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Wednesday December 18, 2019 The Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives is expected to vote for two articles of impeachment against President Trump today and the articles are expected to die in the Republican-controlled Senate. Is Congress doing its Constitutional duty to remove a president abusing his power and obstructing Congress, or is this a prosecution in search of a crime? Watch today's Liberty Report...read on... Wednesday December 18, 2019

On December 14th an air cargo transport of Belgian FN armsfrom Ostendwas supplied to Misrata rebels by a United Arab Emirates contractor. Whether the UAE weapons shipment was contracted to undertake an uprising in Misrata prior to Erdogan's clash with Tobruk (Haftar) and Greece over Misrata and the proposed Turkish energy corridor is unclear. Misrata rebels have supplied cheap oil to Turkey and acted somewhat autonomously. Now, the potential for a major new catastrophe in Libya cannot be ignored.read on... Tuesday December 17, 2019 Three died and eight were injured when a Saudi military officer went on a shooting spree at a Pensacola, Florida airbase. The Pentagon insists Saudi military officers are properly vetted, but they are revisiting their vetting process anyway. Maybe vetting is not the real issue? Watch today's Liberty Report...read on... Tuesday December 17, 2019

The Washington Post hasobtaineda confidential trove of government documents revealing that senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. But many of us knew and wrote that the war was unwinnable from the beginning, although none of the Western mainstream media would publicise any such judgement.

In 2005 Iwrotethat The insurgency in Afghanistan will continue until foreign troops leave, whenever that might be. After a while, the government in Kabul will collapse, and there will be anarchy until a brutal, ruthless, drug-rich warlord achieves power. He will rule the country as it has always been ruled by Afghans: by threats, religious ferocity, deceit, bribery, and outright savagery, when the latter can be practiced without retribution. And the latest foreign occupation will become just another memory.

In 2007 GW Bush, up until 2016 the worst US president in memory,declaredthat Our goal in Afghanistan is to help the people of that country to defeat the terrorists and establish a stable, moderate, and democratic state that respects the rights of its citizens, governs its territory effectively, and is a reliable ally in this war against extremists and terrorists. But after 18 years of war, following the 2001 invasion, it has been Mission Unachieved.read on... Tuesday December 17, 2019

If you need more proof that lawmakers in the US couldnt care less about Americas woeful commitment to human rights abroador even care about the public who vote them into officelook no further than the recent Afghanistan papers and the reaction to the publications from Congress.

According tothe Washington Post, the outlet had obtained 2,000 pages of notes from interviews with more than 400 generals, diplomats, and other officials directly involved in the war. The documents showed that US officials were lying about the progress being made in Afghanistan, lacked a basic understanding of Afghanistan, were hiding unmistakable evidence that the war had become unwinnable, and wasted close to $1 trillion in the process.

Barely a few hours following the Posts publication, Congressrewardedthe Pentagon for its stellar efforts with a $22 billion budget increase. How can we as a society justify this?

One stand-out statisticamong the many concerning onesis the fact that before the US invasion the Taliban had almost completely put to bed Afghanistans illicit opium trade. Since the US invasion, combined with $9 billion in US funding for anti-opium programs, the Taliban is not only stronger than it ever was but sits cemented in a country that now supplies 80 percent of the worlds opium.

I cant help but think this was done on purpose.read on... Monday December 16, 2019 New documents released by Wikileaks confirm that within the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons there was a massive push to alter the findings of the "Fact Finding Mission" sent to Douma, Syria to investigate an alleged gas attack last year. Now 20 inspectors have claimed that their conclusions were left out of the report, which was re-written with conclusions opposite to what they found. Who forced them to fake the report and why? Watch today's Liberty Report...read on... Monday December 16, 2019

We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didnt know what we were doing. So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lutes cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war.read on... Saturday December 14, 2019

In a bombshell report last week, the JusticeDepartment Inspector General found thatthe Federal Bureau of Investigation made fundamental errors and persistently deceived a secret court to authorize surveilling a 2016 Trump presidential campaign official. Inspector General Michael Horowitz did not find that the FBIs actions were spurred by political bias but that conclusion is not necessarily shared by Attorney General William Barr. Unfortunately, this is only the latest episode of decades of FBI misconduct before Americas most powerful secret court.

Perhaps the most jolting revelations in the IG report detail the FBIs efforts to secure a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) search warrant to use against the Trump campaign after suspicions were raised of Russian collusion. A FISA warrant is the nuclear bomb of searches, authorizing the FBI to conduct, simultaneous telephone, microphone, cell phone, e-mail and computer surveillance of the US person targets home, workplace and vehicles, as well as physical searches of the targets residence, office, vehicles, computer, safe deposit box and US mails, as a FISA court decision noted. The FISA court is extremely deferential,approving 99% of all searchwarrant requests.read on... Saturday December 14, 2019

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State..Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This week, the venerable Washington Post newspaper revealed a bombshell, 2,000 page, secret Pentagon report detailing the astounding failure of US war strategy in Afghanistan, Americas longest war.

Americans have been fed a steady stream of lies about the Afghan War, concluded the Post. So asserted this writer in American Conservative magazine in 2003 when the US invaded Afghanistan.

`We didnt have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking, admitted three star General Douglas Lute who commanded US forces in Afghanistan under Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama.

Arrogance and ignorance, backed by mammoth brute force, led US policy in the remote Asian nation. Attacking Afghanistan was revenge for the 9/11 attacks against the US. As this writer saw first hand in Afghanistan, all the claims about Osama bin Ladens terrorist training camps in Afghanistan were lies. 9/11 was not planned in Afghanistan.read on... Saturday December 14, 2019

The New York Timeslast week publishedshocking drawingsby Guantanamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah showing in graphic detail the types of tortures he endured at the hands of CIA officers and contractors at secret prisons around the world. The drawings were sickening. With a childs simplicity, they showed the irrational cruelty of the CIAs torture program, which weakened our country, violated domestic and international law and ended up saying so much more about us, as Americans, than it did about the terrorists who wished us harm.read on...

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