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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News Roundup 8/27/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 27, 2018 | News Roundup
Lt Gen Kenneth McKenzie will replace Gen Votel as the head of CENTCOM. [Link] The US Navy will reactivate the 2nd Naval Fleet. The Fleet will patrol the Atlantic to combat Russia. [Link] During the March expulsion of diplomats between the US and Russia, US spies were...
The Kurds have lost the chance to decide their fate: only Damascus can save them
by Elijah Magnier | Jun 26, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of Syria “very soon” and to deliver the city of Manbij to Turkey fell as a shock to the Syrian Kurds gathered in the northern part of the country. These Kurds, who act on a day-to-day basis as a shield for the US forces, have been...
News Roundup 5/3/18
by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2018 | News Roundup
A Puerto Rican Air National Guard plane crashed in Georgia killing all nine on board. [Link] The US is advancing testing of a new nuclear gravity bomb. [Link] The proposed AUMF will give the president power to detain Americans indefinitely. [Link] The US transferred...
4/27/18 Samuel Oakford on the Atrocities Committed in Mosul and Raqqa
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Airwars reporter Sam Oakford returns to the show to discuss his latest work, "Raqqa: A City Destroyed Then Forgotten" and "They're Still Pulling Bodies out of ISIS' capital." Scott begins by asking—what do we know about Mosul and the coalition assault to take the city...
News Roundup 3/21/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 21, 2018 | Blog
The police officer who shot and killed Justine Damond has finally been charged with murder. [Link] Sacramento police shoot and kill a young man. Police report mistaking a cell phone for a gun. The two police officers shot the man 20 times. [Link] The Senate votes to...
1/5/18 Elijah Magnier on U.S. occupation of eastern Syria following fight against ISIS
by Scott Horton | Jan 5, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Middle east correspondent Elijah Magnier returns to the show to discuss the U.S. presence in eastern Syria. Magnier explains what the United States' goals are, why they won't leave without guaranteeing a political transition and how they've, for the time being,...
2017 Review: Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2017 | Blog
On the night of Trump’s inauguration, he approved a raid on al-Qaeda in a village in central Yemen. Two Americans were killed in the raid: Chief Petty Officer Ryan Williams and 8-year-old Nawar Anwar al-Awlaki. Nawar was hit in the neck with a bullet and died in her...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show with Daniel McAdams: Axios Says US–Iran Deal Reached as U.S. and IRAN Trade Missile Fire
Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is...
To Baptize the State w/John Weeks
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
Trump Continues to Test Limits of Iran Ceasefire, How Will Tehran Respond?
A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what...
The Kyle Anzalone Show Trump Has Allowed Netanyahu to Control Negotiations, and it’s hurting Americans
Memorial Day brings out a lot of scripted lines, but we want to talk about the part that gets avoided: what American wars actually cost, who pays, and how often the public is left holding the bill while elites chase ideology, influence, and profit. We start by looking...
Obsession (2025) a review of sorts, or maybe just my thoughts…
It was refreshing to walk into a full cinema for a film that was not attached to a video game or some 20th century property suffering through needless cannibalism. Alas, Blumhouse has managed to produce another hit with a small budget, slim cast of relative unknowns...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Has Lost in Iran, What Will He Do Next?
Trump says he wants “few people killed,” then talks like bombing Iran is a weekly calendar event. That contradiction is where we start, because the public narrative around the Iran war keeps snapping from all-out threats to last-minute “negotiations” as deadlines...
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