War

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

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, in opening remarks to the Arab League today, declared that the kingdom “will not hesitate to defend its national security to keep its people safe” while requesting that joint action be taken to stop Iranian "aggression" and attacks on Arab states.