Patrick Osgood, Kurdistan Bureau Chief for IraqOilReport.com, discusses the referendum on Kurdish independence, battling ISIS in Mosul and beyond, the impact of low oil prices on Iraq's economy, and whether Iraq can become a cohesive functioning state without a...
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News Roundup 3/31/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
Flynn offers to testify about the Trump campaign connections to Russia in exchange for immunity. [Link] Trump has given the military power to conduct offensive counterterrorism strikes against al-Shabaab in Somalia. Previously, the US was only about to conduct strikes...
News Roundup 3/30/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
Seattle is suing the federal government for threatening to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities. [Link] A longtime State Department employee has been charged with lying to the FBI about gifts she received from China. [Link] States that have legalized medical...
US Commander: US Airstrike ‘Probably’ Behind Mosul Civilian Death Toll
by Jason Ditz | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Says Bombs Should Not Have Collapsed the Buildings On March 17, US airstrikes against the city of Mosul leveled multiple buildings, killing in excess of 200 people, by most estimates. The Pentagon had long been very evasive about the incident so far, confirming they’d...
News Roundup 3/28/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Jeff Sessions announced that he will look to strip funding from sanctuary cities. [Link] The US is boycotting nuclear disarmament talks taking place at the UN. [Link] US soldiers in Mosul have started to wear black uniforms to look more like Iraqi counterterrorism...
News Roundup 3/27/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
Trump gave Merkel a $375 billion bill that he printed out himself. The bill was for defense services NATO provided to Germany. [Link] The US is investigating multiple airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. Those airstrikes killed a total of nearly 300 civilians. Of course, it...
News Roundup 3/26/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 26, 2017 | Blog
Trump issues the permit to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. [Link] FBI agents posed as documentary filmmakers during the Bundy Ranch Standoff to talk with protesters supporting the Bundy family. The FBI is now using those interviews in court to prove the guilt of...
News Roundup 3/24/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog
Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, Alexander Acosta, was a district attorney in Miami and gave a very lenient plea deal to Jeffery Epstein. Under the plea deal, Epstein was given 13 months in prison but was allowed to work from home during the day. Epstein was...
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Radar Follies: The Delicate Golden Thread
What happens when billions of dollars of Western radars are shattered and decimated? Once fire direction can’t translate & collate Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) inputs to operable cueing and precise targeting for munitions, efficacy of fires...
Rules for Radicals, The Purpose w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on the old revolutionary text, Rule for Radicals.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Signals of War? US Evacuates Embassy in Israel, Trump Unhappy with Iran
Sirens don’t always sound before a war—sometimes the warning is a bland memo telling diplomats to pack. We open with the U.S. pullback of non‑emergency staff from Israel and track how similar moves in Lebanon and likely elsewhere signal more than routine caution. From...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Americans Don’t Want War with Iran – US Officials Have a New Plan to Manipulate Them
A quiet leak says the loud part: some senior voices in Washington think the politics “work better” if Israel strikes Iran first. Not because it changes the threat. Because it changes the story Americans hear. We pull that thread and walk through the actual mechanics...
Anti-War Blog – The War Cycle
The special alliance of Israel and the United States have attacked Iran, again. How severe and protracted this war shall become, we do not know. The lapdogs of empire likely will support their masters, the usual coalition such as America’s Ghurkas, or Australia, what...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Dave DeCamp: BREAKING: Tucker Carlson detained in ISRAEL! – Trump’s Iran Strategy Exposed!
A journalist gets detained. Carriers surge toward the Gulf. Politicians talk in slogans while the facts stay fuzzy. We connect these threads to show how U.S. power, Israeli interests, and media narratives are steering Washington toward a dangerous collision with Iran...
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