Russia says they could use nuclear weapons: Russia’s military chief of staff said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes to protect itself and its allies, the latest aggressive remarks from increasingly assertive Russian authorities. Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky’s comment did not mark a policy shift, military analysts said. Amid disputes with the […]
We dare not call what is happening in Iraq a civil war, even though this news does support that claim: July appears to have been the deadliest month of the war for Iraqi civilians, according to figures from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue, reinforcing criticism that the Baghdad security plan started in June […]
Now we have the latest in over dramatizing events in Iraq. The latest is “Operation Swarmer”. Time Magazine has uncovered how this has been nothing more than a media blitz: Four Black Hawk helicopters landed in a wheat field and dropped off a television crew, three photographers, three print reporters and three Iraqi government officials […]