On FPF #407, I discuss the impact of US weapons is having around the world. In FY2019 the US sold over $54 billion in weapons. Some of those weapons aided the slaughter of Yemen. In a recent article, Stu Smallwood highlights how US F-35 sales to South Korea are...
Neocon tears last week over the plight of the Kurds has turned to furious anger with news that yesterday a deal was inked between the Kurds and the Syrian government. Syrian Arab Army forces are rushing into formerly Kurd-held areas to stave off a Turk incursion into...
Foreign Policy Focus and Around the Empire's latest swapcast covers the borg's meltdown because some US troops are leaving Syria. Joanne and Kyle recap what has happened in the past two weeks in Syria. The US announced pulling some troops from the Turkey/Syria border....
Syrian ground troops moving north to confront invading Turkish forces is related to a deal that was reached by the Kurdish SDF and the Assad government, in talks brokered by Russia and held on a Russian air base. The deal sees the Kurds unilaterally handing over two...
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about President Trump's withdrawal of U.S. troops from northeastern Syria, which Sjursen views as the first instance of him actually following through on a major promise made on Twitter. Sjursen says that to surprise the generals and war...
Following the infamous Enron and Arthur Anderson scandal of the early 2000's our wise overlords enacted legislation to prevent history from repeating itself. The overreaction of Congress, to a couple of bad actors committing things that were already illegal, is a...
Ali Demirdas talks about the Syrian YPG, a Kurdish organization associated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which America has supported against Assad in Syria. Demirdas thinks this partnership is ill-advised, and that the YPG's chances of ruling significant parts of...
US News Trump places travel sanctions on several members of the Castro family for supporting Maduro. [Link] Russia summoned the US ambassador because the US did not grant visas to ten members of the Russian UN delegation. The UN General Assembly meeting is held in New...
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