US News Two million Ellume at home Covid tests have been recalled for giving false positives. [Link] Delaware police killed an 8-year-old girl. The District Attorney has charged two teens, who did not shoot the girl, with her murder. [Link] The Department of Justice...
Pentagon
News Roundup 11/8/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 8, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin a $10.9 billion contract to modernize the F-22. [Link] Secretary of State Antony Blinken appoints two officials - Jonathan Moore and Margret Uyehara - to head the ‘Havana Syndrome’ task force. [Link] The US is planning more...
Joe Biden Approves $650 Million Missile Sale to Saudi Arabia
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Pentagon announced Thursday that the State Department approved a potential sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia worth about $650 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said Saudi Arabia requested a purchase of 280 AIM-120C air-to-air missiles, 596...
News Roundup 11/4/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 4, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The Biden administration is preparing to require that all businesses with over 100 employees require vaccination or weekly testing. Companies that fail to comply will be fined $14,000 per employee. [Link] China The Pentagon believes China could have 1,000...
News Roundup 11/2/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 2, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The TSA is ordered to pay more than $100 million in a patent infringement suit over the bins used during security checks. [Link] A US judge throws out most of the charges against Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. [Link] Great Power The Washington Post reported...
Taiwan Confirms Deployment of U.S. Troops to Their Island
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In an interview with CNN that aired Wednesday, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen confirmed reports that said US troops are in Taiwan training the island’s military. The confirmation is the first time since Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979...
Double Standard Drones
by J. W. Rich | Oct 20, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On August 29, 2021, the U.S. forces in Afghanistan conducted an airstrike against an ISIS-K leader in Kabul. Tensions had been running high throughout the city, as just several days ago a deadly terrorist attack was carried out that killed over 70 people, including...
News Roundup 10/18/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 18, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is dead. [Link] Ameal Woods was driving in Texas to buy a new semi-truck when he was pulled over. Without changing him, the police seized the $40,000 in cash he was carrying to buy a new truck. Two years later, the police...
Blog
The Spirit Dissolves: Imminent B2 Retirement
Stealth is a buzzword, please keep in mind that long wave radars detects the minuscule radar cross sections of "stealth" platforms. It can still be detected by a sufficiently powerful radar or at sufficiently close ranges. Dual-band radars are more effective against...
Icebreaker Follies: The US Continues to Drive to Zero
The Navy did have 1.5 icebreakers and now they have half of one. Well, actually, the US has no operational icebreakers now. The Coast Guard’s other icebreaker, the ancient heavy Polar Star, is undergoing a service life extension program at the Mare Island Dry Dock in...
Boeing Incompetence Continues: The Space Launch System Debacle
We all know what is happening now with the Boeing disaster in space where two astronauts are marooned and the billion dollar taxicab is not only malfunctioning but can't be undocked without a human inside piloting the capsule away. Boeing was contracted by Never...
Anti-War Blog – Just a Meme of Their Time
So much to watch, to scroll past. To ignore. Apparently life is so busy, too much going on to care. The need to escape is paramount, to avoid reality. A reality many claim to be normal. Important even. A woman uses her degree to move about on the Olympic stage, elite...
Analysis of the ICJ’s Ruling that Israel’s Occupation Is Illegal
Scott Horton and I discuss the significance of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal.
Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
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