US News The US daily output dropped 29% since the first week of March. [Link] The Secretary of the Navy gave a speech to the crew of the USS T Roosevelt slamming the recently fired captain of the ship. The secretary is receiving a lot of backlash and calls to resign....
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Yemen Is Shattered And The U.S. Helped The Saudis Break It
by Doug Bandow | Apr 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Five years ago the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia invaded neighboring Yemen. The conflict was supposed to be quick and simple, over in a few weeks. Now the once-haughty Saudi royals have offered a ceasefire, after their opponents, Houthi irregulars, captured the province of...
The US is Exploiting Covid-19 to Push Regime Change
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 1, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #473, I discuss the US attempts to exploit coronavirus outbreaks to overthrow governments. In Venezuela, the US already has a 'maximum pressure' campaign going. The over a year-long campaign has failed to force the countries president, Maduro, from power, but...
The Chaos in Iraq guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 16, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
Will Porter returns to the show to talk about the chaos in Iraq. Over the weekend, the US bombed several positions claiming to be striking back against the "Iranian-backed" Shia group that killed two Americans and a British soldier. However, the Iraqi government...
Somali MP: US Airstrike Killed Six Somali Civilians on a Minibus
by Jason Ditz | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog
US claimed everyone killed was a 'terrorist' US African Command (AFRICOM) is promising an investigation after an airstrike against a minibus full of people was reported by locals, including a Somali MP, of having killed six civilians. The US had reported on the strike...
UN: 100,000 Civilians Casualties in Afghanistan in 10 Years
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2020 | Blog
Collateral damage.
Special Inspector General: Thousands Killed in Failed Afghan Reconstruction
by Jason Ditz | Feb 12, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Warns Congress was given incomplete picture of the cost While it is well documented how poorly the Afghan War has gone, and how little has actually been built during reconstruction, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) warns Congress...
Afghanistan: Can We Call This Off Now?
by Scott Horton | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog
Military Times: Afghan officials: US airstrike killed 10 civilians in Herat A drone attack carried out by U.S. forces earlier this month in western Afghanistan that apparently targeted a splinter Taliban group also killed at least 10 civilians, including three women...
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Interview: Julian Assange Freed + Palestine’s Ancient History
Mike Leavitt and I discuss the US government’s criminalization of journalism and the pre-Israel history of Palestine.
They Will Want Boys and Men again… Anti-War Blog
The war pigs mount one another in squeals calling for blood as the drums of death beat to their cries. They want your boys and men...again. As war looms and imperial ambitions swell, the non-binary, obese, depressed, expecting mothers (or baby carrying persons) and...
Military Education and the Zampolit Parade Through the Institutions
The professional military education systems and the academies have been captured by the Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) zampolit cadres in a detailed and comprehensive way. In the military a zampolit is a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a...
Regime Apologists Continue to Insist the Carrier is Useful
They misspelled disposable. There is nothing hard to target about a very large ship traveling at very large ship speeds with very large wakes in the modern era by air breathing and non-air breathing detection assets. What this means is that all the carriers deployed...
The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon
The "mission capable rate" of these F35s is simply appalling. 23 years in and it still doesn't work. 23 years. And Congress won't kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper. The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine...
“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck…”
Hot garbage on the wing. The pursuit of US and Western air dominance is a pipe dream but a fever dream for the military industrial complex. The existential failure of this fighter program has been stunning to behold. The days of manned fighter aircraft are numbered in...
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