The Pentagon Considers This Russian Sniper Rifle a Big Threat to US Soldiers. The NRA Helped Promote It.
In late 2016, the US Army released a report noting that the Russian military, through experience gained during fighting in Ukraine, was undergoing a transformation and becoming a more potent battlefield threat to American forces. One troublesome development identified by the report’s authors was the increased proficiency of Russian snipers. “The capabilities of a sniper…
Trump Just Blew Past Two Deadlines for Reporting How Many Civilians The US Kills
Smoke rises from Mosul, Iraq, following a US-led coalition airstrike in February 2017. Khalid Mohammed/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, the same day that 23 civilians were killed in suspected US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria, the Trump administration missed two deadlines for reporting civilian casualties from Ameican military…
Steve Mnuchin Spent Nearly $1 Million in Taxpayer Dollars on Eight Flights
Michael Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new set of documents obtained by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington shows that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spent nearly $1 million in taxpayer dollars on eight trips, opting for military aircraft over commercial flights. Through a Freedom of Information Act…
Donald Trump’s Nukes Plan Puts the Whole World in Peril
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared at TomDispatch.com. If you’re having trouble sleeping thanks to, well, you know who, you’re not alone. But don’t despair. A breakthrough remedy has just gone on the market. It has no chemically induced side effects and, best of…
Actually, the US Has a Rich Tradition of Military Parades. But Normally They’re After Military Victories and Stuff.
Harry Harris/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As has now been widely reported, in a meeting last month, President Trump told high-ranking military officials that he wanted a military parade. But over history the United States has generally left military parades as a chest-thumping show of force to less self-assured despots—and Russia. The…
11 Historical Moments That Gave Us President Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by TomDispatch. The present arrives out of a past that we are too quick to forget, misremember, or enshroud in myth. Yet like it or not, the present is the product of past choices. Different decisions back then might have yielded…