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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Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On
The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...
Blaming Freedom
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
Insurrection of the Mind.
Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...
They Know the Truth
Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...
Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov
I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...
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