Download Episode. Scott interviews journalist Kyle Rempfer about a piece he recently published in the Army Times. The article tells the story of Wahedullah Khan, an Afghan commando who was taken into custody in 2018 after firing on Czech coalition troops. Khan was...
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Why Do Our Neighbors Support War with Russia?
by Connor Freeman | Apr 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the world today, the war in Ukraine is the worst thing happening, right? Not really, that would actually be Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest nation. In the Yemen war, now beginning its eighth year, Washington and its satellites Riyadh and Abu...
US Hits Iran With New Sanctions Amid Nuclear Negotiations
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 30, 2022 | News Roundup
The Treasury Department announced a new round of sanctions targeting Iran as talks to save the nuclear agreement are “very close” to a deal. The Treasury will blacklist Mohammad Ali Hosseini and a network of companies, including Jestar Sanat Delijan and Sina...
News Roundup 3/29/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 28, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Department of Justice is seeking $34 million to hire over 100 prosecutors for 1/6 cases. [Link] The Space Force is seeking to increase its budget by 40%. [Link] The US will integrate space and cyber capabilities with Australia. [Link] The new Pentagon...
The Necro-Neologism of Lethal Legal Experts
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
The power of language is magical to behold. Through the mere pronouncement of words, people can be persuaded to do what they would never have thought to do, left to their own devices. The playbook with the most success in this regard is that of war. When people are...
Don’t Apologize, the Antiwar Movement Was Right
by Connor Freeman | Mar 24, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The antiwar movement, the anti-imperialist movement of America, has nothing to apologize for and obediently doing so now is tantamount to facilitating our own systematic demonization, silencing, and persecution. There were notable analysts in the independent media,...
Ukraine, a New Safe Haven for Mercenaries
by Ahmad Salah | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Onrush of the Russian military operation in Ukraine has placed President Volodymyr Zelensky into a troublesome situation. Due to the lack of weaponry and ammunition, copious human losses, and destruction of vital military infrastructure the Ukrainian leader started...
Have We Lost Our Humanity?
by Connor Freeman | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Social media oligarchs and the corporate press are flooding Americans’ minds with Ukrainian officials’ pleas, most notably from President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling for the U.S. and NATO to “close the sky.” That is to implement a No-Fly-Zone over Ukraine, shoot down...
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Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
The populist Sanders-left (which is actually broader because it includes Tucker Carlson and others called rightists) is partly correct and partly incorrect about what happened to the Democrats last Tuesday. They say correctly that the Democrats failed because they...
Bang for your Buck: Fraud, Waste and Abuse as a Lifestyle Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJ0kg9xvLs I don't agree with everything he says and he gets technical details wrong like "...these destroyer class ships, probably doing the same thing the submarine does." No, but that's OK. One thing that is always missed here is...
The Winner Is…
Donald Trump did it, he is the most famous person in the world. His ambitions have been realised. He won and to him that is all that matters. He also just happens to be the next US president, again. Harris was never going to win, she was terrible. She had been the VP...
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Predicts the Death of Zionism
in a recent episode of The Big Picture Podcast hosted by Mohamed Hassan, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why he believes that Israel's genocide in Gaza is the beginning of the end of the Jewish supremacist state enforcing an apartheid regime in Palestine from...
Pentagon Waste: The Legend Continues Part Infinity
Of course they did. Boeing is the gift that keeps on giving A Pentagon audit revealed that Boeing overcharged the Air Force by nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, with some items marked up by as much as 8,000%. The audit reviewed prices paid for 46...
Two Tales, Two Navies
I find some of my correspondents gently berate me for being overwhelmingly negative so I am going to offer insights on occasion into tales of the human spirit that will cause you pause. So dear reader, first, the negativity the modern navy deserves. The floating...
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