The Israel Defense Forces said that it was facing a shortage of functioning tanks and shells. The admission came in a court filing explaining why the IDF was not allowing female tank soldiers in Gaza. On Monday, the IDF informed the Israeli high court that many of...
Palestinians
Powerful Israeli Minister Calls on Netanyahu to Annex West Bank
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 16, 2024 | News
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take steps to “thwart” the creation of a Palestinian state, including annexing the West Bank. The hardline official wants to make a move in response to an expected World...
Netanyahu Reverses Key Israeli Concession Made in Ceasefire Negotiations
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 15, 2024 | News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed a key concession made by Israel during ceasefire negotiations, CNN reported Friday, citing an Israeli source familiar with the talks.
Independent UN Experts Slam Israel for Creating Famine in Gaza
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 9, 2024 | News
A group of ten independent experts studying the situation in Gaza declared that the Israeli military operations amount to genocide and have created a famine. Over the past nine months, Israel has destroyed most of the infrastructure in Gaza and only allowed a trickle...
News Roundup 7/8/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 8, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia Ukrainian Drone Injures Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Workers AWC Russia Steps Up Strikes on Ukrainian Airfields Ahead of F-16 Delivery AWC China Philippines Says US Will Pull Out Controversial Mid-Range Missile System AWC Israel Haaretz Confirms Israel...
News Roundup 7/3/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 3, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia Hungary’s Orban Visits Ukraine, Suggests Zelensky Consider a Ceasefire AWC Austin Says US Will Provide Ukraine With New $2.3 Billion Weapons Package AWC Israel Staffer Resigns, Says Working for Biden ‘Makes You Complicit in Genocide’ The Institute Israeli Nat...
Staffer Resigns, Says Working for Biden ‘Makes You Complicit in Genocide’
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 2, 2024 | News
Another US official has resigned from their post over President Joe Biden’s support for the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. A dozen members of the administration have publicly resigned in protest of the White House’s assistance to Tel Aviv and signed a letter blasting the...
Israel Creating ‘Dead Zone’ Along Lebanon Border
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 28, 2024 | News
Tel Aviv is attempting to destroy everything within three miles of the border The nearly nine-month-long war between Israel and Lebanon has prompted the Israel Defense Forces to destroy nearly everything along the Lebanese side of the border. The daily attacks are...
Blog
Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On
The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...
Blaming Freedom
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
Insurrection of the Mind.
Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...
They Know the Truth
Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...