Yesterday the Federal Reserve raised interest rates and projected two more rate hikes by year-end. The stock market's reaction was muted, but silver and gold firmed up after the news and are ticking up this morning. At some point, the FOMC is going to pause on its...
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News Roundup 5/21/18
by Kyle Anzalone | May 21, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump will nominate Robert Wilkie to head the VA. [Link] Dan Wright and Joanne Leon update the insanity of Russiagate. [Link] Jeremy Scahill hosts Ron Wyden and Norman Finkelstein on the Intercepted podcast. Wyden discusses the torturer Gina Haspel, and Finkelstein...
FB Asks Users If It Should Allow Pedophiles to Ask Kids for Sexual Pictures
by James Holbrooks | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. In a move that’s baffling at best and rather appalling at worst, Facebook has been busted asking users if they think it’s alright for adults to solicit “sexual pictures” from minors on its platform. While this may...
News Roundup 3/1/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog
The US government reports the economy grew 2.5% in Q4. [Link] Hope Hicks resigns as White House Communications Director. [Link] A Hamilton 68 co-founder exposes some problems in the "Russian Bots" narrative. [Link] Trump suggests police should seize guns from people...
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...
News Roundup 1/18/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog
A 14-year-old girl was arrested for giving food to the homeless. [Link] Trump give Paul Krugman the fake news award. [Link] Korean Olympic talks upend US Korea strategy. [Link] Koreans will enter Olympics under one banner. [Link] Ethiopia's proposed Nile damn creates...
News Roundup 7/11/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
The Third Circut Court of Appeals has ruled that filming police is a right protected by the First Amendment. [Link] A man accused of plotting a terror attack claims the FBI entrapped him. The man accused says FBI informants pushed him to buy machine guns. [Link] The...
7/7/17 James Carden on President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin
by Damon Hatheway | Jul 11, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
James Carden joins the show to talk about his latest article, "A Fateful Encounter: On Today's Meeting Between Presidents Trump and Putin," on Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit. Carden also discusses how Liberal Twitter is off its hinge, how...
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Anti-War Blog – Just a Meme of Their Time
So much to watch, to scroll past. To ignore. Apparently life is so busy, too much going on to care. The need to escape is paramount, to avoid reality. A reality many claim to be normal. Important even. A woman uses her degree to move about on the Olympic stage, elite...
Analysis of the ICJ’s Ruling that Israel’s Occupation Is Illegal
Scott Horton and I discuss the significance of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal.
Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
The Case for Not Voting
Bretigne Shaffer and I explain why, if you want to effect real change, the most sensible thing you can do is to not vote.
The Royal Navy Submarine Force Remains Surfaced
The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...