of the pentagon, and the u. s. government in general, has also denied that his general represents the official position of the united states, these army china. now secondly, i hope washington will realize that war is not and should not be an option between china and the united states. 2 countries armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, because a war between china, the united states will soon get out of control and lead directly to armageddon. and eventually, to will not only be a disaster for the united states and for china, but for mankind as a whole. therefore, generals and admirals, both in china and the united states, need to be exercising maximum restraint and need to really listen to their political leaders. rather than using their own judgment about the war or peace, they need to stand firm for peace rather than agitate for war. war is not an option between washington and b. g. period. how significantly? well, beijing be taking this link memo or will they take at face value, what washington had to say afte

u. s. has previously seized the iranian tankers, sailing to venezuela and even accused her on of meddling in u. s. elections. former pentagon, security analysts, michael maloof, and turan university professor ford is adi bo say that iran has the right to sailed through the panama canal, stressing the fact that the u. s. itself regularly deployed its forces near other states. either they think that they can go into other peoples waters like us going into the south china sea or, or, or the persian gulf or the black sea with him, with our, our war ships constantly which drives up our, our defense costs tremendously. but no one else can do that to us. once again we're, we're showing that double standard. and, and we're perpetuating that even into the 21st century. but these other countries, they have the means and the capability and the projection the it and the ability to trade like that. so bit, let him do it. iran is not going to attack the united states that i just don't see that they might establish bases in response to the united states having some 35 bases around iran. so if, if the united states doesn't want that to hap

office also said the pentagon has made practically no progress and accurately monitoring its arm supplies to contract as well. this apparently has been well, an ongoing issue for the u. s. defense department. well, for decades. the pentagon's most recent annual financial report failed to hold up to scrutiny for the 5th consecutive year. the defense department managed to account for less than half of it's $3.00 trillion dollars in total declared assets. it says it will properly address the issue within the next 2 years. well, amidst all of this, here we have yet another enormous military, a package for key f. i recently the u. s. approved up to $2500000000.00 for ukrainian troops. that includes well 60 personnel carriers and 90 fighting vehicles as well as an 8th at defense systems and a good $3000000.00 rounds of small arms. ammunition still here has recently been intensifying its calls on western powers to increase their weapons deliveries of pressure to provide advanced weaponry to key. if however, has encountered pushback from berlin, the german chancellor has expressed reluctance about supplying tanks to ukrainian forces on concerns that could draw his country dire

u. s. government pro pentagon cia as well as with nato allies. so you see here it's the washington elite taken care of their own one of their own. this journalists, shoghi was the nephew of a powerful arms dealer who service the washington security states, the washington d. c. secured state. so of course they are upset and angry when he's murdered naturally, as opposed to something like a son who is not a member of this inner power, elite, global power power lead in the west well in the western world. so of course the sun is not in quite the contrast signs, of course is attacking the western us power really. therefore, he is an enemy, as opposed to a shockey, who is one of the family, a member of this powerful family that you know that washington the rules in washington d. c. so what's your view on such rhetoric and what if anything, does it say about the priorities of american officials when they take care of their own? that's the bottom line. they take care of their own the. so whether you're saudi or british or german, if you are, if you facil

inquiry examined the pentagon supplies of lethal weapons including missiles and told peters to various contractors. now, 9 years ago the defense department said that $220000000000.00 of u. s. military equipment was provided to contract is that the audit said that number was probably a gross understatement, and it was unable to assess the current amount. the government accountability office also said the pentagon has made practically no progress and accurately monitoring his arms supplies to all these different contract as well. this apparently has been rather an ongoing issue for us defense department. as we understand for decades, the pentagon's most recent annual financial report failed hold up to scrutiny for the 5th consecutive year. the defense to pop and manage to account for less than half of its $3.00 trillion dollars in total declared assets. it says it will properly address the issue within the next 2 years. well, i mean, all of this meantime, of course, we have another enormous military aid package for key f. recently, america approved up to $2500000000.00 for ukrainian troops. that includes about a 60 armored personnel carriers and 90 fighting vehicles, as wel

the name of daniel ellsberg, lead to the press, a 7000 page top secret pentagon study and covering years of official lies about u. s. military involvement in the vietnam war. the leak documents known as the pentagon papers were instrumental in exposing the scope and strategy behind the u. s. as war in the region, in many at the time believed they could change how the world viewed war decades later as conflicts rage on and ukraine, yemen in ethiopia, just to name a few. the decision making process behind wars remains as murky. is that what we do know is that billions of dollars is spent on weapons and defense contracts every year, making conflict incredibly profitable result. the who benefits from war. and who are the biggest players behind the war machine. and up front special with daniel ellsberg. daniel ellsberg, thank you so much for joining me on up front. thank you for having a large part of your life's work. has been committed to not only raising awareness about the dangers of nuclear weapons, but also the money behind them. in 20. 20 is pandemic, raged the 9 nuclear weapons states, collectively spit an estim

u. s. tanks will be useful because my understanding is the pentagon sang the abrams tank, the u. s. tank really isn't the right thing to use in the train in ukraine right now. well, i don't think it's just about political cover. i, it's about national security cover. i'm in germany is one of the most significant economies in europe, one of the largest states in europe. they don't have nuclear weapons. they don't have the deterrence. ah, that, that other nations, like the united states have they rely on us. and a lot of countries in europe are concerned about this question, where we'll put and go next if he's not stopped here. that's a reasonable concern. i think for the chancellor to have congressman seth molten. thank you very much for joining us. live here on out to 0. divorce has another day, but it's the wine down day. certainly with regard to the conversations on ukraine, they're very much moving to germany. the u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin is in berlin, but he'll be moving with the new german defense minister and the rest of the nato defense ministers. that important

u . s. base in oklahoma. we understand we will hopefully get more details from the pentagon. had to stay from the u. s. canada and mexico held a wide ranging talks at the north american leaders summit, u. s. president joe biden. canada's justin trudeau on the mexican president under emanuel lopez open a door have been meeting in mexico city. they have discuss regional cooperation on matters, including trade, immigration, and drug trafficking. as gates of manual report has been following the summit and joins is for mexico city. look, just looking at live pictures there. of the 3 lead is giving a press conference in the last hour or so. has anything concrete come out of this summit manual? get a 1000000, i'm looking over here, peaking over at the monitor, noticing that this press conference is still going on. the north american leader summit did conclude this press conference going a little bit longer than we were expecting it to. i would argue that so far, what we've heard from the 3 world leaders of from canadian prime minister justin trudeau, president biden, and president lopez over the board of me

pentagon. after massive u. s. department of defense contracts to both the saudis and the m moratti's for america's part. it supplies the kingdom with about 80 percent of its arms, ranging from air power in the way of fighter jets to the more common tactical arms like shells and bullets. saudi arabia is america's number one military arms customer or as the u. s. calls it f m s foreign military sales customer in just 2022 alone. the u. s. d o. d approved and secured a 3000000000 dollar sale of patriot missiles to saudi arabia and about 2300000000 for a bad missile defense system for the u, a. e. now over the years and through multiple presidents, the deals made between the u. s. and the saudis account for many, many billions of dollars every year. joining me to discuss the humanitarian crisis caused by nearly a decade of us bombs is doctor i showed you mon, she's the president and founder of the human relief and reconstruction foundation are known as y r r f. i. shad. thank you for being with us today. yemen has pl

u. s. president has made this decision after a lot of deliberation and hasn't taishan given the fact that this is an overriding of advice by his generals at the pentagon, who cautioned the u. s. president against sending the abrams tanks as to simply because this is an older technology, have to remember that this was machinery designed back in the 1970s. it is operated on jack fuel. and so the logistics involved in getting these to the battlefield and maintaining them is quite extensive. so as a result, there were concerns about sending these, but in the end the u. s. president believes that this is the right decision and as a result he will be sending also the logistics support in order to ensure that this is successful. he believes this will be a successful. so strategic decision and we'll be definitive in helping the ukrainians in their fight against the russian invasion of ukraine. now to that end, we should also point out that the national security spokesperson, john kirby has been briefing reporters in the white house briefing room in the last few moments saying that, well, this is something that the ukrainians have been anticipating and asking

it's very likely that the high command in the pentagon and u. s. officials aren't so sure they want to risk sending that super expensive high tech machinery to ukraine just for it to get blown up by a russian missiles essentially. and that's why we have heard from washington that they're, they're not ready to send these m one abrams tanks. yet we just don't think we're there yet. the abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment. it's expensive. it's hard to train on. it has a jet engine, i think, is about 3 gallons to the mile with jim fuel. it's not the easiest system to maintain naturally, this stance that washington has taken has actually upset quite a few germans who basically think that the u. s. is trying to sacrifice other people at the altar of its own foreign policy agenda, one german m p basically voice that opinion and also suggested that this is really risky. bringing us closer to a nuclear confrontation, western tanks could ultimately provoke the use of nuclear weapons, primarily against germany. that seems to be the deeper re

the pentagon said that u. s. troops were not there to protect syrian oil fields, except for rare occasions when is needed to protect civilians. well steve, so who you are joining us here on our team, international up critical commentator and chief editor of a mid east discourse news outlet. thank you very much for joining us here on our team to national great to see you. thank you very much. you've heard the story, but aging is also previously tried to limelight this issue. but what can you make of china? is another attempt to draw attention to this matter. a china, what has to happen is china and russia and their allies in the world has to put an end for the valuation of international law by washington, dc. and the valuation of the humanitarian or him human rights laws also, or by the a washington d. c. by the united states, invading a, the east of syria and stealing the soil. they are forbidding the sooty people from having they did. the fuel for a warming to house is in the winter for turning on the factories

u. s. e. 's, china, as their biggest, is what they called the pentagon. pacey and threats. iceland came responsibility for a suicide explosion that killed at least 21 people in the african capital tolerable, a dozen more were injured in the blast, which happened near the foreign ministry. a chinese delegation was reportedly in the building meeting with the taliban. when the blast happened. the indian, himalayan town of josie mouth is being evacuated as its buildings crumbled. the problem is being blamed on a non stop construction in the area and the changing environment. about 600 houses and hotels are sinking down as close to a number of important religious size in the himalayas. attracting thousands of pilgrims every year. partly methyl is in just the mouth for us and joins us now above me. it does look horrendous for the people whose lives have just been turned upside down there. people in this town arguing anxious more than 700 homes. ah, i have developed crags and have been damaged, were actually in one of those homes. and as you can see behind me, the ground has developed deep cracks inside the

u. s. government in the middle east during the u. s . global war on terrorism officials from cia and the pentagon conveniently slid over to black water for a much more lucrative pay day than their government job. and despite a cowboy reputation and incidents like when blackwater personnel opened fire and killed 14 civilians in iraq's, this war square in 2007, the u. s. private security model has gone on to thrive, lucrative job offers with western and private military contractors, reportedly started thing up right from the very outset of the conflict in ukraine. once it, multilingual former soldiers willing to cowardly had into ukraine for the handsome sum of up to $2000.00 per day, plus bonus to help rescue families from an increasingly grim conflict. okay, so apparently that isn't a problem for washington. they have nothing to say about job offers like that. instead, american officials are preoccupied with the wagner groups presence in places like serbia, where the group announced last month to have opened a cultural center to better inform and educate russian ex pats working against moscow from serbia. sounds kind of like serbia w

the pentagon said that u. s. troops were not there to protect syrian oil fields, except for rare occasions when is needed to protect civilian. i was discussing other subject a bit earlier with political commentator steven so honey, he says washington's actions ultimately stripped syria of the very resources and funding that the country needs to recover. they are so busy in the studio, people from having the fuel number for warming to houses in the winter for turning on the factory used for the building of syria. and that is particularly what a washington d. c wants to a country like steel. yeah. is that huge amount of money that is, that, that could have rebuilt year to $2.00 or 3 times the doctor. we could have got a medication medicine. we could have got to stop our hospitals and studio. it's good to have got fuel for the cars. our schools and everything. we have a shortage is getting one out of electricity every 24 hours, the ceiling people, i'm talking about the student average people. they cannot, they don'

the pentagon said that u. s. troops were not there to protect syrian oil fields except for rare occasions when it's needed to protect civilians. but i spoke just a bit earlier in this program to political commentator, stevens. so honey, he says washington's actions basically strip syria of the resources that it so desperately needs to recover. they are forbidding the city people from having added the fuel number for a warming to houses in the winter for tourney on the fact is for the rebuilding of syria. and that is particularly what a washington d. c wants to a country like steel. yeah, that is a huge amount of money that is or that could have rebuilt c o $22.00 or 3 times a doctor. we could have got a medication medicine. we could have got day 6 up our hospitals in syria. it could have got fuel for the cars, our schools and everything. we have a shortage exceeded as getting one out of electricity of the 24 hours, the ceiling people. i'm talking about the cd and average people. they cannot and they don't have f

u. s. the saudis, or america's number one, d o. d customer, you know this. they buy a billions of dollars worth of arm, huge contracts, and go to the pentagon and affiliated companies. how would you describe the u. s. relationship with saudi arabia right now, while there is a lot of economic ties between sort of a, b and the united states. and the primary market for a via is china in terms of the exporting and importing goods. and which makes the relationship sort of a bit odd. yes, the idea is number one, source of arms and weaponry has been the united states. and the united states sold more weapons to saudi arabia than any other country. and that is, that explains a lot. so, and because the united states, the relationship has been as, as stated, even by many american president and officials, the united states is committed to the security and the survival of the saudi monarchy over the past few decades. and most of that source is not the oil as, as, as claimed because the oil, as the oil in the united states is very minimal. but in terms of being a customer for american on was so there it is, number one and the saudi government. and the monica has spent a lot of m

the pentagon is planning on sending ukrainian troops to oklahoma to train on u. s. missile systems. the last thing we need is the misfiring a missile into oklahoma, killing our citizens like they did to the innocent polish lives that were lost. now senator nathan dom has filed a resolution that would block federal officials from sending foreign troops to oklahoma, encouraging local authorities to do everything in their power to keep them of state land. the politician also had out at washington's continued funding of kiev stressing oklahoma should not continue to allow unaccountable spending corruption and potential money laundering. the resolution echoes similar sentiments already expressed by some republicans. multiple members of the u. s. congress have called for an audit of u. s. government funds allocated for a to prove in november last year, and newly elected speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy reportedly pledged to limit the future economic and military a to ukraine in order to secure a majority of votes. added 15th i'll never international attorney klein press then says havi

pentagon with the military. and recently we've had statements from the u. s. space wars basically confirming their deep connections with the private sector and with corporations in the united states. from my perspective, what's so exciting to the space force and space acquisition community, about all of this commercial innovation and these commercial technologies are that we can use those to maintain our technology lead and over and deter conflict with our, with our competitor and the i will tell you i have never in my 25 years seen the department move so much money so fast. i. busy towards priority things that have been identified through this construct that the secretary laid out. for example, when it comes to members of congress, lawmakers who craft national policy in it. a lot of them have defense stocks. they are heavily invested in corporations that financially benefit from military operations and the pentagon and its operations around the world. and this is not even a new thing. and i, let's recall that in 1961, dwight eisenhower, who was the u. s. pre

u. s. department defense plate, some brigadier writer addressing a pentagon briefing, let's say go straight away to pedestal height, who can fill us in with more of what was said? well, like i can confirm for you from a government official that tomorrow at the white house, the u. s. is expected to announce that is reached a deal to support to supply m one abrams tags to ukraine. now this comes after weeks of pentagon officials from the secretary of defense, the chairman, joint chiefs of staff saying that they don't need them. they don't need these tanks right now, and they said there were a lot of difficulties with that, that some of the things i said is they're not trained on it. the abrams is a fairly complex machine, a piece of machinery. bigger issue though is just the maintenance that goes into these abrams tanks. they, it is extensive and you need a huge team of people to be able to keep these tanks. running. other said, look, we use our abrams tanks and we use jet fuel to for, to fuel them. now that somewhat misleading because the a. m, on abrams is built in such a way that it can us

states, both nations have explicitly denied their involvement. heavily pentagon spokesperson brigadier general, patrick riders said, no u. s. military forces were involved in strikes in iran. but declined to commend further. so eager as he was saying that the facility was only slightly damaged to look pretty minor, frankly, is ready media as cold a whole story, essentially a lie. and when you talk about potential culprits behind this. so this drone attack in iran, ok, as you say, it could be some sort of clandestine israeli thing. could be the codes as well. it could be any kind of us sympathizing group in that part of the world, frankly, in the fact that iran hasn't singled anyone out and yet is only right now, reportedly summoning the ukrainian ambassador in the country. that me there an angle, say we just are not getting a clear picture on, but what do you think is actually happening? well, it is difficult to make a judgment on that without being on the ground and watch and seeing it with your own eyes. but definitely it looks like the information attack against ron. it has been more of a, it has had a larger scale than

u. s. e. 's, china, as their biggest, is what they call the pentagon. pacey and threats isolate claim responsibility for suicide. explosion that killed at least 24 people in the african capital cobble a dozen more injured in the blast, which happened near the foreign ministry office. now, the chinese delegation was reportedly in the building meeting with the taliban when the blast happened. a new 2023 human rights. what support says unchecked, authoritarian power is leaving behind a sea of human suffering. its spotlights abuses happening in 100 countries covering everything from war, media, freedoms, gender rights, and refugees. amongst others, it puts the war in ukraine at the top of its agenda, saying russian president vladimir putin is operating with impunity. it welcomes its national communities response, including the u. n. agencies collecting evidence of war crimes. but it says other crises are being ignored and is calling on governments and international organizations to take action or correspondence have this update from some of the countries mentioned in the report. ringback ready ready ah.

u. s. c's, china, as their biggest, is what they call in the pentagon, pacing threats. let's get more in this. we can speak to 9 o'clock. he's a senior advisor for the national bureau of asian research and a for my us deputy assistant secretary of defense or east asia. he joins us now from washington, dc. thank you for your time sir. let the us has been urging japan for years to step up its defenses because of china, but it's only now that we're seeing such a major shift in japan's position on the need to bowl state security wise that well, thank you for the opportunity. i would say that there's been an evolution in japanese strategic thought over the last 3 to 5 years. and the announcements that we will hear over the course of the next 3 days is a combination of that. the japanese last month published their national security strategy, as well as the national trends program guidelines, and midterm defense programs. all of which highlight an increase in investments and defense that are predicated, quite frankly, and addressing the very dangerous challenges that the peopl

u. s. e. 's, china as their biggest, is what they called the pentagon, pacey and threats. while high know click is a senior advisor, the national asian national bureau of asian. with that, she says the threat posed to japan from china, north korean, russia, and force the historic plans to double its military spending. the japanese last month published their national security strategy, as well as the national offense program guidelines and midterm defense programs. all of which highlight an increase in investments and defense that are predicated, quite frankly, and addressing the very dangerous challenges that the people's republic of china, the north koreans, as well as the russian pose for japanese security. fundamentally, what's historically unprecedented here is the fact that the japanese are publicly acknowledging the challenges that they're facing. i would actually use the word threat the rather that they are facing and that they are taking again, unprecedented steps in terms of doubling. in essence, their defense budget. which is again historic and unprecedented. now