Weeks of threats by Turkish President Erdogan to retake Syria’s Idlib Province by force went extremely poorly on Thursday, when Turkish forces moved into an observation post south of Idlib City, and were immediately hammered by airstrikes from both Russia and...
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Peace with the Taliban?
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 19, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #454, I discuss recent progress made in negotiations with the Taliban. The US and Taliban will soon implement a reduction in violence pact. If successful, the pact could be the first step in a peace deal between the US and the Taliban. However, there are a lot...
FDA Expands Ecstasy Access to Veterans with PTSD
by Raymond March | Feb 19, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In 2006, Johnathan Lubecky was deployed to Iraq. While fighting for his country, Johnathan faced constant enemy strikes, one of which resulted in a traumatic brain injury. Exposures to the horrors of war resulted in Johnathan developing post-traumatic stress disorder...
Taliban: Afghanistan Peace Deal Terms Finalized
by Jason Ditz | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen reported on Monday that the US and Taliban have finalized the language of the Afghanistan peace deal. The US has not confirmed this yet, but had indicated in recent days that such a deal was imminent. Afghan CEO Abdullah Abdullah...
18 Months Of Negotiation To Crack The Saudi Blockade Of Yemen
by Steven Woskow | Feb 7, 2020 | Blog
To airlift 7 Yemenis in need of medical care to Jordan. The Saudi blockade of the airport at Sana has prevented much needed medical care going in or out of Yemen. It took 18 months of negotiations just to be able to airlift 7 people. But , the article claims...
Why Bin Laden Has Won
by Zack Sorenson | Jan 10, 2020 | Blog
Iraq's infrastructure is broken. China is making them a deal: they'll help rebuild it, in exchange for some oil. Why is it that the totalitarian communist empire is making friends and money through commercial development and cooperation? How come the "liberal" and...
US Lawmakers Keep Adding to $1.4 Trillion Spending Deal
by Jason Ditz | Dec 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
US lawmakers have agreed to tack on another $24.7 billion in spending to their $1.4 trillion compromise spending package for 2020, hoping this extra spending will be enough to pass the spending bills before a Friday deadline. Passing the compromise spending has been a...
NBC Tattle-Tales on Trump, Claiming He Wants Out of Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Dec 14, 2019 | Blog
Which they take at face value and also to be a horrible, cynical thing to do. Which, if it's at all true, then it probably is for political reasons, but so what? Doesn't that just mean that that's what the American people -- the right even -- want to happen, and that...
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The Royal Navy is Now a Third World Force
The development and maintenance of advanced naval platforms like the HMS Queen Elizabeth are costly endeavors. Budgetary constraints have often led to delays in maintenance and upgrades, exacerbating existing issues and preventing timely resolution of technical...
I Have a Dream!
Dear President Trump, Fire missions! Please conduct airstrikes on: The FBI Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia. AND The NSA Bluffdale/Camp Williams LEED Silver facility in Saratoga Springs, Utah. Please be sure to evacuate all employees to a local...
Dust to Dust: Imperial Decline is Baked into the Statist Recipe
Nothing is working for anyone with a clear eye to reform in the Department of Defense. We may find some reform will take place now but I am cynical and not holding out much hope. Nothing. "Fixes are proposed; panels are held; good, sensible reforms are constantly...
The Biggest Heist in Human History
Thought experiment: what if it turns out that the happy warriors for the socialist & government supremacist projects claiming aspirations of altruistic and shining ambition for the betterment of humankind were insincere and all of it was actually a gigantic grift...
The Past is Future Tense, Always
The Wayback Machine reminds us of all past tense showing us the future. The base in Balakliya, near Kharkiv, is around 100km (60 miles) from fighting against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern oblasts (2017). 2017: “The Ukrainian SBU – the equivalent of the FBI...
Vance in Munich w/Kyle Matovcik
Kyle joined me to listen and discuss Vance’s fiery speech at the Munich Security Council last week.
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