“What,” I sometimes ask students in a class I teach on the history of terrorism, “was the name of the Islamic State’s branch in Europe?” It is a trick question: the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) never set up a full-fledged European branch. The group’s...
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News Roundup 9/20/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 20, 2021 | News Roundup
China France recalled its ambassadors from the US and Australia over the countries nuclear submarine agreement. [Link] The US says that at the coming meeting of ‘Quad’ leaders, India, Australia, Japan, and the US will agree to develop semiconductor supply chains....
COI Review: Netflix’s 9/11 Documentary Turning Point
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 19, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On this COI bonus show, Matteo Marchionni - host of the Neutral Partisan Report - returns to the show to review the new Netflix documentary Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror. The documentary reveals a shocking number of crimes committed by the US post-9/11....
Episode 632: 1930s Germany, Or 2035 Portland w/ Aaron and Car from Timeline Earth
by Peter R. Quiñones | Sep 19, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
66 Minutes Some Strong Language Aaron and Car are 2/3 of the hosts of the TImeline Earth Podcast. Aaron and Car join Pete to comment on current events, have a few laughs and at one point amswer the question as to whether you'd want to live in 1930s Germany, or 2035...
For Every Action There Is An Equal And Opposite Reaction
by Scott Shearin | Sep 17, 2021 | Blog
I never speak it out loud, but recently I’m constantly repeating a movie our daughter used to watch when she was little. Over the Hedge I believe it was called. I constantly hear the little squirrel straining to see the end of the newly constructed impediment, in his...
Five Myths About Drone Warfare
by Steven Woskow | Sep 17, 2021 | Blog
Myth 1. It's "precision bombing" Myth 2. Drone warfare is ethical Myth 3. If the war is legal so is the weapon Myth 4. Drones are a triumph of technology Myth 5. Drones are effective Aerial bombardment has not created peaceful states, nor defeated IS, nor stopped the...
Mom Swarmed By Police, Beaten, and Her Child Kidnapped For Social Media Credit
by Matt Agorist | Sep 17, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As the Free Thought Project reported last October, the police shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr., a Philly man in a mental health crisis who charged officers with a knife, set off massive unrest in the city. On the first night of unrest, TFTP reported on multiple...
Political Cartoon: Villains
by C. Jamison | Sep 16, 2021 | Blog
C. Jamison is a cartoonist and graduate from the Corcoran College of Art + Design located in Washington, DC.
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Iran Hits US Targets in Iraq
https://twitter.com/DEFCONWSALERTS/status/1214692730879795200 https://twitter.com/axios/status/1214692204226236417
About that Air Base in Iraq
After the Iraqi parliament (sans Sunni and Kurdish members) voted to oust US troops from Iraq, Trump said, "We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before, ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame. We have a very extraordinarily expensive...
bitcoin is Dead: Part 3
Click here for Part 2 For the audio version, check out my podcast A Boy Named Pseu where you can download it on all podcast platforms. (read starts at 8:54) Read full piece here. If bitcoin is dead, then the President didn’t tweet about it Governments have officially...
Will Iran Choose 1,953 Sites?
Trump tweets that he has selected 52 sites in Iran, including cultural sites, for bombing if the Iranian regime retaliates for Trump's assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Why 52? That "represent[s] the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years...
War Powers Resolutions Don’t Matter
Marbury v. Madison took the written U.S. Constitution and superseded it with a British style system of an unwritten constitutionality. This was judicial review and it lasted until the New Deal when the jurisprudence of limited government figured out that the...
Ron Paul asks: Why Was Soleimani Assassinated?
President Trump and Mike Pompeo told us that Iranian Gen. Soleimani had to be assassinated when he was in Baghdad at the end of last week because he was on a mission to plan and implement attacks on US military and diplomatic personnel in the region. But their story...
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