Iran claimed to have captured a US drone and that three vessels hit mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The US denied that its drone was captured. On Thursday, Iranian state television reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used an “electronic warfare...
Reuters reports that Iran has developed an elaborate network of more than 5,000 military agencies to import equipment despite US sanctions and a naval blockade. “Iran has created a secret network of military agencies with global reach to import at least $2 billion in...
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Download Audio. Scott interviews Bill Buppert about Iran, the defense industry, the geopolitical delusions of the West, how evolving weapons technology will shape the next few decades and more. Discussed on the show: The OKCBOMB Files The Anti-Federalist Papers and...
In a statement posted on Twitter/X, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) said: REMINDER: The single biggest driver of our national debt for the last 25 YEARS have been Republican-led tax cuts. — Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) August 21, 2026 Senator Murray’s claim that...
Washington is preparing for a new round of talks in the Indo-Pacific. The South China Morning Post reported on October 22 that Philippine ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez anticipated possible meetings of the informal “Squad” security grouping ahead of regional summits...
"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money." (attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen, R-Ill) As most folks know, I am incredibly cynical about the US armed forces as an effective fighting platform but the submarine force is one of the few...
It usually began with the engineers walking the length of a street, threading charges through house after house along a whole block. Then the countdown, and then the block went down together, a single rolling wall of dust where a neighborhood had stood, and over the...
The most recent tech dystopia discourse has been driven by a meeting between AI bigwigs and Pope Leo XIV, wherein one of them tried to convince the Pope that artificial intelligence can develop consciousness. Why, if possible, this would be desirable, is outside of...
This month, a Trump administration report confirmed Joe Biden's White House secretly connived to destroy Americans’ financial freedom. Those bureaucrats were upholding hallowed precedents stretching back to the Nixon era, when Congress passed the Bank Secrecy Act....
