NYT is going to pay.

US strategy backfiring in Syria. They used ISIS as an excuse to attack Syria, but ISIS is getting stronger and Assad offers to negotiate.

Remember those WMDs that supposedly weren't in Iraq. Supplied by the US, they were used against US troops.

"During and immediately after the first Gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in January 1991 were exposed to nerve gas and other chemical agents. Though aware of this, the Department of Defense and CIA launched a campaign of lies and concocted a cover-up that continues today.

A quarter of a century later, the troops nearest the explosions are dying of brain cancer at two to three times the rate of those who were farther away. Others have lung cancer or debilitating chronic diseases, and pain."

Bush and company decided it was better to wrongly be branded liars than to admit the weapons were US made.