On FPF #337, I discuss news in the relationship between the US and China. Taiwan has become a more source of more tension as the US has increased ties with Taiwan. The US is also putting more pressure on the Chinese company Huawei. Tump's nominee for Defense Secretary...
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After Moral Injury: Backing Through A Side Door Into Consciousness
by Steven Woskow | May 27, 2019 | Blog
On Memorial Day Bill R. Edmonds on war and moral injury : "Some do not get to come home. For those who do, however, some bring their wars home, within them. Too often, they go on to suffer alone, and in silence. Too often, their traumas last a lifetime. Healing,...
Bolton Assures Coast Guard Graduates
by Steven Woskow | May 23, 2019 | Blog
They won't be left out of his plans for world domination “Soon, with the help of the new Polar Security Cutter," he said, “the Coast Guard will lead the way in reasserting American leadership in the Arctic, which has been neglected for far too long.”
April tax Receipts Up 1.8% at $2 Trillion
by Steven Woskow | May 13, 2019 | Blog
Unfortunately, spending is up 7.6% to $2.57 trillion. The largest increase is debt service, up 13.6% from last year. This is in a low interest rate environment. The Fed is trapped in maintaining low interest rates. Danielle DiMartino: "Fed controlled rates...
Bipartisanship
by Scott Horton | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog
"Consider this: three of my soldiers were killed and one committed suicide under Bush II; three more were killed and two more took their own lives under Obama - now there’s a balanced scorecard!" -Danny Sjursen
Carter to Trump: USA Has Been Wasting Money on All the Wars He Started
by Scott Horton | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog
Politico: He told Sunday’s congregation that Trump said he felt China was “'getting ahead of us,'” adding that he agreed with the president. “And do you know why? I normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Since 1979, do you know how many times China has...
This Morning on Antiwar Radio
by Scott Horton | Apr 14, 2019 | Blog
Philip Weiss on Netanyahu and the liberal crack-up over Israel. 8:30 Pacific, 90.7 FM in L.A. http://kpfk.org
AIPAC Targets Sanders
by Scott Horton | Apr 13, 2019 | Blog
The first Jewish president? Not if the Israel Lobby has anything to say about it. He's not Zionist enough. And as we all know, there's only one possible explanation for that: Bernie Sanders is evidently a vicious anti-Semite.
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Are we already fighting WWIII? Welcome to the Circus! Watch the New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Welcome back to the Kyle Anzalone Show! In today's explosive episode, we look into the escalating tensions that have many questioning whether we are on the brink of World War III. The recent transfer of long-range missiles from the US to Ukraine marks a significant...
John Boyd: Patterns of Conflict
COL John Boyd was a singular mind in military matters and had a terrific impact on shattering some of the myths that have made the American military art since 1945 so awful and mired in defeat. Boyd was a heavy intellectual lifter in innovative ideas and one of the...
Economics and Everyday Life, 2
"[E]conomic relations constitute a machinery by which men devote their energies to the immediate accomplishment of each other's purposes in order to secure the ultimate accomplishment of their own, irrespective of what those purposes of their own may be, and therefore...
Anti-War Blog – She Was Only Ten Years Old
She was only ten years of age. A girl. A daughter. Innocent. Tala Abu Ajwa was roller skating in early September when Israeli government missiles took her life, along with several other civilians. The image of Tala’s pink roller skates still attached to her young body...
CG Announcement November 2024
Me contemplating the Herculean task before me... I will be pausing Chasing Ghosts from its fortnightly cadence of issuance for the remainder of the year. I am taking the time to regroup and focus on the new occasional podcast, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast as a...
Economics and Everyday Life
"[T]he general principles which regulate our conduct in business are identical with those which regulate our deliberations, our selections between alternatives, and our decisions, in all other branches of life. And this is why we not only may, but must, take our...
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