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News Roundup 11/15/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 15, 2018 | News Roundup

Troops deployed to the southern border are living in poor conditions. [Link] A ceasefire takes hold in Gaza. [Link] Israel’s Defense Minister resigns over the Israeli government's accepting a ceasefire with Hamas. [Link] US airstrikes kill at least 22 Syrian...

News Roundup 3/27/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog

Trump expels 60 Russian diplomats from the US for Russia's alleged role in the UK nerve agent attack. [Link] 21 other countries will join the US and expel at least one diplomat. [Link] The father of the Pulse Nightclub shooter was an FBI informant from 2005-2016....

Trump Drone Strikes AQ Targets in Lybia

by Scott Horton | Mar 25, 2018 | Blog

Says the NYT.

News Roundup 2/7/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog

Senator Grassley releases a memo on the FISA warrant application to spy on the Trump campaign. [Link] A look at the mismanagement of US nuclear weapons contracts. [Link] Mattis is pushing for the US to develop sea-based nuclear Cruise Missiles. [Link] Trump is pushing...

Foreign Policy Focus #152 – War Propaganda with Trey Weaver

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 7, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

Trey Weaver joins Foreign Policy Focus to discuss war propaganda. The war propaganda changed Americans minds on the Syrian Civil War. Bush used fear to scare Americans into the Iraq War. A media blackout masks the genocide in Yemen. Kyle and Trey also identify some...

2016 Documentary Looks at America’s ‘National Bird’

by Will Porter | May 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

They see everything, they can kill you with impunity and they may be coming to a battlefield or suburb near you. Filmmaker Sonia Kennebeck, in her debut documentary film, “National Bird,” examines America's use of flying unmanned aerial vehicles in our wars overseas,...

4/3/17 Peter Van Buren on his novel Hooper’s War and the US’s entanglement in current real wars

by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Peter Van Buren, a writer and retired US Foreign Service Officer, discusses his fictional account of an alternate WWII where the US invades Japan, in an exploration of how war creates moral injuries that never heal. He also discusses President Trump's increasing use...

US Soldiers Wounded in ‘Insider Attack’ in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Base

by AP | Mar 20, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan soldier opened fire Sunday inside a base in the southern Helmand province, wounding three U.S. soldiers before being shot dead. Navy Cpt. Bill Salvin, a U.S. military spokesman, said coalition forces had killed the soldier "to...

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Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures

Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for...

A Soho Forum discussion of COVID with Tom Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q Check out Tom's great book, Diary of a Psychosis.

US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine

Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three...

The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age

The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...