President Donald Trump said that a dozen Latin American nations had enlisted in a US-led coalition to fight cartels in the region. Trump announced the new military organization, along with Latin American leaders, at his Doral resort in Florida on Saturday. The...
Download Audio. Scott interviews author and scholar Robert Pape about the insights he’s gained from his decades of extensive research into the strategic effectiveness of air power in war. Pape argues that, while modern precision bombs are remarkable at carrying out...
Download Audio. Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about an article he just wrote debunking the old lie, that is being pushed once again, that the Iranian government helped kill hundreds of American soldiers by supplying critical parts for armor-piercing roadside IEDs. He...
In his recent comments justifying a preventive war against Iran, President Donald Trump declared, "In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel." Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has invoked that...
Every time the usual suspects start ginning up regime change, be it propaganda, street protesters, arming rebels, or insane bombing campaigns such as the current one in Iran, we always hear about the poor oppressed masses yearning to breathe free. The truth, however,...
War rarely begins with a single decision; it grows from motives, misreads, and momentum. We sit down with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson to map how a promised era of “no new wars” gave way to a high-stakes confrontation with Iran that could redraw the strategic landscape....
An Israeli defense official explained that Tehran had learned lessons during the war in June, and the Iranian military was not close to collapse. "The Iranians learned lessons from Operation Kalavy," a senior Israeli military official told the Israeli outlet Walla on...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran is not seeking to end the war with the US. “We are not asking for a ceasefire. And we don’t see any reason why we should negotiate with the US. When we negotiated with [the US] twice, and every time they...
Most Americans are not buying the White House’s narrative that the war on Iran is making the world a safer place. A poll released by Fox News on Wednesday found that 51% of Americans believe they are “less safe” because of the US and Israeli war against Iran. Only...
https://youtu.be/ybD7vbnNDy4 The current President can teach us a lot about how incentives can alter a persons behavior. Assume you agree with me, that Trump is a nefarious actor. Was Trump more of a threat to humanity in the voluntary sector, or the political...
