President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled his planned summit with Kim Jong Un, scolding the North Korean leader in a letter for "tremendous anger and open hostility" while also bluntly reminding Kim of the United States' nuclear prowess. The scuttling of the...
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News Roundup 5/24/18
by Kyle Anzalone | May 24, 2018 | News Roundup
Amazon is providing facial recognition technology to police. [Link] A federal judge rules Trump cannot block people on Twitter. [Link] The US government operated a DC streetcar that cost $23 to move one passenger one mile. [Link] The Red Cross estimates 1,200...
FPF #197 – Libyan Style
by Kyle Anzalone | May 23, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #197, I discuss John Bolton's plan for North Korea to undergo Libyan style denuclearization. In December 2003 Libya quickly gave up a nuclear weapons program. In 2011, NATO, led by the US, went to war with Libya. The war was based on myths pushed by Hillary...
FPF #195 – New Offensives in Afghanistan & Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | May 18, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #195, I discuss new offensives in Afghanistan and Yemen. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have begun their Spring Offensive. The Taliban killed over 100 Afghan soldiers in a week and seized two district headquarters. In Yemen, Saudi backed forces started an...
5/11/18 John Feffer on Trump's diplomatic approach to North Korea
by Scott Horton | May 11, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Editor of FPIF.org John Feffer returns to the show to discuss his latest articles "A Nobel For Donald Trump Over Korea?" and "The Banality of Haspel." Feffer begins by explaining why, even if Trump negotiates peace in the Korean Peninsula he would not be deserving of...
NYT Examines How History Impacts Korean Talks–but Its Own Memory Is Fuzzy
by Jim Naureckas | May 6, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a New York Times news analysis (4/29/18) examining how the overthrow of Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi after he agreed to halt his nuclear program might influence North Korean thinking about disarmament, the Times’ Peter Baker writes that “President Barack Obama and...
4/27/18 Tim Shorrock on the Latest Developments on the Korean Peninsula
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Tim Shorrock returns to the show to discuss the encouraging developments on the Korean peninsula and the prospects for peace. Scott also takes the opportunity to give a brief history lesson on how the situation with North Korea got to this point (spoiler: it was...
News Roundup 4/20/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 20, 2018 | News Roundup
Mattis and Bolton have differing views on US foreign policy. [Link] Lockheed Martin wins a $928 million contract to build hypersonic weapons. [Link] Miguel Diaz-Camel will be the next leader of Cuba. [Link] South Korean President Moon says North Korea is looking to...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Nick Cleveland-Stout on Making Big Money on War: Polymarket and Think Tanks
What happens when war becomes a market and foreign policy turns into an odds board? We dive into the uneasy world of prediction platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi, where traders place bets on battlefield maps, covert raids, and even the exact words politicians will...
Maps Don’t Lie
The Greenland drama is amusing but reality about the players is rather sobering. A casual look at Russia's habitual military presence in the Arctic for generations dispels any illusion. Europe is presently making lots of noise in a scheduled exercise in Greenland to...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: From ICE To “I Seized Your Oil”
A young woman lies dead on a Minneapolis street, an ICE officer pulled the trigger, and the official story leans on power instead of necessity. We open with what the footage actually shows, why the shot trajectory matters, and how a federal investigation shifts...
War 101: A Cautionary Tale
Dear NATO and EU/SSR, Keep this in the back of your mind in your salons and conference rooms in Brussels: “Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.” Frederick the Great
The Answer to Government Fraud
Occam's Razor provides the easiest answer to the "day care" fraud splashed across the media: NO government subsidy whatsoever. Then when you discover fraud in other government programs you do the same, eventually the fraud is reduced. Simple, elegant and logical
The NATO Midgets Threaten a NATO Member (Again)
Yes! NATO members are actively planning a military confrontation with US forces in the event of a Greenland operation. I am indifferent to adding Greenland to US territories. This isn't without historical precedent. Greece and Turkey have nearly come to blows on...
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