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Former UK Treasury Secretary and Prime Minister Says US Deceived UK Into Supporting US Invasion of Iraq

Gordon Brown says the US defence department knew that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction but kept Britain in the dark and that there was no justification for the invasion and war.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gordon-brown-says-pentagon-misled-uk-over-case-for-iraq-invasion/ar-AAusrOs?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Update: A Commerce spokesman told Fox News that Ross was not involved with Navigator’s decision to engage in business with Sibur, a publicly traded company, which was not under sanction at the time and is not currently. The spokesman also said Ross, the Trump administration’s point man on trade and manufacturing policy, “never met” Shamalov, and generally has supported the Trump administration’s sanctions against Russia, while recusing himself from matters focused on transoceanic shipping vessels.

Authored by Duance Norman via Free Market Shooter blog,

Recently, Free Market Shooter (as well as the US Navy) questioned the cause of a string of crashes involving Navy destroyers and cruisers... all occurring this year:

Recently, the US military, unable to come up with a cause for the incidents, began investigating something else – “compromised computer systems”:

 

Authored by Darius Shahtahmasebi via TheAntiMedia.org,

The U.S. government has spent a staggering $1.46 trillion on wars abroad since September 11, 2001, according to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) periodical “Cost of War” report. As International Business Times reports, this amounts to $250 million a day for 16 years consecutively.

Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review,

Whether preplanned or inadvertent, one of the most likely and far-reaching consequences of the fake news RussiaGate scandal is that Facebook and other social media giants might soon come under strict regulation by the state.