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America, F*ck Yeah!

by Scott Horton | Nov 2, 2019 | Blog

CIA's former(?) "moderate" jihadist terrorists blast DoD's Kurdish YPG friends with U.S. TOW missile. https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1190711269197799425 You had better take your hat off and put it over your heart when we all sing government's special song...

10/18/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Winding Down of the War in Syria

by Scott Horton | Oct 21, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Patrick Cockburn about the situation with the Kurds in Syria. Scott calls Syria a win-win-win-win: The Kurds have negotiated a deal with Assad that will give them some autonomy and protection from Turkey, Turkey gets a roughly 30-mile border buffer with...

Blowback: CSIS Study Says 4 Times As Many Militants Since 9/11/2001

by Steven Woskow | Oct 1, 2019 | Blog

Blowback from the US war on terror is actually creating more terrorist. Zerohedge is reporting the results from a study published by Center for Strategic and International Studies including a map showing where the expansion of terrorism has occurred. "Despite nearly...

9/27/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Changing Nature of Global Warfare

by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn discusses the recent attacks on a Saudi oil facility, an American drone, and two Japanese tankers, all of which have been pinned to various degrees on Iran. It's unclear to what extent Iran actually was involved—it's always possible that this is a...

6/14/19 Peter Ford on the Jihadis Left in Syria

by Scott Horton | Jun 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Peter Ford about the latest in Syria and Iraq. America and the allied "coalition" have made the same mistake over and over again in the Middle East, says Ford, and President Trump seems to be walking the same path; he claims one day that he wants to...

6/14/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Disastrous Results of US Policy in the Middle East

by Scott Horton | Jun 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to the great Patrick Cockburn about war and politics in Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and the general disaster that has resulted from America's thinking it could completely remake the Middle East. Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent...

News Roundup 5/9/19

by Kyle Anzalone | May 10, 2019 | News Roundup

A Florida city is attempting to seize the home of an elderly man who let his grass get too long while he was caring for his dying mother. [Link] The US lifts sanctions on a Venezuelan general who defected. [Link] A deputy of Juan Guaido was arrested by the Venezuelan...

Empire Failures guest Marko Marjanovic

by Kyle Anzalone | May 6, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest

Marko Marjanovic returns to FPF to talk about Venezuela and Syria. Kyle and Marko discuss how US regime change efforts in Venezuela have failed to topple Maduro. The US actions have hurt the Venezuelan people and increased Maduro's popularity. In Syria, Assad is...

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