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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Provoked: The Audiobook Chapter 2 Bill Clinton Part 2 Now Available
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War is the Health of the Stock Exchange
Some genius will be able to determine what percentage of Israeli "aid" packages essentially never leave the DC/VA corridor. That handout of taxpayer funds to Israel coupled with Israel’s, and global, demand increasing for weapons in a period of instability, has been...
Decent Fight Scene Outrages the Memers
The cancel culture mob is upset over a piece of media, this time it’s because a girl character in a television show based on a video game did something that they were OUTRAGED about. A fictional character was able to defeat a man in an unarmed struggle. Her being...
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Royal Navy Carrier Deployment: Failure is in the Cards
HMS Prince of Wales will lead Carrier Strike Group 25 on a deployment to the Pacific. The Prince of Wales has suffered many propulsion issues (it’s a non-nuclear carrier) and engineering casualties. Non-nuclear carrier operations in war in the 21st century rely on...
“The Bisexuals of Politics”
In a recent debate on the Joe Rogan Experience, between Douglas Murray and Dave Smith, Murray accused libertarians as being the “bisexuals of politics.” An interesting claim, one that assumes politics is in itself is a binary. Or that those in the ‘liberty’ spectrum,...
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