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Trump warns Kim about ‘massive and powerful’ U.S. nukes

by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

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...

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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Iran Scorecard: The Fight Continues

2 F-35 stealth fighters hit 4 F-15 Strike Eagles lost 7 KC-135 Stratotankers damaged (one lost) All of those aircraft are a big maybe; fratricide, friendly fire, we don’t know yet. To be fair, let’s suppose not a single aircraft suffered Iranian fire but 11 Reapers...

The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Larry Johnson: Iran Has Washington Exactly Where It Wants Them

The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of geopolitical pressure point that can turn a regional fight into a worldwide economic shock, and the official story coming out of Washington doesn’t always match what markets and missiles are signaling. We sit down with Larry Johnson...

Blackadder Was Ahead of His Time: The UK Military Death Spiral

"Tomorrow we attack the Germans" "Let me guess Sir, we climb out of our trenches and do a frontal assault" "Damn it, Blackadder, that's supposed to be a secret" "We've tried it 17 times before and always failed" "Ah, but they will never expect it an 18th time!" ***...

The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Darryl Cooper: Khamenei Martyred, Iran in Chaos — What the West Isn’t Telling You

Air defense looks clean on a diagram. In real war, it is messy, conditional, and expensive in ways most people never see until the alarms are late and the interceptors are flying in bunches. We sit down with Daryl Cooper to translate the jargon and show what “layered...

The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Matt Hoh: The Iraq War Playbook Is Back — This Time for Iran

They’re dragging a disproved Iraq War storyline out of storage to sell a new war with Iran, and it matters because it’s the kind of myth that can get people killed. We sit down with Captain Matt Ho to dissect the EFP hoax: what explosively formed penetrators were, how...