In response to the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, which left 50 people murdered in cold blood, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pledged that her government would draft new firearms legislation and ban semi-automatic “assault weapons” such as the AR-15 pattern rifles the gunman used. The New York Times editorial board beamed with their headline, […]

“The Kurds have no friend but the mountains,” as the old saying goes. Yet there are few mountains in Northern Syria, where the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) formed a coalition with Arab militias called the Syrian Democratic Forces to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The […]

The gunman livestreamed himself driving towards the mosque. The camera pans to his collection of firearms laying on the passenger seat.  They are covered in writing.  Upon closer inspection they have the names of people like Bajo Pivljanin, a Serb who fought against the Ottoman empire in 1600’s, and Sebastiano Vernier appears written on his […]

Chinese telecom giant Huawei filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, claiming the National Defense Authorization Act banning the installation of their hardware in federal defense systems is unconstitutional. The lawsuit complaint states: Plaintiffs Huawei Technologies USA, Inc., and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (collectively, “Plaintiffs” or “Huawei”), by and through their attorneys, bring this action […]

In 2010, Chelsea Manning, then US Army Specialist Bradley Manning, approached Wikileaks and was responsible for the largest leak of classified information in American history.  She claims to be ideologically motivated and felt that the American public needed to know what was in the leaked documents, a disclosure often compared to the Pentagon Papers.  President […]

On Tuesday, a Florida man attempted to board an airplane at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania with a realistic but non-functioning rocket-propelled grenade (RPG-7) launcher and inert PG-7 anti-tank rocket. A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) search discovered the launcher and rocket in the passenger’s checked bag. When found at his gate preparing to leave […]

Night fell over the desert. U.S. Air Force aircraft soared overhead, lowering their ramps and emptying their cargo into the night sky. Vehicles were heavy dropped on pallets while operators assigned to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta parachuted out into the darkness, conducting a military free-fall jump. Hitting their assembly area below, the operators quickly […]

Chris Osman and Chris McKinley (formerly known as Chris Heben) were arrested this weekend in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on conspiracy charges.  Also arrested in the same group was a former US Marine named Kent Kroeker and several Serbian contractors identified as Bajavic Danilo, Vlad Jankovic and three others named Estera Michael, Daniel Dustin, and Burton Talon.  […]

MH-6 Little Birds and MH-60 Black Hawks helicopters buzzed downtown Los Angeles this week as a part of a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) training exercise. Spectators observed the helicopters landing operators on building rooftops, then later setting down to pick them up at street level. Presumably, the training scenario involved the operators assaulting from […]

In a recent interview with Face the Nation, President Trump was asked, “What would make you use the U.S. military in Venezuela? What’s the national security interest?” This question came not long after National Security Advisor John Bolton was photographed holding a yellow legal pad on which “5000 troops to Colombia” was written. President Trump […]

Reuters published a bombshell story on Wednesday, January 30, based on interviews with participants and leaked documents, revealing how former National Security Agency contractors set up an offensive cyber-espionage unit in a converted mansion in the United Arab Emirates. The targets of this computer hacking unit included journalists, human rights activists, and a number of American […]

NEWSREP reported last year on a sexual blackmail network in 7th Special Forces Group which entangled a number of senior officers and non-commissioned officers, all the way up to the then-Command Sergeant Major (CSM) of 1st Special Forces Command. “Dick Pic Six: The 7th Special Forces Group sex and blackmail network” detailed how 7th Group […]