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7/5/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the UAE’s Withdrawal From Yemen

by Scott Horton | Jul 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Nasser Arrabyee discusses the news that UAE troops will soon be pulling out of Yemen. Arrabyee speculates that the Emirati government might realize the international stance on the war is finally turning against the Saudi coalition, and they want to get out in time to...

US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa ‘Most Destroyed City in Modern Times’: Study

by Steven Woskow | Apr 28, 2019 | Blog

Julia Conley at Common Dreams reviews the results from a study conducted by Amnesty International and Airwars. The report—"Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the 'Most Precise Air Campaign in History' Left Raqqa the Most Destroyed City in Modern Times"—is detailed on...

11/11/18 Andrea Carboni on an Accurate Estimate of the Death Toll in Yemen

by Scott Horton | Nov 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Andrea Carboni from ACLED Data comes on the show to talk about their casualty estimates for the war in Yemen. "10,000" is the number that has been used for the last few years, but that's exactly why it can't possibly be right. ACLED estimates that there have actually...

US Commander: US Airstrike ‘Probably’ Behind Mosul Civilian Death Toll

by Jason Ditz | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Says Bombs Should Not Have Collapsed the Buildings On March 17, US airstrikes against the city of Mosul leveled multiple buildings, killing in excess of 200 people, by most estimates. The Pentagon had long been very evasive about the incident so far, confirming they’d...

US Airstrikes Kill 22 Afghan Civilians in Helmand Province

by Jason Ditz | Feb 12, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

NATO Investigating 'Credibility' of Claims Village Homes Were Leveled by US Warplanes The deployment of US ground troops into the Helmand Province in recent weeks, aimed at slowing the expansion of the Taliban in the area, has also put the US troops back in direct...

During Obama’s Final Days, Hundreds of Civilian Deaths Passed Unremarked in Iraq and Syria

by Samuel Oakford | Jan 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Civilian casualties escalate in Mosul and Raqqa In the last weeks of the Obama presidency, the U.S.-led air war against so-called Islamic State intensified dramatically — leading to hundreds of likely civilian deaths. Yet in contrast to recent events at Aleppo,...

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Ray Bradbury’s ‘Trumpian’ Armageddon

Yesterday morning, when Donald Trump declared "[a]n entire civilization will die tonight[,]" Ray Bradbury was first to my mind. In sophomore year of high school, our English teacher had us read Fahrenheit 451. So began my adoration of Bradbury's poignant storytelling...

The Royal Navy Follies: Part XXXXVIII

UK warship HMS Dragon has been forced to withdraw in order to be repaired at port after experiencing issues with its fresh water supplies. HMS Dragon had been deployed to the Middle East to help defend RAF Akrotiri during the Iran conflict. The MoD insists HMS Dragon...

Anti-War Blog- Madman Theory

It has been declared that there will be a ceasefire for two weeks, the Iranians will allow for shipping to pass through the Straits of Hormuz. All will be well... It is holding. The somewhat theocratic Sunni republic of Pakistan mediated negations with the Shiite...

Slay Propaganda Like a Lawyer

Announcing my First eBook: Slay Propaganda Like a Lawyer In this eBook I teach you the skills I use every day in both the courtroom and in the information war. The eBook is free for my free email list. You can sign up for it here:...

Rules for Radicals: A Word About Words w/John Weeks

John and I continue to read and comment on Rules for Radicals

The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump’s Iran War Is a Catastrophic Miscalculation! US to Lift Sanction of Iran as Oil Prices Spike

$200 billion is not a rounding error, it’s a signal that Washington is settling in for a long Iran war while pretending it can buy its way out of the consequences. We walk through the Pentagon’s latest funding push, why leaders keep hinting the price tag will rise,...

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Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...