Joe Dyke from Airwars.org joins the show to discuss his new report, coauthored with Imogen Piper, which attempts to count civilian deaths resulting directly from U.S. airstrikes during the Terror Wars. Dyke says he and his colleagues want civilian deaths to be part of...
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News Roundup 9/14/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 14, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The proposed Pentagon funding bill (NDAA) contains the Just In Case Act. If the NDAA is passed, the new law will allow the Pentagon to bail out defense contractors. [Link] New York City will only pay death benefits to subway workers who are vaccinated. [Link]...
News Roundup 9/13/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 13, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Two FDA regulators resigned their post over Biden’s plan for covid vaccine booster shots. [Link] The Surgeon General wants Biden to monitor for abuses of vaccine exemptions. [Link] Biden is releasing $25 billion in bailout money to healthcare providers. [Link]...
A Fitting Flourish on a 20 Year Killing Spree
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On August 29, 2021, the U.S. military killed a group of people in Kabul, Afghanistan, using a Hellfire missile launched from an MQ-9 Reaper drone. The Pentagon claimed that “the procedures were correctly followed, and it was a righteous strike.” In a surprising...
News Roundup 9/9/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 9, 2021 | News Roundup
Assange Siggi Thordarson explains why he lied about Julian Assange. The US government attempts to use Siggi’s statements to get Assange extradited from the UK. [Link] Brazil Glenn Greenwald covers the protest in Brazil. [Link] China The US carried out warship...
How the FBI’s War on Drugs Contributed to the 9/11 Attacks
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Sep 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The story of 9/11 is filled with painful “what-ifs.” Among the most prominent: What if the CIA hadn’t blocked two FBI agents from alerting Bureau headquarters that a future 9/11 hijacker had obtained a multi-entry U.S. visa? What if the FBI hadn’t nixed agents’...
News Roundup 9/7/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 7, 2021 | News Roundup
Myanmar Myanmar’s military rulers agree to a humanitarian ceasefire through the end of the year. [Link] Myanmar’s opposition government called for the people to rise up against the military coup government. [Link] Pakistan Three Pakistani soldiers were killed by a...
U.S. Airstrikes Have Killed Up To 48,000 Civilians in the War on Terror
by Oscar Rickett | Sep 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As many as 48,000 civilians have been killed in the last 20 years as a direct result of U.S. air strikes, according to an Airwars investigation that sheds new light on the human cost of Washington’s so-called “war on terror”. Publishing its findings ahead of the 20th...
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Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On
The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...
Blaming Freedom
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
Insurrection of the Mind.
Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...
They Know the Truth
Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...
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