These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. These days, whenever you check out the news, it seems to be war, war, war — a focus today for TomDispatch regular Nan Levinson,...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 07:34 AM PST
with 3 Recommends
|
From Twitter, the U. S. and Britain are bombing places in Yemen where the Houthi have places that are making drones, etc.
by TexMex
on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 04:09 PM PST
with 40 Recommends
|
I remember as an undergrade studying international relations reading a book called Bombing To Win. The book looks at several wars and air power and tried to figure out why bombing the hell out of your enemy usually DID NOT work to end a war quickly. In...
by dblecircle
on Fri Mar 10, 2023 at 08:12 PM PST
with 150 Recommends
|
5 individuals (4 men, 1 woman) have been arrested for six seven bombing incidents in and around Fresno, CA. I was surprised because I had not heard there were serial bombers active in Fresno. I know Fresno isn’t LA or New York but you think it might’ve...
by MisterC
on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 08:42 AM PST
with 381 Recommends
|
First…How did her dad just happen to decide to ride in someone else’s car the one time this happened? Did he know? Second….Russia will try to spin that this is the work of Ukraine. I can’t imagine they’d risk something like this inside Russian border...
by jdaron23
on Sun Aug 21, 2022 at 05:27 AM PDT
with 24 Recommends
|
Like the siege in Mariupol, the Russians have trapped more than 300 troops and 800 Civilians in a massive Chemical plant in Severodonetsk, Ukraine. www.business-standard.com/... President Zelensky: “The fate of our Donbass is being decided there, now.”...
by GaryNaham
on Sun Jun 12, 2022 at 08:23 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
|
George W. Bush bashes Putin, admits his own guilt On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, the self-proclaimed “war president” who started the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 gave a speech, during which he ...
by Mark Hennon
on Sun May 22, 2022 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
|
A pair of explosions outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday have reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least 60 people, with another 140 wounded. Among the casualties are U.S. service members who were located at the Abbey Gate, one of...
by Mark Sumner
on Thu Aug 26, 2021 at 11:54 AM PDT
with 125 Recommends
|
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Think about this: on Saturday, May 12th, with barely an hour’s notice, Israel took out the al-Jalaa Tower, a high-rise building in...
by TomDispatch
on Tue May 25, 2021 at 07:46 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
|
Netanyahu has probably been planning this attack on Gaza since 2015. Making peace isn’t in his wheelhouse. Israel launches heavy airstrikes on Gaza as pressure increases on US to intervene BY JOHN BOWDEN Israeli forces launched a wave of airstrikes...
by Lefty Coaster
on Sun May 16, 2021 at 07:13 PM PDT
with 35 Recommends
|
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri is one of a few elected Republican officials that Democratic officials believe should be investigated for their part in inciting and leading the insurrection of our country’s Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. Sen....
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Jan 25, 2021 at 11:36 AM PST
with 234 Recommends
|
Pamela Perry, a girlfriend of Anthony Warner, the 63-year-old white man who set off the explosion in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, early in the morning on Christmas Day, apparently told police last year that Warner was making bombs in his...
by Marissa Higgins
on Wed Dec 30, 2020 at 09:46 AM PST
with 114 Recommends
|
If the bomber in Nashville had been from the Middle East, or a Muslim, the incident would almost certainly have been called an act of terrorism. But that description hasn’t been applied to bombing by the media, for the most part. Or so it seems to...
by EarthTone
on Mon Dec 28, 2020 at 09:27 AM PST
with 7 Recommends
|
5:05 p.m. Authorities say the man suspected off setting off a bomb in a recreational vehicle that rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas Day died in the explosion. U.S. Attorney Don Cochran identified the suspect on Sunday as Anthony Quinn Warner....
by MTmofo
on Sun Dec 27, 2020 at 02:30 PM PST
with 143 Recommends
|
While the earlier announcement that some amount of human remains had been found among the wreckage of the RV that exploded in Nashville, TN on Christmas morning left some wondering if there was any surviving bomber … it appears the answer may be...
by Mark Sumner
on Sat Dec 26, 2020 at 10:18 AM PST
with 248 Recommends
|
The account told by those nearby is essentially the same: At 4:30, in the pre-dawn hours on Christmas day, there was first what appeared to be several bursts of very rapid gunfire. Whether these were actual gunshots, or a recording of...
by Mark Sumner
on Sat Dec 26, 2020 at 06:23 AM PST
with 229 Recommends
|
www.nytimes.com/…
The Times obtained thousands of air force recordings, which reveal for the first time that Russia repeatedly bombed hospitals in Syria.
------------
Not that I’m surprised.
by MightyMoose
on Mon Oct 14, 2019 at 04:45 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
|
The FBI did its job and arrested Conor Climo before he could carry out his hate crime. Climo was your typical neo-nazi hater…. he wanted to blow up a gay bar and a Jewish house of worship. Being gay and Jewish I take the actions of such scum...
by BFSkinner
on Sun Aug 11, 2019 at 04:04 PM PDT
with 110 Recommends
|
Tension has risen between India and Pakistan after India staged an air strike on Pakistani territory. This was packaged as a retaliation for a suicide bomb attack in Indian controlled Kashmi. The supposed targets were the bases of insurgent groups...
by Lib Dem FoP
on Tue Feb 26, 2019 at 06:29 PM PST
with 31 Recommends
|
Please don’t judge until you read the whole story. I’m a retired educator (teacher, principal, and adjunct college math instructor). I've also worked with unemployed youth & adults to provide them the skills and education so they could get and...
by Polly First
on Sun Oct 28, 2018 at 11:26 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
|