On 19 August, 2014, ISIS released a video of the beheading of American journalist James Foley who was kidnapped by the terrorist organization in 2012 while reporting on the conflict in Syria. Foley’s shocking execution became one of the most widely followed news...
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News Roundup 11/8/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 8, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The US and Canada sanctioned the head of the Haitian Senate over alleged ties to drugs and gangs. Reuters The State Department offered three separate one million bounties for men accused of being Haitian gang leaders. Press Release Bill LaPlante, the...
Saad Hariri and the Collapse of Lebanon
by William Van Wagenen | Sep 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2005, U.S. neoconservatives centered around then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s office began collaborating with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, defected former Syrian Vice President Abd Al-Halim Khaddam, and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood to topple the Syrian...
For 18 Months, as ISIS Advanced, the U.S. Did Nothing to Stop Them
by William Van Wagenen | Sep 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2017, U.S. and allied Kurdish forces bombarded the city of Raqqa, the bastion of ISIS in Syria and the de-facto capital of the terror group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Concurrent to this, U.S. forces conducted massive air strikes on the Iraqi city of Mosul, to...
Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?
by William Van Wagenen | Aug 3, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the mainstream view, the armed groups fighting the Syrian government since 2011, collectively known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), were part of a Syrian revolution that represented the Syrian people. At the same time, the Syrian government, or Assad regime,...
News Roundup 6/21/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 20, 2022 | News Roundup
US News President Joe Biden said he is considering a temporary gas tax holiday. The tax reduction would cut gas prices by 18.4 cents per gallon. [Link] Biden said rebate cards are also being considered. [Link] Miami police were offering $50 for handguns, $100 for...
Ambassador Ford Lied About Giving TOW Missiles to Al-Qaeda in Syria
by William Van Wagenen | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In September 2017, U.S. official Brett McGurk expressed concern that Syria’s northwest Idlib province had become “the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11.” Idlib had fallen to al-Qaeda, in the form of a jihadist coalition led by the group’s Syrian affiliate, the...
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
News Roundup 9/24/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 24, 2020 | News Roundup
US News A grand jury charged one of the three police officers involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor. The officer was charged for wanton endangerment for firing into Taylor’s neighbor’s apartment. [Link] Kentucky’s governor announces the National Guard will enter...
News Roundup 12/27/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 27, 2019 | News Roundup
Latin America Riots in a Honduran prison leave 18 dead. [Link] A military facility in Venezuela was raided. One soldier was killed in the attack. The Venezuelan government claims to have captured the assailants and recovered the weapons. [Link] Ukraine/Russia Ukraine...
The 2020 NDAA: A Rubber Stamp for War
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act is a monster that could only have been birthed by a conference committee deep in the DC swamp. The 2020 version of the annual Department of Defense funding bill provides $738 billion to the Pentagon, a $30 billion increase...
News Roundup 12/11/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 11, 2019 | News Roundup
US News As Chicago and New York police officers cut back on proactive policing, the crime rate fell. [Link] The number of substantiated claims of sexual and personal misconduct in the Army increased over the past year. [Link] At a private fundraising dinner in...
8/19/19 Trevor Aaronson on the Case of Hamid Hayat
by Scott Horton | Aug 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
The Intercept's Trevor Aaronson joins the show to talk about the travesty of justice in the trial of Hamid Hayat, who has finally been released after nearly 15 years in prison. Hayat was an alleged terrorist, convicted based on a coerced confession he gave to FBI...
5/10/19 Chris Woods on the Civilian Casualties in Raqqa from US-led Airstrikes
by Scott Horton | May 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Airwars' Chris Woods joins the show to discuss the recent findings that coalition airstrikes recently killed over a thousand civilians in Raqqa. The UN also estimates that although most residents were able to escape the city, 70% lost all their property in the...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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