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...
Mosul
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...
Blog
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Larry Johnson: Iran Has Washington Exactly Where It Wants Them
The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of geopolitical pressure point that can turn a regional fight into a worldwide economic shock, and the official story coming out of Washington doesn’t always match what markets and missiles are signaling. We sit down with Larry Johnson...
Blackadder Was Ahead of His Time: The UK Military Death Spiral
"Tomorrow we attack the Germans" "Let me guess Sir, we climb out of our trenches and do a frontal assault" "Damn it, Blackadder, that's supposed to be a secret" "We've tried it 17 times before and always failed" "Ah, but they will never expect it an 18th time!" ***...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Darryl Cooper: Khamenei Martyred, Iran in Chaos — What the West Isn’t Telling You
Air defense looks clean on a diagram. In real war, it is messy, conditional, and expensive in ways most people never see until the alarms are late and the interceptors are flying in bunches. We sit down with Daryl Cooper to translate the jargon and show what “layered...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Matt Hoh: The Iraq War Playbook Is Back — This Time for Iran
They’re dragging a disproved Iraq War storyline out of storage to sell a new war with Iran, and it matters because it’s the kind of myth that can get people killed. We sit down with Captain Matt Ho to dissect the EFP hoax: what explosively formed penetrators were, how...
The Age of Revelation, a Conversation w/Buck Johnson
I invited Buck Johnson of Counterflow on to have a nice relaxing conversation about things revealed and how it plays into our daily lives and worldview.
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Harrison Berger: Will Trump Draft Americans for Israel’s War in Iran? Did Iran Try To Kill Trump?
A headline-friendly story says Iran tried to assassinate Donald Trump. We pull the threads and find a different picture: an FBI-driven sting targeting Asif Merchant, two undercover “hitmen,” no money to fund the job, and no credible evidence that Tehran ordered...
Podcasts
Shop Our Books
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.