US News A US grand jury indicts a Chinese billionaire for violating US tariffs. [Link] Facebook removes accounts that it says had ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ and run by the Saudi government. [Link] North Korea North Korea tests short-range missiles. Trump said...
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7/30/19 Tim Shorrock on the Democrats Attacking Trump from the Right
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Tim Shorrock joins the show to discuss U.S. negotiations with Korea and the status of the relations between North and South. Lately soldiers from the North and South have begun patrolling together, one of several important symbolic gestures in the process of...
Kim Tests Some Missiles
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 29, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #381, I discuss the status of talks between the US and North Korea. North Korea recently tested some missiles, and the never-Trumpers attempted to make a show of the tests. Trump downplayed the tests and said that he continues to hope for talks with North...
Trump on Twitter: The Good & Bad
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 10, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #373, I discuss how Trump has used Twitter to make threats and conduct diplomacy. Trump famously tweeted an invitation to Kim Jong-un to meet at the DMZ. The tweet led to a meeting of the two leaders and Trump being the first president to cross into North...
Trump Goes to North Korea, Reopens Talks
by Scott Horton | Jun 30, 2019 | Blog
Hey Trump!: we like it when you end wars. -The American voters
News Roundup 6/12/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 12, 2019 | News Roundup
US News The US formally request the UK extradite Julian Assange. [Link] The Trump administration calls for Saudi Arabia to show tangible progress into the investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. [Link] Senate Democrats and Republicans are working to block...
Korean Peace & African Instability
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 5, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #358, I discuss the effort to make a deal with North Korea and instability in some African countries. Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said he sees no reason to restart war games with South Korea. I explain this is a good sign that the US intends to...
News Roundup 5/7/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 7, 2019 | News Roundup
US News A St. Louis police officer has been charged with second-degree assault for shooting a woman instead of tasing her. [Link] Some Utah jails are charging over $11 for a 15-minute phone call. The high rate makes it difficult for prisoners to stay in contact with...
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Military Education and the Zampolit Parade Through the Institutions
The professional military education systems and the academies have been captured by the Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) zampolit cadres in a detailed and comprehensive way. In the military a zampolit is a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a...
Regime Apologists Continue to Insist the Carrier is Useful
They misspelled disposable. There is nothing hard to target about a very large ship traveling at very large ship speeds with very large wakes in the modern era by air breathing and non-air breathing detection assets. What this means is that all the carriers deployed...
The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon
The "mission capable rate" of these F35s is simply appalling. 23 years in and it still doesn't work. 23 years. And Congress won't kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper. The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine...
“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck…”
Hot garbage on the wing. The pursuit of US and Western air dominance is a pipe dream but a fever dream for the military industrial complex. The existential failure of this fighter program has been stunning to behold. The days of manned fighter aircraft are numbered in...
All Hail Homo Sovieticus Booboisie in America
Happy Dependence Day, Helots. The Declaration of Independence continues to be a masterwork of brevity and directness in its promise to sever ties and formalize a divorce. There is no sizable sector of America today that would even have the temerity to sign it much...
Unpossible! Another Fraud Complex Found in DoD Contractor
Another fraud incident with overcharging. Sikorsky is a Lockheed-Martin subsidiary. Sikorsky Support Services Inc., a helicopter manufacturer headquartered in Stratford, Conn., agreed to pay the federal government $70 million in a settlement alongside Wisconsin-based...
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