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News Roundup 3/31/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog

Flynn offers to testify about the Trump campaign connections to Russia in exchange for immunity. [Link] Trump has given the military power to conduct offensive counterterrorism strikes against al-Shabaab in Somalia. Previously, the US was only about to conduct strikes...

It’s Time to End America’s Longest War

by Thomas L. Knapp | Mar 26, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

In the latest round of saber-rattling between the US and North Korean governments, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid down the well-worn line. “All options,” he said during a visit to South Korea, “are on the table.” If he’s serious, here’s an option that never...

Rex Tillerson: US Forces Will Stay in Iraq After Defeat of Islamic State

by Joel Gehrke | Mar 23, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

U.S. military forces will remain in Iraq after the military defeat of the Islamic State in order to avert another resurgence of the terrorist organization, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Wednesday. "The military power of the coalition will remain where...

Tillerson: Pre-emptive force an option with North Korea

by AP | Mar 18, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States signaled a tougher strategy toward North Korea on Friday that leaves open the possibility of pre-emptive military action and rejects talks with the communist nation until it gives up its weapons of mass destruction. "Let me...

News Roundup 2/2/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog

Senate Democrats have been boycotting committee meeting because committee rules state that at least one member of each party had to be present for the vote. This has allowed the Democrats to temporarily block some of Trump's appointees from being approved by the...

Donald ‘Hillary Clinton’ Trump: To Syria!

by Scott Horton | Jan 25, 2017 | Blog

#HortonsLaw says you can forget any good promise a politician makes and take all the bad ones to the bank. Well: Washington Times: Trump orders ‘safe zones’ in Syria despite fears of deeper U.S. involvement in war "President Trump is ordering the Pentagon and State...

Br’er Rabbit and the Neocons

by Sheldon Richman | Jan 13, 2017 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman

Considering the hawkishness of Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense-designate James Mattis, the neocons' opposition to Donald Trump looks more like Br'er Rabbit's opposition to the briar patch.

1/11/17 Gilbert Doctorow on secretary of state nominee Tillerson, and Henry Kissinger’s influence on Trump’s foreign policy

by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Gilbert Doctorow, the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord, discusses secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson's carefully-crafted comments during his Senate confirmation hearing; the US's entirely avoidable suicidal conflict with...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q Check out Tom's great book, Diary of a Psychosis.

US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine

Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three...

The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age

The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...