Tom Perez was elected to chair the Democratic Party. Perez served in the Obama Administration. [Link] A Philippines Senator who opposes the president's war on drugs has been arrested and accused of violating the drug laws. The Senator's arrest seems to be an...
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News Roundup 2/24/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Private prison companies donated over $100 million to Trump for his election and inauguration. These companies will now profit from Trump's immigration policy. [Link] Jeff Sessions removes an Obama directive that ordered the Department of Justice to move away from...
News Roundup 2/23/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog
The ATF ran an illegal cigarette smuggling operation to raise millions of dollars in funding for undercover operations. The ATF is now being sued by a group of tobacco growers. [Link] New Hampshire passes a Constitutional Carry law. This will allow citizens to...
News Roundup 2/22/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
The Department of Homeland Security issued orders to immigration enforcement agents to work to deport illegal immigrants. The spokesperson for DHS said that those with criminal records will be prioritized. Those who were granted protected under Obama's DACA program...
News Roundup 2/21/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog
Trump picks H.R. McMaster to replace Flynn as National Security Advisor. [Link] Immigration enforcement agents are posing as local police officers to get information about people they suspect to be illegal immigrants. [Link] 74 bodies have washed ashore in Libya. It...
News Roundup 2/20/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
Scott Pruitt has been confirmed to head the EPA. Pruitt is currently suing the EPA as Oklahoma's Attorney General. [Link] An Arizona sheriff overturns a rule put in place by his predecessor, Joe Arpaio, that allows immigrants to be detained for over the maximum...
2/8/17 Joe Lauria on the battle for Mosul against the Islamic State in Iraq
by Scott Horton | Feb 8, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria, an independent international affairs journalist, discusses the Iraqi army's long struggle to finally retake eastern Mosul from the Islamic State; the very difficult upcoming battle for the remainder of the city; the fate of Mosul's internally displaced...
News Roundup 2/6/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
The Trump Administration is walking back its plans to reopen CIA black sites. [Link] The US military underreports the number of airstrikes it conducts by the thousands. [Link] The US has agreed to a $8.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martian to buy 90 F-35As. The cost is...
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What’s Happening w/Buck Johnson
Buck joined me to discuss fentanyl, drug addiction, boomer cons, media treatment of Trump, and what is going right and wrong in the Trump administration. ALP
100 Memers vs One Pamela Anderson
The social media feed gruel has switched it’s serving of slop from the speculation about the potential outcome of one hundred men versus a gorilla. The content creators who recycle the same shit, because of algorithms and trends now concern themselves with the...
Anti-War Blog – Too Thirsty to Cry
In the photo essay, Ethiopia : The Scorched Earth, Mary Anne Fitzgerald writes in the caption beneath a photo of a young girl crying, “Tears of hunger are a good sign. During the final stages of malnutrition children are too weak to cry.” There was Live Aid and U.S.A....
RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace
Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a...
F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again
The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire...
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place...
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