Sharmine Narwani, writer and journalist, is interviewed on her article for The American Conservative Magazine, "Are al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside U.S. Rebels in Syria’s South?". The history of the United State's support for rebels in Syria is explored, as...
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FPF #197 – Libyan Style
by Kyle Anzalone | May 23, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #197, I discuss John Bolton's plan for North Korea to undergo Libyan style denuclearization. In December 2003 Libya quickly gave up a nuclear weapons program. In 2011, NATO, led by the US, went to war with Libya. The war was based on myths pushed by Hillary...
FPF #178 – Trump Takes the Bait
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 9, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #178, I discuss recent allegations that Assad used chemical weapons. The al-Qaeda linked White Helmets claims that over 40 people were killed in the attack. In response, Trump took to Twitter to call Assad an animal and blame the situation in Syria on Obama. I...
FPF #174 – The Syrian War Goes On
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 30, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #174, I update the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Civil War recently passed its 7th year but remains exceptionally complex. Assad has liberated Damascus from most al-Qaeda linked factions. Turkey has conquered the Afrin District from the Syrian Kurds and now...
3/28/18 Gareth Porter on the history of Iraq War 2
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter returns to the show to do a deep dive on the history of the Iraq War. Porter begins by detailing the role of the air force in propagating the neoconservatives' goals and the behind-the-scenes struggle for power that...
3/23/18 Patrick Cockburn on the fighting in Afrin and Eastern Ghouta
by Scott Horton | Mar 23, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East reporter for the Independent, returns to the show to discuss the fighting in Syria, focusing on the conflicts in Afrin and East Ghouta where much of the killing of civilians has taken place. Cockburn details the tangled maze of allegiance...
Corrected: Gina Haspel Did Not Torture Zubaydah, Apparently
by Scott Horton | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog
Not only did the new CIA Director personally oversee the torture of Abu Zubaydah, she did so in order to lie you and your mom into supporting the aggressive war against Iraq. From David Rose’s report "Tortured Reasoning": Some of what he did say was leaked by the...
2/16/18 Reese Erlich on the latest pandemonium in Syria
by Scott Horton | Feb 16, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Foreign correspondent Reese Erlich returns to the show to discuss his latest article "The U.S. is Permanently Occupying Northern Syria, and That's Trouble." Erlich dials back to the good old days—2014—when the United States assured Americans it would not be involved...
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The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks
The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks John Weeks (@weeksjf) examines the evolution of free speech, the nature of state power, and the rise of what he calls the "global censorship complex." Drawing from anthropology, political...
163rd Anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s Victory in the Battle of Front Royal
This is reprinted from Jim Bovard's blog and expands on a post originally from 2023. Today is the 163th anniversary of the battle of Front Royal, Virginia (the town near where I was raised). On May 23, 1862, almost all the Yankee soldiers in Front Royal were captured,...
Future Fish Apartments R Us
Aircraft carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Very expensive 20th century modalities not fit for purpose in 21st century peer naval combat. Carriers like the USS Ford can barely function but the sentence above applies to even best of class in...
End of the Road w/Gord
Gord is back discussing how trucking is the canary in the coal mine you need to be paying attention to. ALP
The DoD Rights a Wrong
Hell freezes over occasionally. On May 7, 2025, the Department of Defense published a memo in which it admitted in writing that the implementation of its covid shot mandate was unlawful. This echoes similar remarks made by Secretary Pete Hegseth in a video released on...
Dave DeCamp : Trump Speaks Directly w/ Putin. Is Peace Possible in Ukraine? – New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show
Dave DeCamp returns to the show to discuss Trump's foreign policy from Yemen to Ukraine. 1. Will Trump Help with the Genocide 2. Crossing Iran’s Redlines 3. Trump Talks to Putin and Zelensky 4. Pentagon Hides Casualties
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