War

Two days after Israel provided the first ever official confirmation of covert ties with Saudi Arabia, a step many analysts see as a precursor to future conflict in the Middle East involving adversaries Iran and Lebanon, on Tuesday the head of the Lebanese Army told the military to be at “full combat readiness” to face “the Israeli enemy” at the country's southern border. The announcement comes as Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia, vow to tighten their grip on Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia.

Imagine if the $5.6 trillion that it is now estimated to have been spent on 16 years of US global wars had been put to better use?

Imagine how families would have been able to afford education if the value of the dollar had not been inflated away to fund the military industrial complex.

In today's Liberty Report Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams discuss a new Brown University study concluding that the endless wars have cost three times more than the Pentagon estimated:

Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com,

One of the many quiet escalations in countries where US military operations on the ground hadn’t really been well publicized in the first place, officials say that the US has more than doubled the number of ground troops in Somalia this year, and now have over 500 troops there.

This is the most troops the US have had in the country since 1993, when the Black Hawk Down incident killed 18 US soldiers and led to a quick withdrawal from the nation.

Less than a day after a 61-year-old Japanese citizen was killed when a Marine collided with his car in Okinawa, U.S. Forces Japan announced that it was cutting off local liberty for all troops in the region and prohibiting the consumption of alcohol until further notice.

Submitted by Elijah Magnier, Middle East based chief international war correspondent for Al Rai Media