In summer blockbusters and other entertainment, the United States Armed Forces are almost always portrayed through the lens of their most elite units, such as the Navy SEALS or the Army Rangers. But while the special forces are heroes in their own right, they’re not...
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Idaho Cop Arrested For Repeatedly Raping Immobile Cancer Patient
by Matt Agorist | Feb 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In one of the most disturbing instances of police sexual misconduct we’ve reported here at the Free Thought Project a retired police corporal was arrested this week for repeatedly raping a woman so sick with cancer that she couldn’t fight back. Scott Wayne McMikle,...
Idaho Man Mistakenly Shot By Cops In His Backyard
by Steven Woskow | Feb 11, 2021 | Blog
"An Idaho police officer fatally shot a man in his own backyard Monday while searching a neighborhood for a suspect believed to be armed, officials said." This is how the cops describe the shooting: "We do not currently have the answers as to what exactly occurred...
The Oregon Standoff: Understanding LaVoy Finicum’s Death & the Management of BLM Land
by Sam Jacobs | Jan 28, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
The standoff and occupation at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016 was about more than standing up to the federal government over “grazing fees” on Bureau of Land Management land. Learn the forgotten history of the ranchers and militia who fought for land freedom and 2A rights.
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2021 | Blog, Featured Articles, Scott Horton
I wrote another book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism .Advance Praise for Enough Already “If you only read one book this year on America’s unending ‘War on Terror,’ it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United...
How Donald Trump Is Closing the Door on the Afghan War
by Dan McKnight | Nov 21, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The lame duck period has always been something of a dull, transitionary state in American politics. We’re more accustomed to presidents using their last moments of authority to pardon powerful friends and other unpopular favors. Contrary to these expectations,...
On Tuesday, Antiwar Voters Might Decide the Presidential Election
by Hunter DeRensis | Nov 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On Monday [two weeks ago], on the 19th anniversary of U.S. soldiers hitting the ground in Afghanistan, dozens of people gathered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with the goal of ensuring that our men and women in uniform won’t be in Afghanistan for another anniversary....
YouTube Censoring Veterans’ Antiwar Video
by Bring Our Troops Home | Oct 27, 2020 | Blog, Foreign Policy
WEST CHESTER, PA. — Silicon Valley’s selective censorship of news stories isn’t limited to just the U.S. presidential election, a right of center veterans group said Monday. YouTube and Google platforms are violating the free speech rights of an Afghanistan and Iraq...
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Just Write Something Nice!
“Why don’t you write something nice? That will make people smile, and be happy?” I am certain that many writers past and present who occupy the field I am in, are asked this question. Why write about the misery of the world? Why look into the injustices? And peer...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: After 23 Years, Is the Iraq War Finally Over?
The Iraq War has been a “still going” story for so long that it barely feels real when someone says it might finally be ending. We sit down with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson to talk through what the last American forces leaving Iraq could actually mean, not just for...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Prepares for a MORE War With Iran
“Only because I wanted to go further.” That single line from Donald Trump’s Time magazine interview changes how you should read the entire Iran war timeline. I’m solo today, digging into the most relevant sections of the interview and separating performative victory...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest LARRY JOHNSON: Trump’s Iran War Threat Reaches the Brink
A lot of foreign policy talk collapses into slogans until you ask one simple question: if things are going fine, why are oil prices still telling a different story? We bring Larry Johnson back to sort through the gap between public claims and what the Strait of...
The Mog Abides
Operation Gothic Serpent 3 October 1993 Shughart: “Gordy’s gone man. I’ll be outside.” There is no doubt Mogidishu, Somalia was a bad conflict (American has not been involved in a good one since 1871) but the valor and sprezzatura of Gordon and Shughart is off the...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Showdown at the UN as the US and Iran Escalate Tensions
Trump takes the UN stage and talks about Iran the way politicians talk when they want options to expand a war without owning the cost. I walk through what he said, why it lands as bluster instead of strategy, and how that kind of rhetoric can still be dangerous when...











