Trump's emergency war cabinet meeting after the Iranian rocket attack was strangely anti-climatic. Trump has engaged in non-substantive, face-saving military actions in the past, so maybe this is more of the same? Iran and Trump playing an escalation game to its...
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Was Kataib Hezbollah Even Responsible For That Rocket Attack?
by Scott Horton | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog
They denied it. Scott Ritter wonders whether what's-left-of-ISIS is jerking our chain: The U.S. blamed Iranian-backed Khaitab Hezbollah (no relation to the Lebanese Hezbollah group), for the attacks. There are several problems with this narrative, first and foremost...
News Roundup 1/7/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 7, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The Idaho Republican Party passed two antiwar resolutions at the direction of Afghan and Iraq War vets. [Link] Iranian-Americans attempting to enter the US are facing additional questions, long detentions, and questions of their loyalty to the US. [Link] Over...
The Central Details of the Soleimani Assassination
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog
What happened? On January 3rd, the US used drone strikes to assassinate the leader of Iran’s Quds Force, General Qasem Soleimani, at Baghdad Airport. The airstrike also killed Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) deputy Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and several other...
Iraq War IV?
by Scott Horton | Jan 6, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics, Scott Horton
The U.S.A. has been bombing Iraq for 29 years. And it looks like it’s not over yet: Iraq War I: January—February 1991 (aka The Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait) Iraq War I 1/2: February 1991—March 2003 (The rest of Bush I, Bill Clinton years,...
The Libertarian Case Against Immigration Controls
by Thomas Eddlem | Jan 6, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Libertarians have long held the view that free trade is an absolute net benefit. There is no economic model demonstrating that barriers to trade increase aggregate wealth. Free trade as a net benefit is actually one of the few areas where economists of every school of...
1/3/19 Mustafa Akyol on the New Islamic Secularism
by Scott Horton | Jan 4, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Mustafa Akyol talks about his latest New York Times op-ed, which describes a backlash among the people of the Muslim world to some of the political extremism that has recently become common in the Middle East. Scott and Akyol rehash the history of radical Islamist...
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
by Scott Horton | Dec 30, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Scott Horton
This is all wrong. The entire war on terrorism, and every bit of the suffering, spending and lost liberty that has come with it, has been an unnecessary evil. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attack which got this new era of war started, the enemy in Afghanistan...
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Gaza’s Future and Trump’s Bold Rhetoric: New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Dave DeCamp from Antiwar.com joins us for an eye-opening exploration of Middle Eastern politics. Former President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning about Gaza, claiming "all hell will break loose" if hostages aren't released by his next tenure. Is this another...
RIP USMC: The Corps is Toast
Force Design 2030 murdered the USMC. The Marines are struggling to keep more than one Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) forward deployed at a time. Sometimes, two are forward deployed but only for limited periods. Each MEU has about two weeks of sustainment. Unless...
Meta, Sued for Censorship, Announces End to Faux ‘Fact Checking’
Meta’s announcement came a day after a petition to the Supreme Court was filed against Facebook for censoring truth on behalf of the government.
The Political Moment w/Typo
Typo is back to discuss the current political environment, libertarianism, perfect v good, and Trump’s appointments.
Pentagon Pork Parade: Fat Amy Continues to Prove Pigs Can Fly
Pig can fly on occasion as the F35 Porkulus Project continues to bleed oceans of money. Welcome to Clown World: the F-35 requires nearly 9 million lines of computer code. Meanwhile, Apollo 11's Lunar Lander needed only 145,000 lines of code. There are three variants...
Marine Failure Follies Cascading
I just spent my last podcast episode making the case to dismantle and eliminate the US Marine Corps and they are doing a splendid job of sealing the deal through their latest acquisition fiascos and the Osprey aircraft follies continuing to fall down on the job....
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