US News Black drivers in Missouri are 91% more likely to be pulled over than white drivers. [Link] A new law will require some Alabama sex offenders to be medically castrated before getting parole. [Link] All criminal charges have been dropped against Flint officials...
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Two Tankers Attacked in Gulf of Oman
by Jason Ditz | Jun 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Two tankers traveling through the Gulf of Oman were attacked on Thursday, forcing the crews to abandon the ships, and which left one of the ships on fire. One of the sailors was reported “slightly injured” in the incidents. The ships were the Front Altair, a tanker...
News Roundup 6/12/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 12, 2019 | News Roundup
US News The US formally request the UK extradite Julian Assange. [Link] The Trump administration calls for Saudi Arabia to show tangible progress into the investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. [Link] Senate Democrats and Republicans are working to block...
News Roundup 6/10/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 10, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Texas raises the smoking age to 21. [Link] Officials release video showing corrections officers turning off a body camera then beating a restrained prisoner. [Link] Senator Rand Paul says someone in the deep state prevented John Brennan from losing his...
News Roundup 6/7/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 7, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Bernie Sanders calls for the end of the occupation of Palestine. [Link] YouTube will begin to ban videos that promote extremist ideologies and conspiracies. [Link] Ben Norton breaks down the legacy media misreporting Kim Jong-un had purged his nuclear...
Pentagon’s Phony Iran ‘Evidence’: New Rationale for US Intervention?
by Gareth Porter | Jun 6, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Last week a senior Pentagon official accused Iran of having sabotaged four oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on May 12 and of firing a rocket into Baghdad’s Green Zone on May 19. Iran executed these events, he said, either directly or through regional “proxies.” But...
Violent Protests In Sudan: Paramilitaries Supported by Saudi Arabia Throw Dead Bodies in River
by Steven Woskow | Jun 6, 2019 | Blog
Paramilitaries in Khartoum threw dozens of bodies into the Nile to try to hide the number of casualties inflicted during a dawn attack on pro-democracy protesters in the Sudanese capital earlier this week, doctors and activists have said. Heavily armed units of the...
News Roundup 6/6/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 6, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Rep Lieu and Sen Markey warn against creating low-yield nuclear weapons. [Link] Trump blocks cruise ships from stopping in Cuba. [Link] The Trump administration approved the transfer of sensitive nuclear information to Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal...
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What’s Happening w/Buck Johnson
Buck joined me to discuss fentanyl, drug addiction, boomer cons, media treatment of Trump, and what is going right and wrong in the Trump administration. ALP
100 Memers vs One Pamela Anderson
The social media feed gruel has switched it’s serving of slop from the speculation about the potential outcome of one hundred men versus a gorilla. The content creators who recycle the same shit, because of algorithms and trends now concern themselves with the...
Anti-War Blog – Too Thirsty to Cry
In the photo essay, Ethiopia : The Scorched Earth, Mary Anne Fitzgerald writes in the caption beneath a photo of a young girl crying, “Tears of hunger are a good sign. During the final stages of malnutrition children are too weak to cry.” There was Live Aid and U.S.A....
RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace
Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a...
F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again
The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire...
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place...
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