US News The House Intelligence Committee says the FBI should be required under the law to obtain a “probable cause warrant” before searching the foreign intelligence surveillance program database for information related to domestic crimes. Wire The Senate on Thursday...
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Deputy Speaker of Israeli Knesset ‘We Are Too Humane. Burn Gaza Now No Less!’
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 19, 2023 | News
An Israeli official called for the complete destruction of Gaza. In six weeks of bombing Gaza, Israeli forces have killed over 5,500 Palestinian Children. Still, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Nissim Vaturi said, “We are too humane. Burn Gaza now no less!” Vaturi, a...
News Roundup 11/17/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 17, 2023 | News Roundup
US News In August 2022, the Justice Department announced that the FBI had foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton in retaliation for the U.S. killing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Qods Force commander Qasem Soleimani. The...
The Problem with Joe Manchin’s Centrism
by Connor O'Keeffe | Nov 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
Last week, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced he would not seek reelection in 2024. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Manchin explained his reasons for leaving. He starts with a relatively noncontroversial assessment of the problems facing America—rising costs,...
US Intercepts Drone Fired From Yemen Near Navy Ship
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 15, 2023 | News
The Pentagon reported successfully intercepting a drone that was on a trajectory toward a Navy destroyer. The Department of Defense says the attack originated in Yemen, and the naval ship was operating near the Red Sea. After Tel Aviv began bombing Gaza last month,...
Israel: What We Are Doing in Gaza, We Can Do in Beirut
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 14, 2023 | News
The Israeli Defense Minister threatened to launch a war in Lebanon that would resemble the military operations in Gaza. Israeli forces have waged a brutal assault and blockade of the enclave. Tel Aviv’s bombing has killed over 11,000 Palestinian civilians, including...
Visiting the Ghosts of Waco
by Jim Bovard | Nov 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
After decades of writing about the greatest atrocity of 1993, I finally visited Waco last week. I was traveling with a friend who was hepped up on seeing Waco’s most popular tourist site—Magnolia, a massive shopping complex spawned by an HGTV program on home...
News Roundup 11/13/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 13, 2023 | News Roundup
US News A bipartisan group of 16 members of Congress has called on President Biden to drop the case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, warning of the grave threats to press freedom if he is convicted. AWC Ukraine Slovakia’s new government under Prime Minister...
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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...
Corruption-A-Go-Go: Taliban Continues to Receive US Funding
The US State Department needs to be disbanded and all overseas embassies should be converted to ATM-style kiosks. The Taliban has just received 239 million debt-bucks in US State Department aid. 239 millions dollars. The disaster in Afghanistan continues to cascade...
Further China Reading
From a reader: “Hello Joseph. I just ordered your book, and I noticed it was short. I would like to know if there is an up to date book on American foreign policy towards China that you could recommend that is well-researched and truthful with good policy suggestions....
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