(2022-02-21). US Turns On Honduran Narco-Dictator Juan Orlando Hernández. popularresistance.org The US government has turned on the right-wing former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, after it spent years supporting him. | Hernández is the latest in a series of brutal authoritarians who were key US allies until they outlived their usefulness, from Iraq's Saddam Hussein to the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo to Panama's Manuel Noriega. | This February, the United States requested the extradition of Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández on charges of trafficking cocaine and guns. Local authorities arrested him on February 15. | Hernández, who is popularly known by his initials JOH, ser…
(2022-02-20). Military Situation In Iraq On February 20, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On February 19, Iraqi special forces reportedly carried out an attack by helicopter on ISIS positions near the border in the Hasakah countryside; | On February 19, an Iraqi engineer was reportedly killed in an armed attack at a gas pipeline construction site in the northwest of Nasiriyah city; | On February 19, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani and Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met with the US Congressional delegation, headed by Senator Lindsey Graham at…