Episode Notes The April 1961 Generals’ Putsch of Algiers (Putsch des généraux), was a failed military action to press French President Charles de Gaulle to not abandon French Algeria, along with French people and pro-French Arabs living there. The putsch in French...
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BBC Admits Syria Gas Attack Report Had Serious Flaws
This sham chemical weapons claim is what drove Trump to conduct a missile strike on Syria at the urging of his generals. "The BBC has admitted that a Radio 4 documentary on an alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria contained serious inaccuracies. The Corporation's...
U.S. Embassy In Afghanistan Issues Security Alert – U.S. Citizens Should Leave Afghanistan Immediately
More here Will anyone be held accountable? All the generals responsible will go on to have successful careers at Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin .....
Trump Is Right: Afghanistan Is A ‘Loser War’
"After three years of the Trump presidency, the Washington Post is breathlessly reporting that Donald Trump is a boor who insults everyone, including generals used to respect and even veneration. He’s had the impertinence to ask critical questions of his military...
The Afghanistan Papers Reveal the Government Knew the War Was a Lost Cause
On FPF #429, I discuss the Afghanistan Papers. The large cache of documents were released by the Washington Post via FOIA. The papers show the successive White House administrations and Pentagon generals knew the Afghan War was unwinnable but continued to send...
Generals Punk Weak Loser Trump on Afghan ‘Safe Haven’ Myth
How easy is it for the Pentagon to hold the president down and screw him right in the brain? Incredibly, fantastically easy. Very successful! Osama bin Laden is surely laughing in Hell.
The Antiwar Comic: Talking Out of Both Sides
Our foreign policy in a nutshell. Trying to travel in opposite directions at once. For more comics, visit The Webcomic Factory.
1/20/17 Kelley Vlahos on the loss of civilian control of the military – and if it even matters
Kelley B. Vlahos, a Washington, DC-based freelance reporter, discusses the unusual number of recently-retired generals in Donald Trump's administration and whether security and foreign policy will be negatively effected as a result; and how Trump's shift to the right...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...