NYT on CIA Afghan death squads: “They said, ‘Don’t come out — if the airstrikes hit you, then don’t complain,’” said Adel, whose face had shrapnel wounds from the raid. While the family waited in the house, Adel’s father bled to death in the yard. Mohibullah, a...
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‘Blowback’ and the Frustrating Necessity of Rebutting David French
by John Dangelo III | Dec 29, 2018 | Featured Articles, Op Eds
David French is one of my least favorite people on Twitter. Former Major in the US Army, Iraq War vet and columnist for National Review, French spends his day's online hand-wringing about the need for "realism" in foreign policy, ergo an enormous military, all to keep...
News Roundup 12/28/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 28, 2018 | News Roundup
Fentanyl is used in half of opioid deaths. [Link] A Mississippi sheriff was arrested for embezzlement, having sex with inmates, and threatening his employees. [Link] Police force doctors to perform a non consensual anal exam on a man they suspected of having drugs....
11/30/18 Ted Galen Carpenter on Libya and Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Dec 1, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Carpenter rejoins the show to discuss both of his recent articles for The American Conservative. The first outlines Libya's political history since the ouster of Gaddafi, in which several promised democratic elections have come and gone. Now politicians are...
News Roundup 11/26/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 26, 2018 | News Roundup
A woman spent three months in jail after police mistook cotton candy for meth. [Link] A judge orders George Papadopoulos to jail. [Link] The White House gives authority to US troops deployed to the southern border to use lethal force to protect border patrol. [Link]...
11/11/18 Andrea Carboni on an Accurate Estimate of the Death Toll in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Nov 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Andrea Carboni from ACLED Data comes on the show to talk about their casualty estimates for the war in Yemen. "10,000" is the number that has been used for the last few years, but that's exactly why it can't possibly be right. ACLED estimates that there have actually...
War is the Health of the State
by Randolph Bourne | Nov 11, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Will Grigg Radio
(Part One of the unfinished essay, "The State") To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World War I] brought a sense of the sanctity of the State which, if they had had time to think about it, would have seemed a sudden and...
11/9/18 Arnold Isaacs on Remembering the Vietnam War
by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Arnold Isaacs joins the show to discuss the flawed ways the Vietnam War is remembered and commemorated. All too often, he explains, American crimes are whitewashed or left out altogether. If we don't face up to the deeds of our military and government in previous wars...
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Want to Know What’s REALLY Happening in Ukraine? Plus, Netanyahu’s Arrest Warrant! Watch Episode 1 of The Kyle Anzalone Show
In the first episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show, I explore global conflicts, focusing on the ICC's war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I question whether justice will be served and highlight the...
The SANDF is a Military Dumpster Fire
The South African National Defense Force (SANDF) is in tatters. The SA Navy is also in the hazard. One glaring example is the MTU 1163 propulsion engine. Grimms was paid R55 million for a W6 engine overhaul, yet the engine has still not undergone a dyno test or no...
Terrestrial Speed Demon: Non-Nuclear Throw-Weight Comes of Age
Russians play chess and the West plays Naked Twister. ICBMs and IRBMs have been hyper-sonic since the 1950s. Replace the warhead with a terrestrial-launched Rod from God and you have a very effective non-nuclear option to reach anywhere in the northern hemisphere with...
Macgregor Steps Up to the Plate
COL Douglas Macgregor shows the stark choices ahead a defense establishment in the US and the west that is inexorably grinding to a halt in effectiveness and incompetence. The incoming President has three choices: 1. Allow service bureaucracies or external events to...
Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
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