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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...

US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa ‘Most Destroyed City in Modern Times’: Study

by Steven Woskow | Apr 28, 2019 | Blog

Julia Conley at Common Dreams reviews the results from a study conducted by Amnesty International and Airwars. The report—"Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the 'Most Precise Air Campaign in History' Left Raqqa the Most Destroyed City in Modern Times"—is detailed on...

8/10/18 Oliver Imhof on Civilian Casualties in Iraq

by Scott Horton | Aug 13, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Airwars reporter Oliver Imhof joins Scott to talk about all the Iraqi casualties from coalition drone bombing and artillery strikes. Because of the difficulty and danger involved in getting into these war zones, the numbers are hard to verify, but almost certainly...

US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'

by Patrick Cockburn | Jun 7, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Air and artillery strikes by the US and its allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa, according to an Amnesty International report. It contradicts claims by the US, along with Britain and France, that they precisely...

4/27/18 Samuel Oakford on the Atrocities Committed in Mosul and Raqqa

by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Airwars reporter Sam Oakford returns to the show to discuss his latest work, "Raqqa: A City Destroyed Then Forgotten" and "They're Still Pulling Bodies out of ISIS' capital." Scott begins by asking—what do we know about Mosul and the coalition assault to take the city...

News Roundup 3/15/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog

Rand Paul will oppose the nomination of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel. [Link] Larry Kudlow will be Trump's new top economic advisor. [Link] Congress rejected a Right to Try bill. [Link] Oklahoma will start using nitrogen gas in executions. [Link] Google will ban ads...

News Roundup 2/13/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog

An Oklahoma judge gave a woman a lenient jail sentence because she sterilized herself. [Link] Trump introduces a $4.4 trillion budget. The budget includes a $1.4 trillion in infrastructure spending. [Link] Trump also plans to expand the US nuclear weapons arsenal....

How the Pentagon Enlisted Trump to Continue Its Perpetual “War on Terror”

by Gareth Porter | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The speech by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on January 17 laying out a series of conditions that would make it possible to withdraw US troops from Syria confirmed what had already been revealed by the Pentagon itself: The Trump administration is planning to keep US...

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A Warhead That Could: The Extinction Event for Exquisite Military Platforms

Chalk up another crafty Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) to the Russian military. I am hoping the West has noticed the game changer that a conventional warhead on hyper-sonic IRBMs and ICBMs has changed the balance of power in near peer and peer combat for the...

Economics Is about Individual Choice

"The light which the economic theorist can throw on an economic process, or on the outcome of such a process, is viewed as deriving from his ability to relate back the process to the individual acts of choice of which the process is made up. Through the theorist’s...

New WarNotes Podcast Episode is Live Monday 16 December 2024

Ep 005 "Fixing Fight Club: 21st Century Nuclear Renaissance" In this episode, a complete reassessment of American nuclear weapons has to be done. In the future near-peer and peer fight, nuclear weapons will be an option in the 21st century and no one can predict how...

How Far We’ve Come

"The conditions under which modern man of the capitalist West must act are different from those under which his primitive ancestors lived and acted. As a result of the providential care of our forebears we have at our disposal an ample stock of intermediate products...

The Vulnerable Capitalist

"Popular literature attributes enormous 'power' to the capitalist and considers his owning a mass of capital goods as of enormous significance, giving him a great advantage over other people in the economy. We see, however, that this is far from the case; indeed, the...

Winter is Coming to an American City Near You

It is much worse than Shawn Ryan thinks per his reactions during the interview. Sarah Adams discusses a forecast of an attack on the US from 1:12:00 to 1:25:00. There will be far more than 1k fighters (think train the trainer) because the aQ et al planners will...

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