Ryan Pickrell The early morning coalition strikes on Syria’s chemical weapons infrastructure Saturday destroyed three critical targets, crippling the Syrian regime’s ability to create chemical weapons. “We sent a very clear message last night,” Pentagon spokesman Dana White explained Saturday, further commenting, “We hope he [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad] heard it.” Around 4 a.m. in…
Ryan Pickrell The U.S., U.K., and France sent Syria a “very strong message” Saturday morning, hitting targets with more than twice the firepower used against the Assad regime in 2017, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Friday evening. More than 100 missiles fired from air and sea rained down on targets associated with Syria’s chemical…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ryan Pickrell North Korea lashed out at President Donald Trump on Tuesday for a previous tweet mocking dictator Kim Jong Un’s “nuclear button.” Kim said in his New Year’s address that he has a button on his desk to order a nuclear strike against the U.S. In response, Trump tweeted,…
Written by: Squiggly Line Guy Follow on Facebook or Twitter Americans care about Africa again. The last time we did was because of Kony 2012. The time before that was after Mufasa died in Disney’s The Lion King. President Donald Trump calling Haiti and African countries shitholes, if true, is beneath the office he holds….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jacob Bojesson The Catalonian independence movement looks set to secure a big victory in a key election for the region’s push to secede from Spain. The Spanish government called a snap parliamentary election in the region after Catalonian leaders held a banned independence referendum. Left-wing parties ERC and CUP are on track to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ryan Pickrell The U.S. military issued an apology Wednesday after part of a military helicopter fell on an elementary school in Japan, injuring a little boy. The metal-framed window of the largest and heaviest helicopter in the U.S. military, a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion transport aircraft, fell on a playground…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ryan Pickrell North Korea claims it tested a previously unseen intercontinental ballistic missile Wednesday. North Korea tested the Hwasong-15 ICBM before dawn, North Korean state media revealed in a special noon announcement. The new missile is believed to have a range of more than 8,100 miles, far greater than that of the Hwasong-14 ICBM the North…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Saagar Enjeti Nearly 200 Sufi Muslims were slaughtered during Mosque services Friday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula by suspected Islamic militants. Sufi Muslims have not been targeted by Islamic militants in Egypt in the past but are regarded by fundamentalist groups like the Islamic State to be heretical. The religious group has faced…
Trump has recently concluded his Asian diplomatic marathon–five countries in a week and a half. It was the longest tour of Asia by a sitting President since the end of the Cold War. Of the trip, CNN said Trump found “success overseas“, while the Washington Post claims it “wasn’t the success” Trump thought it was….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ryan Pickrell Surveillance cameras produced by a Chinese company partially owned by the Chinese government are hanging all over America, a new report reveals. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, in which the Chinese government has a 42 percent share, produces surveillance equipment for China’s vast domestic surveillance network, used to keep…