The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks
9/10/2018, 10:32:33 PMThe collective wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1.5 trillion, according to a Defense Department report. ✔ US Marine Corps photo Marines pause during a dismounted patrol with Afghan National Civil Order Policemen during a training mission in Kajaki district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 28, 2013 ✔ Right now, we have more indications that reconciliation is no longer just a shimmer out there, no longer just a mirage, Mattis said
Has starvation become a weapon of war?
9/10/2018, 9:09:36 PMThe highest number of fatalities is expected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where 300,000 kids are at risk. ✔ One child living in a warzone may die of hunger every minute ✔ The group released a report on the use of hunger as a weapon in some of the world's worst conflicts ✔ Under the Statute of the International Criminal Court, intentionally starving civilians is a war crime
This 9/11, end the Afghanistan War
9/10/2018, 10:19:46 PMU.S. presence in Afghanistan cannot prevent future terrorist outrages, writes Barry R. Posen, the Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT. ✔ Seventeen years of war have shown no plausible theory of success to justify additional U.S. costs and more killing in Afghanistan ✔ The Islamic State, more extreme than al-Qaeda and a rival to the Taliban, has a foothold ✔ Pakistan tolerates Taliban havens and may offer them support ✔ If you can't see this reader poll, please refresh your page
Ebola: Outbreak in DR Congo claims 90 lives
9/10/2018, 9:31:33 PMEbola: DR Congo health workers fight to contain virus, as new outbreak claims more lives ✔ This is the ninth time an Ebola outbreak has been recorded in DR Congo ✔ The virus was first discovered there in 1976 - when the country was known as Zaire - and is named after the Ebola river ✔ John Wessels/Oxfam Justin, 36, is a journalist ✔ We must start by training ourselves, the leaders, in awareness so that we can raise awareness in return
Trump planning second North Korea summit after Kim's 'very warm' letter
9/10/2018, 9:24:48 PMWhite House ‘already in the process of coordinating’ meeting after president praises Kim Jong-un for changes to military parade ✔ The White House has claimed the summit as a success and a major step toward denuclearization on the peninsula ✔ We will both prove everyone wrong! There is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other! Much better than before I took office ✔ Trump has called Woodward a liar and the book a scam
17 years after 9/11, Afghanistan remains the war we can't win but can't afford to lose
9/10/2018, 10:19:44 PMAn abrupt U.S. military withdrawal would ease pressure on the Taliban and threaten women's rights: Our view ✔ As if a spigot of pent-up exhaustion was twisted open, Taliban fighters, Afghan security troops and government officials mingled in the streets embracing and snapping selfies ✔ It gave everybody a glimpse of what could be, said Army Gen ✔ If you can't see this reader poll, please refresh your page
Trump administration takes aim at International Criminal Court, PLO
9/10/2018, 8:59:03 PMThe Trump administration on Monday threatened tough action against the International Criminal Court should it try to prosecute Americans for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and said the PLO's office in Washington would be closed for seeking to punish Israel through the court. ✔ ‘WILL NOT COOPERATE WITH ICC’ Bolton said the Trump administration will fight back if the ICC proceeds with opening an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by U.S. service members and intelligence professionals during the war in Afghanistan
Trump's national security adviser issues unprecedented threat to the court in charge of prosecuting international war crimes
9/10/2018, 11:30:28 PMNational Security Adviser John Bolton on Monday made the unprecedented move of threatening the International Criminal Court (ICC) with retaliation, including sanctions, if it follows through with investigations of alleged war crimes committed by US troops and intelligence officials in Afghanistan. ✔ During his speech, Bolton said this move was linked to concerns in Washington over Palestinian attempts to see Israel punished for alleged crimes in the ICC ✔ This unilateral, unorthodox approach to foreign policy has led to historic tensions with key US allies, especially France, Germany, and the UK
I’m a white Christian fighting to bring a Muslim family to the US. Here’s Why.
9/10/2018, 9:35:55 PMFor my country to betray Afghans to be murdered by the same terrorists they helped us fight is both morally reprehensible and strategically foolish. ✔ Afghan security forces pushed back the Taliban from the eastern provincial capital of Ghazni on Tuesday and were trying to flush the insurgents out of the city's outskirts ✔ An Afghan woman carries her girl during the visit of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi (unseen) at the Azakhel Voluntary Repatriation Centre in Nowshera ✔ The only legal recourse now is for members of Congress to take action
Full text of John Bolton's speech to the Federalist Society
9/10/2018, 8:01:11 PMFull text of US national security adviser's speech lashing out at the International Criminal Court and Palestinians. ✔ And here we come directly to the unspoken but powerful agenda of the ICC's supporters: the hope that its essentially political nature, in defining crimes such as aggression, will intimidate US decision makers and others in democratic societies ✔ Inside Story Is the ICC capable of delivering justice
White House says it's working to plan 2nd Trump-Kim meeting
9/10/2018, 10:33:39 PMWASHINGTON-- President Donald Trump has received a request from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for ✔ But on Sunday, the president offered fresh praise for Kim following a North Korean military parade that, unlike past parades, downplayed the missiles and nuclear weapons that brought North Korea to the brink of military conflict with the United States just a year ago
Opinion | The World Must Stop Assad
9/10/2018, 11:48:48 PMIf the Syrian regime attacks Idlib, the result will be a humanitarian and geopolitical disaster. ✔ Turkish women in Istanbul protest Syria’s aggression in Idlib ✔ Certain designated terrorist organizations, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, remain active in this area ✔ Yet those fighters account for a fraction of Idlib’s population ✔ Conventional weapons are responsible for far more deaths
Rescuer hit in airstrike keeps filming the horror in Syria's Idlib
9/10/2018, 8:42:54 PMAnas al-Diab is used to being a rescuer, but on Friday he became a victim as Syrian airstrikes pounded Idlib province, the country's last major rebel-held area. ✔ MUST WATCH Rescuer struck by airstrike while filming 02:48 (CNN)As he had done dozens of times before, Anas al-Diab rushed to film the aftermath of an airstrike in Syria's Idlib province ✔ Up to 3 million people are packed into a rural enclave in Idlib province that borders Turkey to the north
BBC drama Black Earth Rising on the Rwandan genocide
9/10/2018, 9:15:00 PMPlayed by British actress Michaela Coel, Kate locks horns with her adoptive mother, international human rights lawyer Eve, in the tense new BBC drama series which debuted on Monday. ✔ The episode marked the first of the new eight-part drama that is written, directed and produced by Bafta-winner Hugo Blick ✔ The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has sentenced more than 60 people for their involvement, while nearly two million have stood before Rwandan community court
Netherlands ends support to Syrian militants & White Helmets since Assad ‘will soon win’
9/10/2018, 10:48:52 PMThe Netherlands has decided to end its support to militants in Syria, since the program did not yield “expected” results. The move comes as journalists found one of the groups had been labeled as terrorists by the country itself. ✔ At least one of the groups supplied by the Netherlands, Jabhat al-Shamiya, turned out to be labeled a terrorist group by the country’s own justice department, the journalists have revealed ✔ The mounting evidence, however, suggests, that they’ve been actively participating in other sorts of filmmaking, namely staging chemical attacks that were blamed on the Syrian government
What it takes to train as a bodyguard like David Budd in hit BBC thriller
9/10/2018, 9:12:52 PMThe Mirror's Laura Connor joins Princess Diana's former bodyguard to learn how to protect a VIP like Home Secretary Julia Montague, played by Keeley Hawes ✔ A bomb has exploded and the smoke is blocking our path to safety ✔ If you just think about it like you’re looking after a kid, you won’t go wrong ✔ He is very specific about how I must stand and how the gun should be held ✔ This explains why Budd is so insistent on changing routes to Montague’s house, much to her annoyance
The TRUTH about French actor Gerard Depardieu and the Despots
9/10/2018, 9:31:54 PMFrench actor Gerard Depardieu attended a military parade and mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Sunday to mark North Korea's 70th anniversary. ✔ Good screen roles have been thin on the ground lately for Gerard Depardieu, but the enfant terrible of French cinema was back in front of cameras at the weekend ✔ It seems unlikely such an enthusiastic connoisseur of tyrants will lose much sleep over being spotted celebrating the rule of the murderous Kim Jong-un
US relationship with international court crashes under Trump
9/10/2018, 8:19:50 PMWASHINGTON (AP) — America's long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt on Monday as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tri ✔ WASHINGTON (AP) America's long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt on Monday as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. troops in Afghanistan ✔ Bush took office in 2001, his administration promoted and passed the American Service Members Protection Act, which sought to immunize U.S. troops from potential prosecution by the ICC
Trump administration orders closure of Palestinian office in Washington
9/10/2018, 9:45:32 PMThe Trump administration ordered the closure of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington on Monday and threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court if it pursues investigations against the U.S., Israel, or other allies. The moves are likely to harden Palestinian resistance to the U.S. role as a peace broker.… ✔ The Trump administration will not keep the office open when the Palestinians refuse to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel, he said ✔ Just last month, it canceled more than $200 million in aid for projects in the West Bank and Gaza as well as the remainder of its planned assistance for the U.N ✔ This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
I battled for Britain, now please help me save my little girl's life
9/10/2018, 10:31:11 PMAnupreet ‘Anu’ Amole, from West London, needs to raise more than £100,000 for a vital operation which could save his daughter, Daya, from cancer. ✔ There is a striking photograph of Anupreet ‘Anu’ Amole taken in the Afghan desert badlands during the British Army’s Operation Herrick VI in 2007 ✔ Her parents put this down to teething until Pam found a lump below her rib cage ✔ The fundraising is still some way short of what is needed
Oil steadies as U.S. inventory concerns curb gains
9/10/2018, 9:12:36 PMOil prices were mixed on Monday, pulling back from an early rally after data suggested U.S. crude inventories might build, weighing on the market. ✔ A higher oil price scenario is built on lower exports from Iran due to U.S. sanctions, capped U.S. shale output growth, instability in production in countries like Libya and Venezuela and no material negative impact from a U.S./China trade war on oil demand in the next 6-9 months, said Harry Tchilinguirian, oil strategist at French bank BNP Paribas
Opinion | Trump’s policies are damaging more than our dignity
9/10/2018, 10:24:30 PMThe consequences of the president’s warped worldview are only growing worse. ✔ Hampered by inexperience and incompetence, the administration is pursuing a radically un-American agenda that should alarm progressives and conservatives alike ✔ But she has had a negative impact on public education merely through her studied inattention ✔ David Von Drehle: The only solid bet is on Trump’s panic (but the op-ed was probably Jared)
Unrest in Iraq’s south deals fateful political blow to pro-U.S. premier
9/10/2018, 9:42:17 PMPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s bid for a second term has all but ended as allies and opponents blame him for violence. ✔ The top U.S. envoy to Iraq, Brett McGurk, had recently been in Iraq to rally support for Abadi among Sunnis and Kurds in an effort to construct a parliamentary majority in his favor ✔ Reflecting Abadi’s diminished status, protesters took to the streets on Monday night following his meetings with provincial officials and civil society figures to demand he leave Basra
Rebels, Turkey prepared for battle, but assault could be delayed
9/10/2018, 9:20:16 PMWhile Syrian forces and rebels step up preparations for battle for Idlib, sources say all-out attack may not start soon. ✔ Yet, if a solution is not reached, Turkey could resort to a military intervention to dissolve HTS by force, added Rahal ✔ But Ilter Turan, a professor of political science at Istanbul Bilgi University, cast doubt on such a prospect ✔ Umut Uras (@Um_Uras) reported from Doha, Qatar
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