Netanyahu had been working to sabotage the talks in the weeks leading up to his trip to Washington The Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital of Tehran is expected to derail negotiations for a hostage and Gaza...
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Help Publish Scott’s New Book, ‘Provoked’
by Dave Smith | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
What's up, everybody? Recently, in preparation for an online debate, I asked Scott Horton for an early copy of his new book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. As I said on my podcast, the thing is just...
Israel’s Imperial Techno-Optimism
by John Weeks | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Saturday, a rocket struck a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least twelve people were killed, mostly teenagers and children. Israel blamed the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah for the attack. Hezbollah denied the charge and claimed...
News Roundup 7/31/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 31, 2024 | News Roundup
China US Announces $500 Million in New Military Aid for Philippines Amid China Tensions AWC Israel State Department Won’t Call Israeli Rape of Palestinian Prisoners a War Crime AWC Israeli Strike Hits Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza AWC Palestinians Return to Rubble in...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
by Bill Buppert | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
Two Decades Later, the Applause Continues…
by James Wile | Jul 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel spoke before a joint session of the United States Congress on July 24 to address the terror attacks of October 7 and ask for continued support for his war on Gaza. Before Netanyahu even arrived in Washington DC, my thoughts...
COI #646: Shared Values Between the US and Israel
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 30, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #646, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the rampant abuse Palestinians face in Israeli prisons. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...
Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones…
by Kym Robinson | Jul 30, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Fire, Fire, Fire...” Christopher Hitchens says to his audience, a reference to Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes claim that by shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre one is misusing free speech. As Hitchens in his 2006 talk went on to explain, Holmes used this in his...
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Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
The Case for Not Voting
Bretigne Shaffer and I explain why, if you want to effect real change, the most sensible thing you can do is to not vote.
The Royal Navy Submarine Force Remains Surfaced
The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
Anti-War Blog – Not Enough Paper Cranes
When I was in primary school we were taught about a little Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes. She was one of the many victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast, dying after the initial detonation from radiation sickness. One of many thousands who...
Speaking of democracy…
Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the upcoming Democratic party convention, to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024. There have been brokered conventions in...
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