Democratic Senator Robert Menendez loses an appeal to the Supreme Court, and he will face bribery charges. Menendez is accused of accepting bribes from an ophthalmologist, then protecting the ophthalmologist from a $8.9 million Medicare dispute. [Link] Electronic...
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US Launching Soaring Number of Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq, Syria
by Jason Ditz | Mar 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over 7,000 Strikes Carried Out in Just the Last Two Months With the fighting against ISIS increasingly confined to densely populated cities like Mosul and Raqqa, the US air war against them continues to escalate precipitously, with record numbers of airstrikes in...
News Roundup 3/18/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 18, 2017 | Blog
This article explains the differences in Western media coverage of the battle for Aleppo and the battle for Mosul. [Link] A police officer who murdered a man will not face civil litigation for murdering the man. The 11th Circuit Court granted the officer qualified...
News Roundup 3/17/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog
Trump picks a Boeing executive, Patrick Shanahan, to become deputy US defense secretary. [Link] Trump is asking Congress to pass an immediate $30 billion in additional spending for the Pentagon. $5 billion is for the Pentagon to use in its war against ISIS. The...
3/15/17 Eric Margolis on Trump’s “Levantine Madness” – war escalation and deployment of US forces all over the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Mar 15, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, a war correspondent and author of American Raj, discusses the US-backed motley crew fighting for full control of Mosul against the Islamic State - which never would have gained a foothold if Saddam Hussein or his sons still led Iraq; new US escalation...
News Roundup 3/14/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog
The White House has ordered the State Department to look for up to a 50% cut to the funding the US gives to the UN. The US currently spends $10 billion to fund the UN each year. [Link] Seema Verma has been approved by the Senate to head the Center for Medicare and...
News Roundup 3/13/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog
The Trump Administration is looking to loosen counterterrorism rules that are intended to prevent civilian casualties. The administration may also declare some regions to be "areas of active hostilities." These moves will allow the military to carry out raids and...
Trump Sends the Marines to Syria
by Scott Horton | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog
Haven't I told you for the last year or more he was going to send the Marines to eastern Syria? I admit I thought he's send 'em to Mosul first, but I guess the special ops guys have got that handled -- for now. Well now he's sent Marine artillery and infantry too. Now...
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Defund Government Money to Think Tanks That Don’t Think
A 2022 document. In service of the green agenda, the RANDians have lost their minds...again. Stop funding the RAND Corporation; zero out all government funding to it. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA1500/RRA1524-2/RAND_RRA1524-2.pdf My...
Labor as Commodity
For the individual actor, "as for everyone, other people’s labor as offered for sale on the market is nothing but a factor of production. Man deals with other people’s labor in the same way that he deals with all scarce material factors of production. He appraises it...
WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast Debuts Soon
I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in...
Failing Upward: PR Stunt Backfires
The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos...
Why We Need to End the Federal Reserve System
A new short documentary from the Mises Institute explains how the Federal Reserve system enslaves us all.
The Shame of Veterans Day
A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the...
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