Despite US President Donald Trump openly linking the presence of US troops in the Middle East to oil, the American establishment continues to justify military presence in terms of American self-defense against militant threats. According to Politico:

LAHORE: A thick blanket of toxic black smog engulfed the entire metropolitan of Lahore around 9PM Wednesday night, forcing many residents to either literally gasp for breath or complain about sore throats and watery eyes.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported recently that according to sources in China’s ruling Communist Party, Muslim Uyghur women in East Turkestan, whose husbands are detained in China’s ‘communist indoctrination’ detainment camps, are “forced to share beds” with male Chinese officials who have been assigned to monitor them in their homes.

Over the past two years, civilian casualties have dramatically increased as a result of night raids in Afghanistan. By means of such raids, the 01 Unit, Unit 02, Unit 03, Unit 04 and “Khost Protection Force – KPF”, which apparently seem to be operating under the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), but in reality are recruited, trained, equipped and overseen by the CIA, have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced…