Over the weekend, other NATO members’ pressure on Berlin continued to mount while bipartisan American lawmakers have issued demands that Washington lead by example and send its own heavy tanks to Ukraine.
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US Shipping Arms from Israel to Ukraine – NYT
The US military is supplying Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of artillery shells pulled from a “vast but little-known” stockpile based in Israel, the New York Times reported, citing multiple US and Israeli officials.
1/12/23 Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, Russiagate and Government Censorship
Download Episode. This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talks with Matt Taibbi about the latest batch of Twitter Files, released seconds before Taibbi jumped on the line. To start, Scott asks Taibbi to respond to the claim he’s become a right-winger. They then dig into...
US Warplane Reports Unsafe Encounter with Chinese Jet
The US Department of Defense released a video showing a Chinese fighter jet flying near an American RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance plane. The Pentagon claims the incident occurred in the skies over the South China Sea.
Russia Receives US Assurances on Patriot Missile Deployment in Ukraine
American soldiers will not operate Patriot missile batteries slated to be shipped to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, citing recent talks through diplomatic backchannels.
South Korea Says it Will ‘Punish’ North for ‘Provocations’
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has vowed more aggressive retaliation to military action by Pyongyang, calling to “punish” the DPRK soon after Seoul unveiled a new $440 million military spending package.
WATCH: Cop Shoots Man Over Ordinance Violation, Gets Exonerated
In February 2020, Ariel Roman, 33, while traveling on Chicago's public transit train, walked from one train car to another. That is all. For this action, two officers, assigned to Chicago's mass transit unit, chased him and tackled him on the train platform before one...
FBI Pushed Twitter to Suppress Hunter Biden Laptop Story, Paid Company Millions
The intelligence community worked to ensure Twitter would quash The New York Post's report on Hunter Biden's laptop. New internal documents released by Twitter show the company received over $3 million from the FBI in the run-up to the 2020 election. Michael...
Section 230 Is a Subsidy for Surveillance
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet is a nice book title. It might even be an interesting read. But it is also false. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He stated that the power of the Web was its universality as a permissionless, decentralized,...
News Roundup 12/6/2022
Russia Explosions hit two Russian air bases deep inside Russian territory early Monday morning, killing three Russian soldiers and damaging two aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry said. AWC The US Army is planning a “dramatic” increase in the production of 155mm...
WSJ: US Secretly Limited Range of Weapons Sent to Ukraine
The Department of Defense secretly altered the most advanced weapons systems the US has transferred to Ukraine. The change prevented the platform from firing long-range munitions, according to the Wall Street Journal.
US Approves Heavy Weapon Sales to NATO Hopeful
The US government has authorized a flurry of arms sales to European allies in recent weeks, including more than $850 million in advanced missiles and rockets to Finland, which is currently seeking to join the NATO military alliance.
11/11/22 Branko Marcetic on the DHS’s Role in Online Censorship
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Branko Marcetic of Jacobin to discuss the recent revelations that the Department of Homeland Security has been guiding tech platforms on what they should censor. They observe some specific cases where platforms like Facebook and...
Down With Content Moderation!
Back when I was involved with Parler, I wrote an article about FaceBook and it’s then-newly anointed Oversight Board. A more apt name might have been Tourqemada, condemning people to a digital inquisition. Free speech frauds did not condemn the concept of this board,...
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