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4/3/17 Patrick Osgood on Iraq’s present crisis and future prospects

by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Osgood, Kurdistan Bureau Chief for IraqOilReport.com, discusses the referendum on Kurdish independence, battling ISIS in Mosul and beyond, the impact of low oil prices on Iraq's economy, and whether Iraq can become a cohesive functioning state without a...

White House: Trump Expects Russia to Give Crimea to Ukraine

by Jason Ditz | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Also Expects to Get Along With Russia According to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, President Trump “expects” Russia to both make the level of violence in Eastern Ukraine go down, and to unconditionally “return” the Crimean Peninsula to the Ukrainian...

News Roundup 12/5/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog

Trump picks Ben Carson to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. [Link] Air B&B settles its lawsuit with New York City. New York City passed a law that will fine people for advertising their apartments for less than a 30-day stay. Air B&B dropped the...

Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit

by Glenn Greenwald | Nov 9, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice

The parallels between the U.K.’s shocking approval of the Brexit referendum in June and the U.S.’ even more shocking election of Donald Trump as president last night are overwhelming. Elites (outside of populist right-wing circles) aggressively unified across...

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The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)

***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...

Be Careful What You Ask for

You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.

Phony Noninterventionists

Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...

America First is Always the Sober Alternative to War on the World

My shortest post ever. Ironic that Israel has more US senators than America.

My Views

I discuss the news around deportations, the military parade, No Kings, and Iran v Israel. ALP

Anti-War Blog – It’s Never Enough

It is hard to be up to date with any coverage for an ongoing war, especially in the social media age. Things move fast, the information that is real, verified, takes time to be confirmed and understood as factual. Lies, deception and sensationalism spreads fast, it’s...

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