The number of sexual assaults has risen among US military forces, the Pentagon has reported.
The Pentagon’s latest annual report released this week showed that sexual assaults in the US military had increased by 1 percent last year, CNN reported.
US service members in 2022 reported 7,378 instances of sexual assault, according to the Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, released on Thursday.
In 2021, there were 7,260 reports of sexual assault in the US military.
The increase was reported in all of the services aside from the Army.
The Navy reported a 9 percent increase and the Marine Corps showed a 3.6 percent rise while the Air Force’s rise was 13 percent.
Military officials say despite Pentagon's efforts and recommendations aimed to stop sexual assault, the number has risen every year since 2010.
Beth Foster, director of the Office of Force Resiliency, told reporters that the ongoing trend of sexual assault isn’t going to change “overnight.”
The military official blamed commanders and service members on the ground for the increase......more below
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China has suspended several 2025 export controls on strategic materials — including rare earths, superhard materials, and lithium batteries – for a year. Is this a concession to the US, or a move in a far more complex game?
"The first aim of China’s export controls was to consolidate its leverage in negotiations. The second was to establish a long-term framework for managing such controls," says Yana Leksyutina, deputy director at the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Сhina could activate this mechanism at any moment, and now everyone knows it’s a lever it holds, she explains to Sputnik.
Balancing the Mineral Market
"The moratorium on export bans to the US essentially resets the rare earth market to where it was previously," Jeff J. Brown, author of 'The China Trilogy' and founder of Seek Truth From Facts Foundation, tells Sputnik.
In the meantime, there will be a global rush by the US and its NATO allies to acquire as many rare earth ...
The Israeli regime has reportedly signed contracts worth millions of dollars in recent months to sway American public opinion as part of attempts to launder the occupying entity’s genocidal war crimes against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Friday that the multimillion-dollar campaign aimed to reshape US public opinion, both online and offline, through coordinated influence operations combining digital marketing, AI, geotagging, and religious messaging.
The contracts, signed between the Israeli regime and firms linked to US President Donald Trump, reveal a “hasbara [propaganda] campaign” and schemes to target millions of US churchgoers, deploy bots, hire influencers, and try to make ChatGPT more pro-Israel.
The largest contract, worth $6 million, was signed with Clock Tower X, owned by Trump’s former digital campaign chief Brad Parscale, to produce and distribute roughly 100 core pieces of pro-Israel content per month and thousands......
