Download Episode. Gareth Porter returns to the show to mark episode 6,000. They start with a short discussion of Porter’s next book on the Cold War before diving into what’s happening in Gaza. They talk about Netanyahu’s propaganda strategy after October 7, the risk...
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Lawmakers Push Funding to Replace Weapons Used in Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 21, 2024 | News
As the White House has started an open-ended and unauthorized war in Yemen, some members of Congress are pushing for legislation that would provide funding to replace the munitions dropped on the Middle East’s poorest nation. Politico reports, “As American warships...
California Senator Says Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza Is ‘Dehumanizing Language’
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 18, 2024 | News
In an interview with the LA Times, Sen. Laphonza Butler said that it was “dehumanizing” to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The striking comments as Gaza has been turned into a humanitarian nightmare by an Israeli military campaign that has relied upon US support. The...

News Roundup 1/18/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 18, 2024 | News Roundup
US News OpenAI Cuts ‘Military and Warfare’ Ban From Permissible Use Policy AWC Biden White House Set Up Secrative Court to Oversee Privacy Rights Politico UK Defense Secretary: UK in Pre-War Phase With Several Nations AWC Ukraine Ukraine Ground Forces Commander Says...

To End the War in Ukraine, Expose Its Core Lie
by Ted Snider and Nicolai N. Petro | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The essential argument used to avoid negotiation and continue support for the war in Ukraine is based on a falsehood. That falsehood, repeated by President Joe Biden, is that when Vladimir Putin decided to invade, he intended to conquer all of Ukraine and “annihilate”...

Israel Buys Tech for Mass Influence Operations
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 17, 2024 | News
Israel has acquired systems that are designed to manage online discussions. Tel Aviv hopes the new technology can improve its sagging image, especially in the US. While Israel has been firmly backed by President Joe Biden, many of his supporters from 2020 are turning...
Taiwan’s Election, TSMC, and the Folly of Decoupling
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With Taiwan’s presidential election now concluded, and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai Ching-te having won a plurality due to the failure of the major opposition parties (the KMT and TPP) to combine behind one candidate, tensions in East...
US Launches More Strikes Against Houthis in Yemen as Escalations Continue
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 17, 2024 | News
CENTCOM says the strikes were launched early Tuesday The US military said Tuesday that it launched more strikes against the Houthis in Yemen as tensions in the region continue to escalate. US Central Command claimed that it hit Houthi anti-ship missiles. “At...
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Icebreaker Follies: The US Continues to Drive to Zero
The Navy did have 1.5 icebreakers and now they have half of one. Well, actually, the US has no operational icebreakers now. The Coast Guard’s other icebreaker, the ancient heavy Polar Star, is undergoing a service life extension program at the Mare Island Dry Dock in...
Boeing Incompetence Continues: The Space Launch System Debacle
We all know what is happening now with the Boeing disaster in space where two astronauts are marooned and the billion dollar taxicab is not only malfunctioning but can't be undocked without a human inside piloting the capsule away. Boeing was contracted by Never...
Anti-War Blog – Just a Meme of Their Time
So much to watch, to scroll past. To ignore. Apparently life is so busy, too much going on to care. The need to escape is paramount, to avoid reality. A reality many claim to be normal. Important even. A woman uses her degree to move about on the Olympic stage, elite...
Analysis of the ICJ’s Ruling that Israel’s Occupation Is Illegal
Scott Horton and I discuss the significance of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal.
Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
The Case for Not Voting
Bretigne Shaffer and I explain why, if you want to effect real change, the most sensible thing you can do is to not vote.
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