I started on the radio in late 1998, but today is the 20th anniversary of the interview show. First of 5,894 so far was the great Alan Bock on Iraq, three days after the marines pulled down Saddam's statue in Baghdad. The full archive is here.
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News Roundup 12/29/21
US News Biden says he will implement a ban on unvaccinated Americans from accessing domestic air travel if medical experts approve the plan. [Link] The LAPD releases the footage of the killing of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta. Orellana-Peralta was killed when...
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
News Roundup 12/27/21
Covid Massachusetts halts all elective procedures. [Link] The USS Milwaukee will remain in Cuba after several sailors tested positive for Covid. [Link] USAID is running out of money to distribute covid vaccinations. [Link] The US donates 1.5 million vaccine doses to...
Fallujah Veteran Shares His War Experience Ep. 177 (Scott’s Story Part I)
https://youtu.be/arKN0-K05BU Returning guest Scott Spaulding joins us the first episode in a planned four-part series to discuss his deployment experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. In this episode, Scott recounts his entire first deployment as a Civil Affairs Marine,...
U.S. Navy is a Joke
Their obsolete-before-they're-even-made new aircraft carriers don't work worth a damn. Meanwhile the carrier reduced to slag in San Diego was meant to host the marines' F-35, whose vertical takeoff mode burns holes right through the decks of other carriers. Don't...
NYT Reporter, Former Marine, Thomas Gibbons-Neff Writes About His War in Marjah
What a waste. Getting a good reporter out of the whole deal isn't much consolation, but we'll have to settle.
Gen. Joe Dunford: The U.S. is seeking to close a “gap in perception”
Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, doubles down on intel about Iran threat at Brookings Institution May 29, 2019 What the hell is a gap in perception? "we wanted the Iranians to know that if they did anything, it would be attributed...
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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole
Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...
Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government
