An apparent drone attack targeting Iran’s Parchin military complex earlier this week was launched from within the country, the New York Times reported, suggesting the deadly incident followed a “pattern” of previous strikes carried out by Israel.
by Will Porter | May 28, 2022 | News Roundup
An apparent drone attack targeting Iran’s Parchin military complex earlier this week was launched from within the country, the New York Times reported, suggesting the deadly incident followed a “pattern” of previous strikes carried out by Israel.
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 21, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Houston will require businesses to install cameras and make the footage available to police without a warrant. [Link] Russia A decreasing number of Americans believe the US should play a major role in the war in Ukraine. [Link] Turkey says some NATO members...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 20, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #264, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover Washington and NATO’s latest escalations in the Ukraine war with Russia. Kyle breaks down reports of American weapons shipped to Kiev disappearing into what an official called a “big black hole.” The U.S. is shipping...
by Keith Knight | Apr 16, 2022 | Blog
(Photo Credit: shimlatimes.in) Here are a collection of excerpts from mainstream sources on the Shanghai lockdowns. **Reminder**: China has one of the highest vaccination rates on the planet at 86.1%. In Shanghai, 25 million people remain locked down as 26,087 new...
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 16, 2022 | News Roundup
As many as 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia invaded on February 24, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as the two sides continue to offer radically different casualty estimates.
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 13, 2022 | News Roundup
US troops in Europe will begin training Ukrainian forces on howitzers and radars. The systems will be transferred to Ukraine as a part of the $800 million arms package President Joe Biden authorized on Wednesday. The US scaled back its exercises with Ukrainian forces...
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 13, 2022 | News Roundup
The White House is set to approve another $750 million weapons shipment to Ukraine, with officials telling multiple outlets the lethal aid will include heavy artillery, sea drones and attack helicopters.
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 7, 2022 | News Roundup
The US military is moving weapons into Ukraine at breakneck speed, with officials saying arms transfers have “never been done that fast before” as Washington supplies hundreds of millions of dollars in lethal aid to repel Russia’s ongoing invasion.
I spent a lot of time dealing with the victim of violence. That betrayal only a lover can express, the sinister switch from affection or at least the performance required to invent love, to twist into a tantrum of rage. The bruising and cuts, a secondary blistering to...
A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,”...
Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is...
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what...
Memorial Day brings out a lot of scripted lines, but we want to talk about the part that gets avoided: what American wars actually cost, who pays, and how often the public is left holding the bill while elites chase ideology, influence, and profit. We start by looking...
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