Wall St. Journal. (Funny: the story is by Michael R. Gordon, who co-bylined every one of Judith Miller's worst claims in the New York Times, lying the American people into war, in 2002 and 2003.) Maj. Danny Sjursen comments.
The Jerusalem Post, a major Israeli newspaper, published an article on Wednesday quoting Israeli military officials as saying that they had been providing seven different Syrian rebel groups with “large amounts of cash, weapons and ammunition.” Though the report did...
Danny Sjursen is interviewed on his service in the Terror Wars, how he became antiwar, and how he wants his service and the service of others to be honored. Sjursen is a major in the U.S. army and former history instructor at West Point. He writes regularly for...
What motivated the legions of bureaucrats in the US Gov during the Cold War? As a child of the 90s, and former Boy Scout, I can tell you that the answer is incredibly clear in the minds of that generation: defeating evangelical atheism. I wouldn't discount the...
Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses the Syrian conflict and what the current status of the fighting is between the Syrian Army and allied Russians, the rebels, and ISIS. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Zen Cash; The War...
On FPF #208, Marko Marjanovic joins the show to discuss the failures of Stalin's centrally planned military leading up to WWII. The failures amount to the USSR having the most losses on one side of a war. While the Red Army had the equipment and technology to defend...
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. A former general of the Army National Guard who rose to the role of advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, is under criminal investigation over his close ties to a defense...
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Djibouti — China is the rising world power. This much is clear, but nowhere is that reality felt more than behind closed doors in Washington, D.C. The global hegemony of the United States is being challenged, and...
I loathe the British Royal family. I loathe the Markle couple and Harry the Handbag even more. Piers Morgan, love him or hate him, has done a standup and stunning expose on Meghan Markle’s financial skullduggery. AMEX is going to blow this terrible fraud complex to...
A single clip can reveal the whole playbook. When a powerful senator calls military aid to Israel his “baby,” it says everything about priorities, leverage, and who pays the price. We pull the thread from that moment into the reality on the ground in Gaza, where a...
War planners love simple stories. Threaten, strike, and watch a “decisive” blow topple a hated regime. Today we peel back the layers on the rush toward Iran—what a decisive strike actually means, what the timelines look like from the Pentagon and Tel Aviv, and why air...
"Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged to capitalism. The atheists make capitalism responsible for the survival of Christianity. But the papal...
One trillion dollars, the rest of the planet spends approx 2.4-2.7 trillion dollars, the Pentagon is not delivering much bang for the buck. They even funded accounting errors to reward the poor performance of Pentagon program managers. When combined with off DOD...
