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...
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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...
General: US to Stay in Afghanistan for Several More Years
by Jason Ditz | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Milley: 'That mission is not yet complete' In an interview Sunday on ABC, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley predicted that US troops would stay in Afghanistan “for several more years,” the first such estimate offered since President Trump scrapped a...
Trump Cancels Secret Meeting With Taliban and President of Afghanistan
by Steven Woskow | Sep 7, 2019 | Blog
President Trump tweeted that a secret meeting with Taliban negotiators and the President of Afghanistan that was supposed to occur at Camp David on Sunday has been cancelled because of the Taliban attacks in Kabul that killed an American soldier. In his tweet, he...
Trump Afghan ‘Withdrawal’ To Leave 8,600 Troops
by Jason Ditz | Aug 29, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Says US will 'always' have a presence in Afghanistan Attempts by US negotiators to finalize a peace deal to get US troops out of Afghanistan continue to struggle in the face of President Trump’s comments, which continue to focus on all the troops he’s not going to get...
Episode 300: The True Story of ‘300’ and the Spartans w/ Prof. CJ Killmer
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 19, 2019 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
62 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited history professor CJ Killmer to come back on the show and give everyone a real history of the Spartans and the events of the movie 300. CJ destroys myths and gives us an account that we would never see come out of Hollywood. Dangerous...
Peace in Colombia and Afghanistan?
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 14, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #388, I talk about the peace process in Colombia and Afghanistan. In Colomba, the new president Ivan Duque has opposed the peace agreement with the FARC. Now he plans to end funding for a program key to keeping the peace in Colombia. If the program end, the...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Larry Johnson: Is WWIII INCOMING?! Zelensky Attempts to Merge Ukraine, Iran War
Ukraine can look stable on a map while collapsing through its supply lines and that’s where we start. Zelensky claims his relationship with Donald Trump has “absolutely changed” after a private meeting, but we stress-test that optimism against a tougher metric: what...
Simulacra World
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" Roy Batty played by Rutger Hauer said in his ‘Tears in the Rain’, speech at the end of Blade Runner. A film that grapples with the reality of biological and synthetic life, what is real and with the many versions of the...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Jon Hoffman: Did Trump Put Saudi on the Path to Nuclear Weapons?!
A nuclear power deal can sound like paperwork until the fine print turns into a proliferation crisis. We sit down with Jon Hoffman of the Cato Institute to unpack the reported US Saudi nuclear agreement and the real meaning of a “Section 123 agreement” under the...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest David Benner: Israel Stays on the Sidelines While Trump Fights Netanyahu’s War Against Iran
A single line in a must-pass defense bill can change U.S. foreign policy for years, and most people will never hear about it until it is too late. We dig into Section 219 of the NDAA and why critics say it moves beyond “supporting Israel” into something far more...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Larry Johnson: How Can Iran Keep Bombing US Bases
The story we’re being sold about Iran doesn’t survive contact with the facts: if Iran’s military is supposedly “obliterated,” why are US bases still getting hit and US troops still dying? We unpack that disconnect with Larry Johnson, walking through the mechanics of...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Michael Vlahos: Trump’s Iran Gamble: Will it Pay Off or Explode?
If you think the war is basically over because someone said Iran was “decimated,” slow down and do the math. We bring back author and longtime war and strategy teacher Michael Vlahos to dissect the claims coming out of Washington, including a clip of the Secretary of...
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