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News Roundup 1/7/19

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 7, 2019 | News Roundup

US News Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke resigns. [Link] A new lawsuit challenges Arkansas anti-BDS law. The law requires all private companies that do business with the state to sign an agreement not to boycott Israel. [Link] Heavily redacted documents released under an...

9/06/18 Grant F. Smith on Treasury Sanctions for Israel

by Scott Horton | Sep 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Grant F Smith Institute for Research Middle East Policy and author of Big Israel, about the Israel lobby in Washington DC, is interviewed on the results of his FOIA request of the Treasury Department. The office of Terrorism Finance and Development, a relatively new...

6/29/18 Jim Bovard on the Secret Machinations of the FBI

by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Investigative columnist Jim Bovard joins the show to discuss the latest news from the FBI, as well as its history of meddling in American politics. Lots of people have been shocked by the revelations in the recent Inspector General report about the bias of top FBI...

News Roundup 2/16/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog

The State Department Spokeswoman says she will be surprised if the US does not add new sanctions on Russia. [Link] The US senior diplomat to Asia says the US has no planned "bloody nose" strike on North Korea. [Link] The US will waste billions of dollars upgrading...

News Roundup 10/20/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog

An Ohio police officer who caught on video beating a person he pulled over has been fired. [Link] US aid to Latin America elites has lead to more immigrants coming to the US. [Link] Trump disagrees with the State Department's assessment of what is causing sonic...

News Roundup 7/21/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 21, 2017 | Blog

Under Trump, 16 regulations have been repealed for every new regulation added. [Link] Trump says Sessions should never have recused himself from the Russiagate investigation. Sessions responded to Trump saying he will continue to serve as Attorney General as long as...

CIA Torture Report: Where’s Our Next Heroic Whistleblower?

by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 9, 2017 | Blog

In December of 2014, The US Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence issued a report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s “inadequate and deeply flawed” interrogation techniques, concluding that those practices were “not effective” and that they were “far more...

News Roundup 5/5/17

by Kyle Anzalone | May 5, 2017 | Blog

The FOMC announced the FED is not raising interest rates. The FOMC believes the FED will raise interest rates later this year. [Link] The House has passed an Obamacare reform bill. The Senate will write their own healthcare reform bill. [Link] Mass spying in the US...

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“Breed More” They Demand

“Breed! Have more babies!” demands the technocrats on social media, the conservatives even, the religious zealots, even some socialists and naturally the incels who want the State to mandate wives. Apparently humanity needs to constantly swell, to grow in it’s...

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Stealth Technology is Sexy and Useless

On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav Army unit (3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade, which was under the leadership of Colonel Zoltán Dani) shot down an F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft of the United States Air Force...

High on State Power: The Tragic Death of Matthew Perry and the Evil of the War on Drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAsC_MEAxY&list=PLKjJE86mQRtsUs-GDEnmtxSyJmf1ueF_5&index=1&t=1s On Oct. 28, 2023, beloved actor Matthew Perry was found dead in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. Cause of death was ruled “acute effects of ketamine” and...

Sig P320/M17/18: MILSPEC is Overrated

A negligent discharge (ND) in a weapon is when the operator strokes the trigger that results in the firing of the weapon. In my time, the lion's share of these are NDs but actual mechanical (unintentional, accidental or "uncommanded") discharges were rare and then the...

Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part II)

In Part I, I discussed and critiqued an overview of the new efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal. Here, we'll chat (again) about the Sentinel which is the improved replacement for the aging Minuteman III ICBM and it is already in trouble with the schedule sliding...

Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s...

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