At the beginning of last month the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Ethan Goldrich, granted an interview to Rudaw, which is something like PBS for Iraqi Kurdistan. He emphasized that the United States has no plan to end its occupation...
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Israeli Killing of Hamas Political Chief Expected To Derail Ceasefire Talks
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 31, 2024 | News
Netanyahu had been working to sabotage the talks in the weeks leading up to his trip to Washington The Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital of Tehran is expected to derail negotiations for a hostage and Gaza...
Israel’s Imperial Techno-Optimism
by John Weeks | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Saturday, a rocket struck a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least twelve people were killed, mostly teenagers and children. Israel blamed the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah for the attack. Hezbollah denied the charge and claimed...
News Roundup 7/31/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 31, 2024 | News Roundup
China US Announces $500 Million in New Military Aid for Philippines Amid China Tensions AWC Israel State Department Won’t Call Israeli Rape of Palestinian Prisoners a War Crime AWC Israeli Strike Hits Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza AWC Palestinians Return to Rubble in...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
by Bill Buppert | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
Two Decades Later, the Applause Continues…
by James Wile | Jul 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel spoke before a joint session of the United States Congress on July 24 to address the terror attacks of October 7 and ask for continued support for his war on Gaza. Before Netanyahu even arrived in Washington DC, my thoughts...
News Roundup 7/30/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 30, 2024 | News Roundup
Venezuela US Accuses Venezuela of Election Manipulation After Maduro Victory, Threatens Sanctions AWC Russia US Announces $1.7 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine AWC F-16s to Appear in Ukraine Within Weeks, Will Operate Far From Front The Institute EU Transfers $1.6...
F-16s to Appear in Ukraine Within Weeks, Will Operate Far From Front
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 29, 2024 | News
Ukraine is set to begin receiving F-16 fighter jets from its Western backers later this week after months of delays. The advanced aircraft will serve in a limited role out of fear they will be easily shot down by Russian air defenses. Well over a year after the US...
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RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace
Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a...
F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again
The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire...
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place...
Italian Navy Wins the Gold for Patrol Vessels
ITS Giovanni Delle Bande Nere arrived in Faslane and came alongside at Garelochhead yesterday. Italian shipbuilding bookends just how ghastly and horrendous US Navy procurement is. In roughly the same time it took the US to fight over and fail to build the...
Working Class w/Batya Ungar-Sargon
Batya and I discuss the point off view of working class people. Alp
A Review of Sinners (2025)
This review contains spoilers for Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025). It is reprinted from Libertarian Institute editor Hunter DeRensis' Letterboxd. I never expected that I would be quoting Zora Neale Hurston in back-to-back film reviews, but her insights are too valuable...
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