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...
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Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
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
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 27, 2021 | News Roundup
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)
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 3, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Vital Dissent
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
by Scott Horton | Jul 15, 2020 | Blog
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
by Scott Horton | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog
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”
by Steven Woskow | May 29, 2019 | Blog
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...
General Says Marine Killed by IED in Afghanistan Should’ve Worn His Seat Belt
by Scott Horton | Apr 23, 2019 | Blog
Not that he's dissembling after helping get this man killed or anything. I mean you know hey it may be true in a sense but in another sense yeah no it was the bomb and the presence of the marine in the first place that caused it.
Nationalize Healthcare Now!
by Scott Horton | Feb 8, 2019 | Blog
The U.S. government will take real good care of you. (Or, "Oh, you like playing the trumpet? You're a perfect fit for the U.S. Marine Corps.")
Trump Sends the Marines to Syria
by Scott Horton | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog
Haven't I told you for the last year or more he was going to send the Marines to eastern Syria? I admit I thought he's send 'em to Mosul first, but I guess the special ops guys have got that handled -- for now. Well now he's sent Marine artillery and infantry too. Now...
1/11/17 Hope Hodge Seck on the deployment of 300 Marines to Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Hope Hodge Seck, a writer for Military.com, discusses the Obama administration's last-minute deployment of a 300-Marine team of advisors to Helmand province in Afghanistan, where the Taliban is resurgent and no reliable opposition exists.
07/04/03 – Kenneth E. Mayers – The Scott Horton Show
by Scott Horton | Jul 4, 2003 | The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Kenneth E. Mayers, a former US Marine Corps Officer, and the Santa Fe, New Mexico contact for the Veterans For Peace, about the war in Iraq. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy9X1QiJvpM&t=330s
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My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
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