Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ Trump Bans Use of Arabic Numerals— President Donald Trump has issued an executive order banning the use...

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+ For Israel, Annexation of the West Bank Is a Long-Established Goal—When Israeli prime ministers are in trouble, facing difficult election...

+ Palestinians: Forever Refugees—The United Nations has designated June 20 World Refugee Day. Like othe...

+ The Flaw in Tulsi Gabbard’s Foreign Policy—Earlier this month Congresswoman and 2020 presidential hopeful Tulsi G...

+ Crowdstrike Never Produced Final Report on Alleged Russian Hacking—CrowdStrike, the controversial cybersecurity firm that the Democratic ...

+ War With Iran Would Become ‘Trump’s War’—President Donald Trump cannot want war with Iran. Such a war, no matte...

+ US Sanctions: Economic Sabotage That Is Deadly, Illegal, and Ineffective—While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers...

+ Be Skeptical of Alleged Naval Provocations—Maybe they did; maybe they didn’t. That’s not the point. Even if...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Anti-ISIS Air Strikes; 23 Killed—Operations in Nineveh and Kirkuk provinces left almost two dozen milit...

+ Pompeo, End Times, and False Flag War on Iran—A main issue with wars, indeed Sun Tzu’s first admonition, is that war...

+ America Last: The Real Meaning of the Donald’s Deplorable Aggression Against Iran—In the present era of 24/7 "breaking news", the journalistic i...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: PKK Targeted in Turkish Strikes; Seven Killed—More Turkish strikes in northern Iraq. The post <I>Iraq Daily R...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Turkish anti-PKK Operation Continues; Five Killed—Operation Claw continues in northern Iraq. The post <I>Iraq Dai...

+ Russia Sees Through Trump’s Iran Bluster, but Has Middle East Problems of Its Own—President Donald Trump won’t go to war with Iran. That was the predict...

+ DoJ Bloodhounds on the Scent of John Brennan—The New York Times Thursday morning has bad news for one of its favori...

+ Russiagate Is No Watergate—"History is repeating itself, and with a vengeance," John Dean...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Crop Fires Leave More Casualties; Eight Killed Across Iraq—Arson at Iraqi farms is leaving casualties. The post <I>Iraq Dai...

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+ Turkey Unveils New Fifth-Generation Jet TF-X, Indigenous Alternative to F-35—Just as Turkey lost access to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Figh...

+ Saudi-led coalition intercepts new Yemeni rebel drone—A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen intercepted a Huthi rebel dron...

+ Turkey’s Erdogan says S-400s delivery for early July—Turkey expects the delivery of the controversial Russian S-400 missile...

+ Turkey Rejects U.S. Ultimatums, Vows Not to Back Down on Russia Missile Deal—Turkey will not back down from its decision to buy Russian S-400 missi...

+ US Air Force Conducts Successful Hypersonic Weapon Flight Test—The U.S. Air Force successfully conducted the first flight test of its...

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+ Shanahan Out; Army Secretary Esper to Be Acting SecDef—Trump tweets the news after reports that the FBI was looking into a vi...

+ How to Step Back from the Brink with Iran—Right now, everything both sides do to strengthen their defenses looks...

+ This Kansas Aircraft-Parts Supplier Is Flying High on Secret Military Projects—A longtime maker of airliner parts, Spirit Aerosystems is finding new ...

+ House Democrats Want To Kill This More Useable Nuke. They’re Right.—There are no good arguments for the W76-2 warhead, and quite a few goo...

+ More troops to Mideast; More debris in Boeing tankers; More junk in space; More strikes on Somalia; And a bit more.— [Category: News]

+ Boeing Tankers Still Have Debris; Fix is ‘Months, Maybe Longer’ Away—But the Air Force is once again accepting aircraft so that new inspect...

+ The Coming Flood of Space Junk Can’t Be Stopped by Technology Alone—Giant nets may help, but nations must solve the problem with new rules...

+ Iran Has Options and It’s Starting to Use Them—Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign has not forced Tehran to yiel...

+ Fight Deepfakes with Cyberweapons and Sanctions, Experts Tell Congress—Social media companies and the federal government must help fight hype...

+ US levels more accusations at Iran; CYBERCOM’s malware in Russia’s grid; Proposed stealth jets unveiled in Paris; Why is deterrence failing? And a bit more.— [Category: News]

+ How L3 Technologies Is Culture-Shifting Its Way into the Industry’s Top Tier—Over the past 18 months, the company has overhauled its structure and ...

+ How the Climate Crisis Threatens the US Energy System—The U.S. military is the largest customer of the U.S. electricity grid...

+ Europe's Elections Suggest US Shouldn’t Be Complacent in 2020—The lesson is not that elections are secure, but that Russian and othe...

+ Deterrence Is Failing — Partly Because Iran Has No Idea What the US Really Wants—Successful deterrence requires clear delineation of acceptable and una...

+ Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter Talks Iran, China, and Trump’s Late-Night Tweets—“I don’t want to have a war with Iran, but I know who would win.” [Cat...

+ Vetting Foreigners’ Facebook Feeds Won’t Make Americans Safer—The federal government wants visa applicants to cough up their social-...

+ Tanker video released; US hypersonic test; Election-interference bill blocked; Fake LinkedIn accounts; And a bit more.— [Category: News]

+ US Blames Tanker Attacks On Iran; CENTCOM Releases Surveillance Video—Military officials say imagery shows Iranians in boats at the tankers,...

+ Paris Air Show preview; A startling 'top threat'; UTC-Raytheon merger reax; and more.— [Category: Business]

+ Trump’s Efforts at Election Tampering Are Growing Bolder—Having exploited foreign assistance in 2016 and gotten away with it, t...

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+ With Glider Swarms and Hard Kill for Self Protection MBDA Charts the Future of Air Warfare—MBDA provided today a fresh vision of future air warfare. A range of f...

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+ Quem são os incendiários dos petroleiros—Enquanto os Estados Unidos preparam uma nova escalada no Médio Oriente...

+ Chi sono gli incendiari di petroliere—Mentre gli Stati uniti preparano una nuova escalation in Medio Oriente...

+ US and Canada Are Backing an Elite White Supremacist Minority in Venezuela—“Racism is one of the main engines and expressions of the current coun...

+ False Identities Become the New Weapon: War with Iran Promoted by Fake Journalists—One of the claims made about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 ...

+ US Teachers’ Strikes: A New Class Politics Emerging—In the spring of 2018, teachers and school staff across the United Sta...

+ NATO Consolidation: The “Baltic Reassurance Act” Is a Ruse for Provoking Russia—The proposed “Baltic Reassurance Act” aims to more closely...

+ Hong Kong’s Extradition Bill Is Not in China’s Interests—One country, two systems. One event, two interpretations. The crisis i...

+ Letter to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf Demands Fracking Permit Pause, Investigation of Cancer Crisis—Over a hundred groups and more than 800 individuals from Pennsylvania ...

+ US-India Military Cooperation: Pompeo Might Have the “Perfect Carrot” to Dangle in Front of Modi’s Mouth—The US is planning to include India on its International Traffic in Ar...

+ Medical IDs: Enemy of Privacy, Liberty, and Health—Last week, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a Labor, Hea...

+ U.S. Sanctions: Economic Sabotage that Is Deadly, Illegal and Ineffective—While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers...

+ Video: Turkish Artillery Struck Syrian Army Positions Near Idlib—On June 16, Turkey said on that its forces had struck positions of the...

+ The Trump-Bolton Duo Is Just Like the Bush-Cheney Duo: Warmongers Using Lies to Start Illegal Wars—[False flag operations:] “The powers-that-be understand that to create...

+ Gulf of Oman Recalls Gulf of Tonkin Lies. The Use of “Deepfake Videos” Could Lead to Global War—If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a millio...

+ World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities—The extent of devastation inflicted upon Japan by the American militar...

+ The Management of Savagery – How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump—Even though the ending is known, Max Blumenthal’s book The Management ...

+ Iran at the Center of the Eurasian Riddle— With the dogs of war on full alert, something extraordinary happened ...

+ US Foreign Policy Exposed—In the last week, the realities of US foreign policy have been exposed...

+ False Flags: The Process of “False Flagging” the World towards War. The CIA Weaponizes Hollywood—Almost all wars begin with false flag operations. The coming conflicts...

+ People’s Tribunal on War Crimes by South Korean Troops During the Vietnam War—… The post People’s Tribunal on War Crimes by South Korean Troop...

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+ Canada, Japan navies enhance interoperability in South China Sea—Key Points The navies of Canada and Japan have completed a series of ...

+ Shanahan out, US Army secretary tapped to head Pentagon—US Army Secretary Mark Esper has been tapped to take over as the actin...

+ Paris Air Show 2019: New air-combat training consortium looks for opportunities in GCC—Red Sky, a new consortium led by French business people based in the U...

+ CENTCOM says Iranian MANPADS fired at UAV—Iranian personnel attempted to disrupt US surveillance of one of the t...

+ US shipping ‘emergency’ munitions to Saudis—The United States is in the process of delivery munitions to Saudi Ara...

+ Australia progressing plans to upgrade Cocos Keeling Islands airport to support P-8A MPA operations—Australia is moving ahead with plans to upgrade facilities at the Coco...

+ Russian military activity increases on Norway’s borders—Russian marines and air-assault troops began amphibious landing exerci...

+ Bulgaria to take over air policing of North Macedonian airspace—Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has confirmed that the Bulgaria...

+ Spain opts to discontinue exercise series with USN—Spain has decided to cancel the remainder of a near year-long series o...

+ Indonesian Air Force establishes two new operational squadrons—The Indonesian Air Force (Tentara Nasional Indonesia – Angkatan Udara:...

+ US blames tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman on Iran—US officials claimed on 13 June that they had identified Iran as the c...

+ Pentagon to send 1,000 additional troops to Poland, including an MQ-9 Reaper squadron—As part of Washington’s plan to beef up troop numbers inside Poland an...

+ Yemeni rebels claim second cruise missile attack—The Iranian-backed Yemeni rebel group Ansar Allah (Houthis) claimed on...

+ Russian FSB Border Guard and USCG start joint patrols in Bering Sea—The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Border Guard and the US Coa...

+ Saudi THAAD locations revealed—Saudi Arabia is looking to establish nine sites related to the Termina...

+ Spain says parliament must approve basing US helicopters in Rota—The US Navy will need approval from the Spanish government to add a he...

+ UK Royal Marines stand up programme office to lead Future Commando Force—A programme office to lead the UK Royal Marines Future Commando Force ...

+ USCG deploys second cutter to the Western Pacific—The US Coast Guard (USCG) Legend-class National Security Cutter (NSC) ...

+ RNZN to re-set for future challenges in 2020s—The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) is set to enhance its capabilities o...

+ ‘Tobruq Legacy 2019’ prepares Germany, Netherlands to go Dutch on NRF VJTF air defence—Germany and the Netherlands are using NATO’s biggest air defence exerc...

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+ SPIEF 2019 Results: Bee Pitron to Consult India on IT—Experts of the Russian engineering company Bee Pitron are preparing to...

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+ Is India Trying to Suppress Military Analysts on Twitter? —David Axe Security, We looked over the evidence. You decide.  Fol...

+ Stealthy XQ-58 Valkyrie Makes 2nd Test Flight (It Could Make the F-35 Better)—David Axe Security, Here's how.  The U.S. Air Force’s future dron...

+ Hitler's Flamethrowers Were a Gruesome Weapon of War—Warfare History Network History, Europe They could kill. The U.S....

+ How Winston Churchill Attacked What Could Have Been Hitler's 'New' Battleship—Warfare History Network History, Europe Thanks to France. As the ...

+ The List: Top 3 .308 Semi-Automatic Rifles on the Planet Today—Gun News Daily Technology, Americas Here's what you need to know. ...

+ The Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Has Some Serious Issues to Fix—Task and Purpose Technology, Americas Can it be done? Oh the probl...

+ Could This Be the Most Powerful AR-15 On the Planet?—Gun News Daily Security, Americas Take a peek. If you’re serious ...

+ It Took 5 Ton Bombs To Sink Hitler's Last Super Battleship—Warfare History Network History, Europe The end of an era. The Ro...

+ Maxim’s Machine Gun Slaughtered Hundreds of Thousands of People—War Is Boring Technology, Europe New weapon arrived just in time fo...

+ Naval Expert: Why Russia Never Built Lots of Aircraft Carriers—Robert Farley Security, Europe Simple. The aviation capability of ...

+ The List: Meet the 5 Best Semi-Automatic Guns Around—Kyle Mizokami Security, Americas Do you agree with this? Introduce...

+ The 5 Things You Need to Make a Glock or Sig Sauer Truly Deadly—Kyle Mizokami Technology, Americas The bullets. Dum Dum bullets we...

+ Do Trump's Polls Matter?—Hunter DeRensis Politics, United States The Trump campaign’s pollin...

+ The Dire Necessity of Strategic Concessions and Relationship Building in U.S.-North Korea Relations—Adriana Nazarko Security, Asia Strategic patience and maximum press...

+ How the A-10 Warthog Could Become North Korea's Worst Nightmare—Stephen Bryen Security, Asia This plane needs to stick around. The...

+ For Your Eyes Only: Cherry-Picking Intelligence in the Trump Era—Paul R. Pillar Security, Americas Presidential administrations have...

+ Sudan's Political Turmoil Creates Window of Opportunity for Washington—Joe Boueiz, Olivia Giles Security, Middle East America can work to ...

+ Does America Face a Threat from Within?—Daniel Byman Security, Americas In both the United States and Europ...

+ The Myth of Indian Strategic Restraint—Sumit Ganguly Security, Asia Indian security policy is guided more ...

+ Iran Has Become Trump’s Foreign Policy Nightmare—Seth J. Frantzman Security, Middle East The United States is weighi...

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+ Raytheon, Northrop Grumman partner on hypersonic missile system—Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 Northrop Grumman will develop, produce...

+ Turkey says US ultimatum over Russian S-400 'not in spirit of alliance'—Ankara (AFP) June 18, 2019 Turkey accused the United States on Tues...

+ New Pentagon chief an ex-soldier who moved to the defense industry—Washington (AFP) June 19, 2019 Secretary of the Army Mark Esper, wh...

+ Shanahan's Pentagon rise upended by painful family past—Washington (AFP) June 18, 2019 Patrick Shanahan - a onetime Boeing ...

+ AEHF-5 encapsulated and prepared for launch—Titusville FL (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 The U.S. Air Force's fifth Lockhee...

+ Iran says CIA spy network dismantled as tensions ratchet up—Tehran (AFP) June 18, 2019 Iran said Tuesday it had dismantled a US...

+ Strait of Hormuz: imbalance of forces and guerilla warfare—Dubai (AFP) June 18, 2019 The deployment of 1,000 more US troops to ...

+ Xi hails friendship with N. Korea in state newspaper—Seoul (AFP) June 19, 2019 Chinese President Xi Jinping has written a...

+ Pompeo: US must be able to respond to any Iranian attack—Washington (AFP) June 18, 2019 The United States must have the capab...

+ U.S. military lifts troop curfew in South Korea in 90-day test—Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 The commander of U.S. Forces Korea li...

+ Russia, China, block US effort to halt N. Korea fuel deliveries—United Nations, United States (AFP) June 19, 2019 Russia and China ...

+ Russia warns US over extra troop deployment to Mideast—Moscow (AFP) June 18, 2019 Russia on Tuesday called for restraint to...

+ US announces $250 million in military aid to Ukraine—Washington (AFP) June 18, 2019 The United States announced Tuesday ...

+ MQ-9 Reaper drone shot down over Yemen on June 6, CENTCOM says—Washington (UPI) Jun 17, 2019 U.S. Central Command confirmed that a...

+ KC-46 fix months away as more debris found in new refuelers—Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 As the U.S. Air Force continues to fi...

+ Providing access to space through innovation—Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 As the space domain continues ...

+ Iran sets 10-day countdown to surpass uranium limit—Tehran (AFP) June 17, 2019 Iran on Monday set a 10-day countdown fo...

+ US piles pressure on Iran with troop deployment, new photos—Washington (AFP) June 17, 2019 The United States ratcheted up pressu...

+ 'Fewer but newer' nuclear arms in the world—Stockholm (AFP) June 17, 2019 The overall number of nuclear warhead...

+ China's Xi to visit North Korea this week ahead of G20—Beijing (AFP) June 17, 2019 Xi Jinping will make the first trip to N...

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+ New energy-efficient algorithm keeps UAV swarms helping longer— Washington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 - A new energy-efficient data rout...

+ Uber eyes drones for food delivery, unveils new autonomous car— Washington (AFP) June 12, 2019 - Uber said Wednesday it plans to sp...

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+ Syria Situation Report: May 27 - June 11, 2019—By ISW's Syria Team The following Syria Situation Report (SITREP) Map ...

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