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There is No FSA, There is Only Al-Qaeda

by William Van Wagenen | Dec 27, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

A brief overview of collaboration between the US-backed Free Syrian Army and al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front. Among Syria commentators in the West, both left and mainstream, it is commonly claimed that the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad has attempted to...

2017 Review: Syria

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 26, 2017 | Blog

In the lead up to the 2016 election, Candidate Trump talked a somewhat sensible policy on Syria. He wanted to end the support of rebels, and he preferred Assad to the jihadists, he desired to work with the Russians to achieve the shared goal of “knocking the hell out...

Foreign Policy Focus #122 – The Fall of ISIS with Will Porter

by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 24, 2017 | Conflicts of Interest

Will Porter returns to Foreign Policy Focus to cover the fall of ISIS. This episode is the second in a two-part series on the rise and fall of ISIS, the first show can be found here. In this part of the series, Will details how the US and Russia became involved in...

News Roundup 10/17/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog

Hillary Clinton said Julian Assange worked for Russia during the 2016 election. Hillary blamed Assange, in part, for her loss. [Link] A federal judge ruled police can seize your fingerprints to unlock devices that require fingerprints. [Link] A Florida man was...

10/2/17 Airwars' Chris Woods on the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria

by Damon Hatheway | Oct 2, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Airwars investigative reporter Chris Woods returns to the show to discuss his work documenting aerial strikes and casualties in Iraq, Syria, and now Libya. Woods explains Airwars' method of documentation, discusses how Trump's strategy compares to Obama's, and breaks...

10/2/17 Airwars’ Chris Woods on the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria

by Damon Hatheway | Oct 2, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

9/21/17 Joe Lauria on the 2016 U.S. election and the upcoming Iraqi Kurdish referendum

by Damon Hatheway | Sep 21, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Joe Lauria returns to the show to discuss his book on Hillary Clinton, "How I Lost By Hillary Clinton," Trump's America, and the hysteria over Russia's supposed actions in the 2016 elections. Then Lauria pivots to the Kurdish referendum in Iraq and gives an overview...

News Roundup 9/14/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 14, 2017 | Blog

The Department of Justice announced it would not prosecute six police officers involved in the death of Freddy Gray. [Link] The US army has moved two tank brigades to northern Poland. The US says it is responding to concerns about Russia war games. [Link] Defense...

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Wheels Within Wheels: Complexity is Real in War

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras...

F35 Fat Amy Follies: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth)....

New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform

With a resounding "Aye," Defend the Guard was made an official part of the New Hampshire Republican Party platform. On Saturday, April 13, the New Hampshire GOP held a meeting to vote on platform amendments. Among the list of proposals was the following text: "Demand...

USC Bows Down to Pro-Israel Terrorists, Cancels Muslim-American’s Valedictorian Speech

No one hates Americans' sacred right of free speech more than Israel's American fifth column. No one is a bigger group of cowards than the USC Trojans. Always have been a bunch of sniveling little weaklings.

A War of Unyielding Horror

That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.

Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom

The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...

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