Great Power Biden’s 2022 Pentagon budget calls for fewer bombs that are typically used in the Middle East and more munitions to target China. [Link] Russia says it is revoking the 1992 “open lands” accord with the US in response to the US expelling Russian diplomats....
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News Roundup 5/12/21
by Kyle Anzalone | May 12, 2021 | News Roundup
Afghanistan Pakistan rules out allowing the US to reposition forces from Afghanistan in Pakistan. [Link] CENTCOM reports that withdrawal from Afghanistan is 6-12% complete. [Link] Israel Israel vows escalation in Gaza. So far 35 people in Gaza and five in Israel have...
Israel Vows Further Escalation in Bombing of Gaza
by Dave DeCamp | May 12, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Israel continued its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip through Tuesday and into Wednesday morning as the death toll continues to mount. Gaza’s health ministry said early Wednesday that so far, at least 35 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes,...
COI #102 – The Israeli and American Police States Are Out of Control
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 28, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #102, Kyle discusses the rampant police abuse by American and Israeli security forces. In the US, a police officer dislocated an elderly woman's arm, then was recording laughing about it. Another officer shot a man ten times after he mistook a phone for a gun,...
News Roundup 3/30/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 30, 2021 | News Roundup
US News An elderly man's home was raided by police, looking for a man who wasn’t there. During the raid, police beat the man in front of his great-granddaughter. [Link] The US is planning massive war games to simulate conflict with Russia and China. [Link] Biden says...
Officers Mistake Fellow Cop for Protestor, ‘Beat Him Like Rodney King’
by Matt Agorist | Mar 18, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The trial for three St. Louis cops who beat one of their own officers during an undercover operation begins this week, hoping to bring justice to several badge-toting thugs. The three officers in question—Dustin Boone, Steven Korte, and Christopher Myers—were part of...
Don’t Start A Domestic Terror War, Impeach Trump For War Crimes In Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 13, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
Connor Freeman, writer at The Libertarian Institute, returns to the show to discuss the Trump administration's decision to name the Houthi a terrorist organization. The Houthi govern most of Yemen's population. The designation will make it extremely difficult to bring...
Andrew Cockburn: Blips On The Screen
by Steven Woskow | Nov 27, 2020 | Blog
What is the point of having this superb military if you can't use it? The record of this year’s wars shows that although these weapons may not provide a decisive edge in combat they excel in self-advertisement, projecting an image of all-seeing omnipotence. Drones...
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The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse
Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
History and Conflict
"We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long since dead and by searching the archives for pretexts for new conflicts. We do not have to revenge crimes committed centuries ago by...
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