After eight years, two investigations and the intervention of a congressman, Maj. Matthew Golsteyn is being charged with murder in the death of an Afghan man during a 2010 deployment. “Sufficient evidence exists to warrant the preferral of charges against him,” U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman Lt. Col. Loren Bymer …
T.E. Lawrence And How He Became Lawrence Of Arabia WHO DID WHAT IN WW1? The Great War EGYPT: The 1956 Suez Crisis: On the Brink of Nuclear War Lies, Tantrums, Vendettas, and Bluffs of Dying Empires and Shifty Super Powers Empires and Imperialism: Piracy on a Grand Scale By Dr. Vann Spencer (aka Dr. Martin …
Bush as Director of Central Intelligence “I think we should think of the CIA as a national asset that must be preserved as a vital part of our defense system. . . It is important that the American people understand the intricate job the CIA is doing in an increasingly complex world. It is essential …
Stasi Operations in the Netherlands, 1979–89 by Beatrice de Graaf [1 CIA In the year 2000, the case of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had sued the German Office of the Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the German Democratic Republic (BStU) for releasing files concerning his political activities before 1989, …
The Secret Lives Of The Stasi By Amos Chapple RFE Chilling photos uncovered by a German artist reveal the Stasi’s methods to monitor and terrorize their citizens. 1An elderly woman posting a letter on a winter day in communist East Germany (GDR). 2A woman pushing through the door of the U.S. Embassy in East Berlin. …
US Senate Votes to End Backing for Saudi War Effort in Yemen VOA Michael Bowman The U.S. Senate on Thursday dealt a historic rebuke to Saudi Arabia, a longtime U.S. ally, passing a resolution to end American support for the kingdom’s military intervention in Yemen’s civil war and another measure condemning the killing of a …
Embedded With Special Forces in Afghanistan Coffee or Die Magazine’s Marty Skovlund Jr. was given exclusive access to embed with a Special Forces team in the mountains of Afghanistan, and accompany them on a combat mission into ISIS-held territory. These Green Beret’s fit the common tropes associated with Special Forces: beards, long-ish hair, and relaxed …
Embedded with Special Forces in Afghanistan Coffee or Die Magazine’s Marty Skovlund Jr. was given exclusive access to embed with a Special Forces team in the mountains of Afghanistan, and accompany them on a combat mission into ISIS-held territory. The mission was to check out a vehicle that had been abandoned on a target range …
