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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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Military Education and the Zampolit Parade Through the Institutions

The professional military education systems and the academies have been captured by the Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) zampolit cadres in a detailed and comprehensive way. In the military a zampolit is a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a...

Regime Apologists Continue to Insist the Carrier is Useful

They misspelled disposable. There is nothing hard to target about a very large ship traveling at very large ship speeds with very large wakes in the modern era by air breathing and non-air breathing detection assets. What this means is that all the carriers deployed...

The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon

The "mission capable rate" of these F35s is simply appalling. 23 years in and it still doesn't work. 23 years. And Congress won't kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper. The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine...

“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck…”

Hot garbage on the wing. The pursuit of US and Western air dominance is a pipe dream but a fever dream for the military industrial complex. The existential failure of this fighter program has been stunning to behold. The days of manned fighter aircraft are numbered in...

All Hail Homo Sovieticus Booboisie in America

Happy Dependence Day, Helots. The Declaration of Independence continues to be a masterwork of brevity and directness in its promise to sever ties and formalize a divorce. There is no sizable sector of America today that would even have the temerity to sign it much...

Unpossible! Another Fraud Complex Found in DoD Contractor

Another fraud incident with overcharging. Sikorsky is a Lockheed-Martin subsidiary. Sikorsky Support Services Inc., a helicopter manufacturer headquartered in Stratford, Conn., agreed to pay the federal government $70 million in a settlement alongside Wisconsin-based...

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