Daily Archives: January 12, 2022

2022-01-12: News Headlines

_____ (2022-01-11). Hey, Hey, USA! How Many Bombs Did You Drop Today? popularresistance.org The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports have been published since 2007 to document the number of bombs and missiles dropped by U.S.-led air forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria since 2004. But President Trump stopped publishing them after February 2020, shrouding continued U.S. bombing in secrecy. | Over the past 20 years, as documented in the table below, U.S. and allied air forces have dropped over 337,000 bombs and missiles on other countries. That is an average of 46 strikes per day for 20 years. This endless bom…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-11). The Settler Colonial Origins of the Five Eyes Alliance. libya360.wordpress.com John Price A depiction of the Battle of Amoy, fought between British and Chinese forces during the First Opium War. Painting by Michael Angelo Hayes/Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection/Wikimedia Commons. Amid the wreckage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have turned their sights on China. University of Victoria…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-11). Four ISIL terrorists detained in Iraq's Sulaymaniyah. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (MNA) — The Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that the Sulaymaniyah Intelligence and Security Directorate managed to arrest four ISIL terrorists in the province.

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-01-11). US logistics convoys come under attack in Samawah, Baghdad. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (MNA) — Iraqi news sources reported that two US military logistics convoys were targeted in Samawah and Baghdad on Tuesday morning.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-11). Canada, Racial Profiling, and the Five Eyes. libya360.wordpress.com John Price Far from enhancing Canadian security, CSIS and the Five Eyes alliance are enmeshing this country in a campaign of disinformation and propaganda regarding China reminiscent of the McCarthy era, writes John Price. Illustration courtesy RS Kingdom. Amid the wreckage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have turned…

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