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[Note by Thomas J. Mattingly: Gordon Duff, others at Veterans Today and I have had longstanding relationships with Nigeria, now-President Muhammadu Buhari and many others in and from Nigeria that date to the 1970s.  The U.S., other countries, and many U.S./other banks and corporations are only now offering to assist Nigeria and Buhari.  Our […]

Ted Nugent performing at Charlie Daniels’ 2015 Volunteer Jam at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, Aug. 12, 2015. (John Shearer/Getty Images for Webster Public Relations) (JTA) — Right-wing rocker Ted Nugent came under fire from Jewish groups for an anti-Semitic Facebook postblaming prominent Jews for pushing gun control. On Monday, Nugent shared a graphic featuring images of 12 […]

Board of disciplinary appeals upholds decision against Charles Sebesta, who presented false testimony and withheld information in case of Anthony Graves Amanda Holpuch in New York A Texas legal disciplinary board upheld a decision to disbar a prosecutor who oversaw a case that sent an innocent man to death row. The board on Monday affirmed […]

Editor’s note:  As Sweden prepares to join NATO MOSCOW, TASS/. A team of Russian inspectors will begin a check on Tuesday of military activities in a designated Swedish region under the 2011 Vienna Document on confidence and security building measures, Sergey Ryzhkov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, said. “A Russian team of […]

…from SouthFront Following the recent gains in North Aleppo, the Syrian government has got a chance to use again its forward position at the Kuweires Airbase as a foot-hold to conduct offensive operations against ISIS. West of Kuweires Airbase the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies are conducting a military operation aimed at encircling […]

Treasury officials regularly accepted invitations to lavish dinners with lobbyists for banks that were being investigated for market rigging, a new report has found. The explosive research, which was conducted by the National Audit Office (NAO), was published on Tuesday. It reveals that banking lobby the British Bankers’ Association was a frequent provider of hospitality […]

Russian citizens detained in Turkey on suspicion of terror-linked activities are usually deported to third countries, thus escaping prosecution, says Russia’s ambassador to Ankara. None of them have ever been charged in Turkey. Turkey remains one of the main channels of foreign fighters’ transit to territory under Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) control, Andrey Karlov, […]

Wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015. © Michael Kooren / Reuters 1.2K7 Moscow provided the Netherlands with radar and other data on the MH17 crash but […]

By Russell NewloveBusiness reporter, BBC News How does it feel to give up your nationality, to renounce the country you were born in, potentially forfeiting the chance to ever return? “It’s not going to be easy at all. It’s the last thing I ever thought of doing,” Jane tells me when I meet her in […]

Elliott Adams is a former Army paratrooper in Vietnam, Japan, Korea, and Alaska; and former National President of Veterans For Peace.

Jim and Gordon - We will try to keep these morning Sitreps (situation reports) coming, with the map work included. That is how we routinely do a lot of our Skype briefings for a variety of official and unofficial audiences.

With Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs) Veterans now have more control over the disability claims process. Veterans have the option of visiting a private health care provider instead of a VA facility to complete their disability evaluation form.

With obvious relish Richard Falk, former professor of international law at Princeton and UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine, has issued a well deserved slap on the wrist to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for his naivety.

American defense contractor Northrop Grumman unveiled its vision for the Pentagon’s new futuristic fighter jet on Sunday in a television commercial broadcast to over 100 million viewers during the Super Bowl. The aircraft, which has no tail and fires lasers in a way that will not alert enemies to its presence, flashed across the television screen in a snippet […]

A semi-secret Pentagon plan to convert old war planes into “flying launchpads” or “arsenal planes” to aid stealthier, less weapons-capable planes was mentioned by Defense Secretary Ash Carter in a speech outlining a $583 billion military budget for 2017. TagsMilitary Speaking to the non-profit Economic Club of Washington on February 2, Secretary Carter brought up […]

Something is murky in Crystal City, Texas after almost all city officials were arrested on federal charges accusing them of taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes and helping the head of an illegal gambling operation. The Thursday arrests included Crystal City’s mayor, mayor pro tempore, a former councilman and one of the city’s […]

Ottawa will not participate in airstrikes carried out by the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq from February 22, Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced on Monday. Although the country will conclude its bombing mission and pull six CF-18 fighter jets from the region, it will still maintain two […]

Jim W. Dean - China is getting two dozen Russian SU-35s to tide it over with some decent planes now while it struggles with its J-31 program which will be outdated by the time it is operational.

Jim W. Dean - Aleppo is being cut off from Turkey's ability to get combat supplies into Syria, which will hopefully trigger the jihadis pulling out to blend in with the refugees to get over the border while they can.

Jim W. Dean - Henry Kamens takes us back into the belly of the beast in the Republic of Georgia, where organized crime is tightly woven into the fabric of life, including murdering political figures and prosecutors.

By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor All VT readers know that Bibi Netanyahu and his ultra-Zionist neocons from PNAC did 9/11. Everyone knows they did it to trick the West into fighting Israel’s wars. And everybody understands that getting government deeper into debt to the banksters, rolling back freedom and democracy, creating a “unitary executive” who’s […]