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News Roundup 7/12/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 12, 2017 | Blog

Donald Trump Jr. Tweeted copies of several emails expressing his desire to meet with a Russian lawyer in hopes of getting information on Hillary Clinton. The emails say the Russian lawyer had information from the Russian government to pass to Trump Jr. [Link] The...

News Roundup 7/11/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog

The Third Circut Court of Appeals has ruled that filming police is a right protected by the First Amendment. [Link] A man accused of plotting a terror attack claims the FBI entrapped him. The man accused says FBI informants pushed him to buy machine guns. [Link] The...

The Forgotten Fallen

by Kym Robinson | Jul 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The national ritual of observing the fallen war fighters for Australia passed in April, it is a time when the living gives thanks for the sacrifices of those who died in the servitude of nation during times of war. It is a period where most Australians and New...

News Roundup 7/10/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog

A judge declared a mistrial in a trial for an Oklahoma police officer who killed his daughter's boyfriend. The officer claims the boyfriend was armed, but no weapon was found. [Link] A judge ordered Kevin Mallory be held without bond. Mallory is accused of selling...

7/1/17 Joe Lauria on the approaching defeat of ISIS in Mosul

by Damon Hatheway | Jul 9, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Joe Lauria returns to the show to discuss the battle for Mosul, and the degree to which the Iraqi army has defeated the Islamic State. Lauria details the awful destruction of the war: thousands of civilians have been killed, and at least 850,000 people have fled since...

News Roundup 7/8/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 8, 2017 | Blog

Trump met with Putin for the first time. The meeting was scheduled for 30 minutes but lasted over two hours. Trump and Putin spoke about allegations that Russia hacked the US election, Syria, Ukraine, and North Korea. [Link] Tillerson and Russia's Foreign Minister...

News Roundup 7/7/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 7, 2017 | Blog

In 2015, 15% of men aged 21-30 did not work. This is double the number of young men who did not work in 2000. [Link] An Amish farmer has been sentenced to six years in prison for selling herbal health products in defiance of the FDA. [Link] Los Angeles is planning to...

Yes, Aleppo was Liberated

by William Van Wagenen | Jul 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

As the Syrian government and its Russian allies conducted a campaign to re-capture the northern Syrian city of Aleppo from U.S.-backed rebel groups in December of 2016, Western media outlets gave the impression that the Russian air force was mercilessly bombing...

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Charlie, Iryna, and MMA

My boy Kym is back to discuss the news and MMA.

Violence Did Not Silence the Voice of Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk’s last word was “violence,” but his last act, before an act of violence took his life, was an act of non-violence: the act of speaking that word. He died doing what he did all his brief adult life: working to persuade others through peaceful, yet...

Anti-War Blog – “Never Again”

“Never again.” Those words were spoken in the wake of the second world war, the revelation and realisation that a sophisticated, educated and civilsed nation of people could commit atrocities of such a scale. Not merely a genocide, a regime of torture, slavery and...

The F35 Follies: The Grift Keeps on Giving

I took months off to work on other projects and catch up on other business. I'm back. The F35 continues to be the gift that keeps on grifting. The F35B and C models are the Marine Corps Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing (STOVL) and US Navy aircraft respectively. Both the...

Trucking w/Gord

Gord is back to discuss the problems being exposed in the trucking industry.

Capitalism Civilizes

"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many...

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