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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Taliban Defeats Five American Presidents
GEN McChrystal was a martial disaster. What wrong looks like… This is what happens when your architects fall in love with their processes so much they forget about the objective. Military students should really study why graduate-level white papers, PowerPoint slides,...
Understanding the Nativist new-Right
There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the...
Rules for Radicals: Of Means and Ends
John and I continue reading and commentary of Rules for Radicals.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Tulsi Breaks Her Silence Says YES, WAR WITH IRAN! JOE KENT RESIGNS Say Iran NO THREAT
Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over the Iran war, becoming the first senior official to break ranks. In his resignation, Kent stated bluntly that Iran posed no “imminent threat” to the United States — directly...
The Sun Always Sets on the Royal Navy
One of four SLBMs are operational. One of two carriers is operational. Two of seven destroyers are operational. On and on. The Argentinians need to make a deal with Iran for oil, to keep the British busy in the Maldives; then they'll finally have the islands. Luxury...
Iran Scorecard: The Fight Continues
2 F-35 stealth fighters hit 4 F-15 Strike Eagles lost 7 KC-135 Stratotankers damaged (one lost) All of those aircraft are a big maybe; fratricide, friendly fire, we don’t know yet. To be fair, let’s suppose not a single aircraft suffered Iranian fire but 11 Reapers...
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