On FPF #143, I look at the Turkish position on the geopolitical stage. Turkey is a NATO member state and houses US nuclear weapons. Turkey has recently moved closer to Russia and bought the Russian S-400 missile system. In Syria, Turkey backed rebels linked to...
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Foreign Policy Focus #142 – Syria & a False Alarm
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 15, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #142, I discuss the war in Syria. Israel has continued to bomb the Assad regime. Turkey is now threatening to invade Syria to attack the Kurds. Syria and Russia are waging a brutal air war against the Syrian rebels. The US says we are staying in Syria out of...
Foreign Policy Focus #142 – Syria & a False Alarm
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 15, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #142, I discuss the war in Syria. Israel has continued to bomb the Assad regime. Turkey is now threatening to invade Syria to attack the Kurds. Syria and Russia are waging a brutal air war against the Syrian rebels. The US says we are staying in Syria out of...
Foreign Policy Focus #142 – Syria & a False Alarm
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 15, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #142, I discuss the war in Syria. Israel has continued to bomb the Assad regime. Turkey is now threatening to invade Syria to attack the Kurds. Syria and Russia are waging a brutal air war against the Syrian rebels. The US says we are staying in Syria out of...
11/6/17 Reese Erlich on the political turmoil in Iraqi-Kurdistan and Saudi Arabia
by Damon Hatheway | Nov 6, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Reese Erlich returns to the show to discuss his latest article for Antiwar.com, "US Sells Out the Kurds—Again" Erlich discusses the history of the Kurds in Iraq, America's yo-yoing approach to first supporting then betraying the Kurds, and how it all relates back to...
10/30/17 Joe Lauria on Iraqi-Kurdistan and the latest Russia-gate developments
by Damon Hatheway | Oct 30, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria, editor of "How I Lost By Hillary Clinton" returns to the show to discuss the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan where the Kurdish president Masoud Barzani has resigned as a result of the backlash from the independence referendum. Lauria details the consequences...
10/27/17 Patrick Cockburn on Iraqi Kurdistan and the liberation of Raqqa
by Damon Hatheway | Oct 27, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn joins Scott from Baghdad to discuss the liberation of Raqqa from ISIS and the battle in Kirkurk between the Iraqi army and Peshmerga. Cockburn describes how ISIS is still in business as a guerrilla force, but the caliphate has been destroyed. Cockburn...
News Roundup 10/19/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog
Patrick Cockburn explains how the US could lose by Trump decertifying the Iran nuclear agreement. [Link] Catalonia's president said Catalonia will secede from Spain if Spain removes Catalan autonomy. [Link] Amnesty International says the Myanmar forces killed hundreds...
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David Boaz (1953-2024)
With great sadness I note the passing of David Boaz today, June 7, 2024, at age 70. He had been ill for some time. He was a good man and a giant of the libertarian movement. Very much because of David's influence and example, libertarian organizations not only...
Provoked Book Update
As many of you know, I'm working on a book called Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. You may also know that it's way overlong and way overdue. Well, the news is that I got it up to 1,400 pages, and more than...
Wonderful Israeli Best Friends and Most Moral Army in World History™ Torture, Murder Palestinians with Electro-shock, Sodomy
New York Times: Eight former detainees, all of whom the military has confirmed were held at the site and who spoke on the record, variously said they had been punched, kicked and beaten with batons, rifle butts and a hand-held metal detector while in custody. One said...
Nothing New in Military Technology Disasters
Readers think I am highly critical of Western military foibles and bad decisions (I am) but history is replete with mismanagement and poor planning planet-wide in military technology. Like the Indian nuclear submarine disaster from leaving a hatch open on the INS...
What Inequality?
According to research conducted by Phil Gramm, the late Robert Ekelund, and John Early, documented in The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate and summarized in this video: The bottom 20 percent of households have an average annual income...
Immigration Talk
I talk about immigration with Michael Liebowitz on The Rational Egoist.
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