Antiwar.com Weekly Newsletter for October 1, 2020

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October 1st, 2020

US Special Ops Using Secret Drone Missiles in Northwest Syria

Earlier this month, the US assassinated a leader of an al-Qaeda offshoot group in Syrias Idlib Province, in the countrys northwest. The strike was carried out using a drone and a secretive missile that uses blades to shred the target to death. The missile, known as the Ninja Hellfire or the R9X, does not explode and is designed to limit civilian casualties.

By Dave DeCamp

Report: US Top Supplier of Arms in the Middle East

A new report from the Center for International Policy (CIP) found that from 2015 to 2019, the US was the number one supplier of weapons in the Middle East and North Africa, supplying 48 percent of the regions arms. Combining the US arms with its European allies, the Western countries provided nearly three-quarters of the weapons used in the area for that period.

By Dave DeCamp

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Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Medias Role in Status Quo

It is an old journalistic trope: no one reads the correction or the retraction. No matter how serious the error or profound the implications of the misreporting. Like, lets say the entire range of mainstream media took the word of unnamed intelligence sources as gospel and reported that the only other nuclear superpower which supposedly rigged our last election, and runs our current president as an asset had been offering Afghan militants bounties for the scalps of dead American soldiers. Then, for the sake of argument, imagine that just two months later, the top U.S. commander for the Greater Mideast announced that his sizable intelligence staff hadnt found a single shred of proof that satisfies [him]. And that the generals comments reflected a consensus view among military leaders. One might expect an immediate, and front-page corrective-retraction, right?

By Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)

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Hearing Reveals US Govts Invisible Hand in Protests Around the World

Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee grilled Michael Pack, who President Trump recently appointed to head the US governments state propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

By Dave DeCamp

Counter-Recruitment in the Time of Covid

In 2016-17, the U.S. Army visited Santa Maria High School and nearby Pioneer Valley High School in California over 80 times. The Marines visited Ernest Righetti High School in Santa Maria over 60 times that year. One Santa Maria alumnus commented, Its as if they, the recruiters, are on staff.

By Kate Connell and Fred Nadis

Julian Assange Could End Up at Colorado Supermax Prison

WikiLeaks found Julian Assange could end up in one of the most notorious prisons in the US if extradited and convicted for espionage charges, a court at Londons Old Bailey heard on Tuesday.

Maureen Baird, a former warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, testified during the extradition hearing. Baird said Assange would be held in isolation under Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) in pre-trial detention, as well as later if convicted due to the national security aspect of the case.

By Dave DeCamp

American Foreign Policy: The Problem of Applying the Monroe Doctrine Everywhere

Kevin Gosztola: Week Four of the Assange Extradition Hearing

Azerbaijan and Armenia Reject Talks as Fighting Continues

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