Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs To Stave Off War With Russia By Joe Lauria, Consortium News. March 24, 2022 Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs To Stave Off War With Russia2022-03-242022-03-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220324-8.jpg200px200px Above Photo: The Pentagon. Two leaked stories from the Pentagon have exposed the lies of mainstream media about how Russia is conducting the Ukraine war in a bid to counter propaganda intended to get NATO into the conflict. The Pentagon is engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war. President Joe […]
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Above photo: August 2020 U.S. drone strike in Kabul killed 10 Afghan civilians. Getty Images. The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports have been published since 2007 to document the number of bombs and missiles dropped by U.S.-led air forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria since 2004. But President Trump stopped publishing them after February 2020, shrouding continued U.S. bombing in secrecy. Over the past 20 years, as documented in the table below, U.S. and allied air forces have dropped over 337,000 bombs and missiles on other […]
Food Not Bombs was founded in 1980 to provide direct aid to people while educating about the perversion of spending so much on the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) while tens of millions of people do not have the basic necessities. It has turned into a global movement to build food sovereignty and organize systems outside the establishment. Clearing the FOG speaks with Keith McHenry, the co-founder of Food Not Bombs, about the criminalization of homelessness, their recent legal victory in Florida and why we must be concerned about increasing homelessness in the United States and the overall direction the country is going. […]
The U.S. Army Contracting Command announced in a Jan. 14 notice posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website that Army is looking to buy Mk-80 series general-purpose and BLU-109 hardened penetration bomb kits. In a notice posted on the Federal website, the Contracting Command in Rock Island said it is issuing sources sought announcement in an effort to identify capable sources for the production and delivery of all of the Tritonal Bomb Kits for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-2027. The proposed deal most notably includes MK-80 Series Bombs (MK-81, MK-82, MK-83, and MK-84) and BLU-109/B tritonal bomb kits. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING […]
“That was the worst SNL monologue I’ve seen in years.” “@nbcsnl please never let this bill person host ever again.” “Bill Burr can fuck off. #SNL” “I can’t believe I’m able to tweet after clawing my eyes out.” It probably is worth noting that those are the immediate reactions of gay men on social media after comedian and King of Staten Island star Bill Burr’s Saturday Night Live monologue, which went after cancel culture, the hypocrisy of white women being woke, and then an extended bit about not knowing what Gay Pride Month was in New York City. The extent of […]
Many relationships face the most passion and temper in the beginning, but for some people, things become most dramatic only after the love is gone and the couple splits up. A Northampton County man named Jason Muzzicato, suspected for launching a drone to drop bombs near the house of his ex-girlfriend, has received a five-year sentence on weapons charges, according to federal court documents. The series of small blasts that the community of Bangor, Maine, saw last year appeared to be a squabble between ex-lovebirds becoming way too passionate. After being arrested during an investigation into the blasts, Muzzicato was charged […]
Aerospace giant Boeing was awarded a $2,2 billion contract by the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center on 24 September to manufacture and deliver Small Diameter Bombs under a multiyear buy contracting arrangement. The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is awadred under the Small Diameter Bomb Increment I weapon program. “This contract provides for a guaranteed minimum Lot 15 award and a five-year ordering period for Small Diameter Bomb Increment I, focused lethality munition, containers and carriages for the Department of Defense and Foreign Military Sales partner nations, according to a recent DoD statement. – ADVERTISEMENT – […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean There is no peace for Lebanon. After the alleged nuclear attack on the port of Beirut which caused more than 200 deaths and thousands of injured by destroying an important part of the city and also devastating an Italian military base, Israel is still targeting the border areas with the territories occupied by the Zionists. Beirut: Deep State “Killed” Shia-Christian Govt. Ex Zionist MP: “Blast as Nuclear Bomb. I hope it was Israel” In recent days, the Lebanese paramilitary forces of Hezbollah (also an important Shiite political component in Parliament) reported that they […]
Pressure On Netanyahu Mounts As Israel Bombs Gaza Again By Steve Topple, The Canary. August 24, 2020 Pressure On Netanyahu Mounts As Israel Bombs Gaza Again2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/netanyahu-protested-e1598295796710.jpg200px200px Above photo: Israeli PM – YouTube and Wikimedia. Additional images and reporting by PA News Agency. Embattled Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been facing pressure at home and abroad amid his government’s continued bombing of the Gaza strip. With protests in both Jerusalem and the UK, Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has continued. And the Israeli PM is refusing to back down on all fronts. Netanyahu: pressure at home The PA news agency reported that on Saturday 22 August, thousands of protesters marched […]
Indian police have captured a man suspected of plotting attacks in the name of ISIS in the country’s capital. He was apprehended after a firefight, as authorities launched a search for his possible accomplice. Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police Special Cell Pramod Kushwaha described the suspect, Abdul Yusuf Khan, as a “lone wolf who had planned to attack the national capital.” Khan was intercepted while riding a motorcycle and detained after a brief firefight. Police did not report any casualties during the operation. A handgun and two homemade pressure cooker bombs – items that are often used in terrorist attacks, including […]
On Bombs And Bombings August 21, 2020 On Bombs And Bombings2020-08-212020-08-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/israel-bombings-of-gaza-from-twitter.jpg200px200px Above photo: Israel bombing of Gaza August 2020 from Twitter. For a full week now the Israeli army has been bombing Gaza, a population that is about to run out of fuel for its only power plant due to a years-long Israeli program of deliberate siege warfare. Yesterday the US ordered an airstrike on Syrian forces, killing one, when they refused to let the illegal occupying force past a checkpoint in northern Syria. In both cases, an arm of the US-centralized empire used wildly disproportionate force against people who stood against a hostile occupation of their own country. […]
Indian security forces killed six Naga separatists during a three-hour gunfire battle near the Myanmar border on Saturday. A haul of weapons and two bombs were recovered at the scene, and one Indian soldier was injured. The deadly incident took place in Longding district in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh early on Saturday morning as part of a counterinsurgency operation with the police, the Indian Army and the Assam Rifles, India’s oldest paramilitary force. Also on rt.com BJP leader & family shot dead by militants in Kashmir The Indian forces exchanged heavy fire with the militants, who “fired at least […]
Doctors, Not Bombs, Needed For Humanity To Save Itself By Raúl Antonio Capote, Resumen English. July 1, 2020 Doctors, Not Bombs, Needed For Humanity To Save Itself2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/cuba-overseas-e1593629637512.jpg200px200px Above photo: Cuban doctors provided aid to Italy during the pandemic. At a time when the world is hit by one of the most dangerous pandemics in human history, the United States is arming itself for war. It allocates millions of resources to this sector, over and above basic services such as health, in the country with the most confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the planet. “With nearly three million troops in service, 4,800 defense sites […]
Guardian: The call came over Tony Manu’s police radio one March day in 2017: some sort of pipe had exploded in the hills outside Pocatello, Idaho and the son of a well-known local doctor was hurt, or worse. Manu, a long-time detective with the county sheriff’s office, was shocked. A pipe bomb in Pocatello? At the home of Dr Mansfield and his family, he found a frightening scene. On the driveway, just outside the sprawling timbered house, the family’s dog, Kasey, was dead. Inside the home, Canyon Mansfield, 14 years old, the youngest of three children, was sobbing. His head was pounding […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor President Bunker Boy goes down in flames tonight, despite picking Red State Oklahoma as a safe place to have his first rally. If it bombed here, where else could he fill a large auditorium, other than with delegates to the convention who have to show up? God only knows that there was endless money available to bring even fake Trump supporters in. Will the campaign now be offering free deluxe vacations to attend rallies, with ‘Epstein girls’ thrown in for free for those who book early? Vice President Pence, not aware of the disaster awaiting […]
The UK government has breached its own guidelines requiring it to conduct regular inspections of controversial weapons factories making bombs used by Saudi Arabia in its aerial campaign in Yemen, a new report says. The purpose of regular inspections is to check whether weapons producers fulfill the conditions of their export licenses. However, inspectors last visited US arms giant Raytheon’s missile factories in Glenrothes, east-central Scotland, in November 2016, and in Harlow, Essex, in November 2015. This means Britain has breached its own guidelines requiring the inspections to be conducted “every three years” at a minimum, investigative websites Declassified UK and […]
An anti-racism and anti-police brutality protest in Newcastle has been met by a large crowd of counter protesters, that gathered to “protect” local historical monuments. The tensions escalated into scuffles between rival groups. Large groups of right-wing protesters emerged in central Newcastle on Saturday, gathering around Grey’s statue and a nearby war memorial at the Old Eldon Square. Veterans and bikers protecting this war memorial in Newcastle, they’re also protecting a St George and the Dragon statue just down the street, great job all round. pic.twitter.com/2WHRiPQ6hw — Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) June 13, 2020 The protesters have been faced by a group […]
US Park Police found “baseball bats & metal poles hidden along the street” near the White House on Tuesday evening. Smoke canisters and pepper balls were used to disperse the rioters and prevent them from using their secreted weapons. Via Paul Sperry. BREAKING: US Park Police chief says USPP & Secret Service found “baseball bats & metal poles hidden along the street” near the White House. Smoke canisters & pepper balls were used to disperse the rioters (tho “no tear gas was used”) & prevent them from using the secreted weapons — Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) June 2, 2020 TRENDING: NY Attorney […]