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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...

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

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

News Roundup 1/23/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 23, 2018 | Blog

Mehdi Hasan will release a series of shows on blowback. [Link] The US provocations in the South China Sea will lead to a Chinese military buildup. [Link] Pence says US embassy in Jerusalem to open by end of next year. [Link] The US switching the Afghan military to...

News Roundup 1/15/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog

A Pennsylvania court orders an Amish family to violate their religious beliefs and use electricity. [Link] James Bovard on why the charges against the Bundy family were dismissed. [Link] Ray McGovern explains how the Russiagate investigation is now exposing the deep...

2017 Review: Syria

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 26, 2017 | Blog

In the lead up to the 2016 election, Candidate Trump talked a somewhat sensible policy on Syria. He wanted to end the support of rebels, and he preferred Assad to the jihadists, he desired to work with the Russians to achieve the shared goal of “knocking the hell out...

News Roundup 12/11/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog

The Trump administration has made three moves against Saudi Crown Prince MbS in the past week. [Link] Max Blumenthal on Russiagate and the Flynn plea. [Link] House ethics panel finds evidence of intelligence agencies abusing spying programs. [Link] Body cam video...

News Roundup 11/27/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 27, 2017 | Blog

Google admits to de-ranking sites like RT. [Link] Moon of Alabama analysis. [Link] A man received a $15 million settlement form Baltimore City. He was wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years. [Link] Amazon is providing the US intelligence community with a web service to...

Foreign Policy Focus #122 – The Fall of ISIS with Will Porter

by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 24, 2017 | Conflicts of Interest

Will Porter returns to Foreign Policy Focus to cover the fall of ISIS. This episode is the second in a two-part series on the rise and fall of ISIS, the first show can be found here. In this part of the series, Will details how the US and Russia became involved in...

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If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…

Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza reject freedom for Palestinians and insist on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish supremacist state.

I Met a Man

Located nearly three hours drive from Adelaide, the property rested in the South-East. The nearest township a good thirty minutes if you pushed your vehicle over dirty unselaed road. It was a job that a mate threw my way, help out some old timers that he knew through...

UN Review: No Evidence UNRWA Staff Are Terrorists

The UN’s review on UNRWA’s neutrality notes that Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff members belong to terrorist organizations.

Joe Biden is Such a Liar

He lies about everything. This time it's his uncle Ambrose who was lost at sea during WWII. Genocide Joe lies that he was eaten by cannibals, smearing the people of Papua New Guinea, who fought as America's allies in that war.

John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon

COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is:...

Class versus Identity Politics?

Parts of the "left" and "right" often lament that class politics has given way to identity politics. I don't get that. Class was the original modern political identity, and state privilege was part of the cause. Libertarians and classical liberals long warned that...

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