A Colorado police officer that killed an innocent man in his home will not face charges. [Link] The CIA briefs select Senators on the Khashoggi murder. [Link] The Senators who attended the briefing feel more convinced that MbS is guilty of ordering the murder of Jamal...
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12/3/18 Andrew Bacevich Reflects on the Long War
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Retired U.S. Army Col. Andrew Bacevich, author of the new book, Twilight of the American Century, joins the show to talk about the nomination of retired general John Abizaid as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which Bacevich says should be an occasion to reflect on what...
News Roundup 12/3/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 3, 2018 | News Roundup
A postal worker admits to stealing $5,200 from greeting cards. [Link] The Department of Justice awards $17 million to the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. [Link] A Dallas police officer who killed a man after entering his apartment has been indicted for murder....
News Roundup 11/30/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2018 | News Roundup
Three St. Louis police officers were indicted for beating an undercover cop. [Link] Trump and Putin will meet December 1st. [Link] Trump canceled his meeting with Putin. Trump said he was canceling the meeting over Russia’s refusal to release Ukrainian ships and...
FPF #278 – Progress
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF # 278, I discuss a vote advancing to a debate on Senate Joint Resolution 54, a War Powers bill that will end the US support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. The vote passed 63-37, all the nays were Republicans. Saudi Arabia's genocidal war against the people of...
News Roundup 11/29/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 29, 2018 | News Roundup
Julian Assange is living in isolation. [Link] US Air Force General Charles Brown says the US has stopped flying bombers over the Korean Peninsula. [Link] The Israeli military has shot over 6,000 Gazan protesters in the past eight months. [Link] Israel has destroyed 30...
News Roundup 11/28/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 28, 2018 | News Roundup
The FBI has 5,000 active terror investigations. [Link] Russia releases video of Ukrainian sailors admitting they provoked the incident with Russia in the Strait of Kerch. [Link] Trump’s statement on the incident in the Strait of Kerch stops short of condemning Russia....
News Roundup 11/27/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 27, 2018 | News Roundup
Police shoot and kill an innocent man while responding to a shooting at a mall. Initial reports of the shooting claimed the innocent man was the criminal. [Link] A Missouri woman was sentenced to 20 days in prison for speeding. [Link] Sheldon Richman argues Trump is...
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Hey Moe! Hey Larry! Look, It’s the Army Watercraft Circus!
Not only can they not float a portable pier [Gaza] (at a cool burn rate of 335 million debt-bucks) but they can't maintain an aging fleet of maritime connectors. The Army continues to trip over itself in most missions. Maybe they could reach zero by 2028 in the...
The US Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Contemporary Military Incompetence
The six-thousand-ton INS Arihant sank in 2017 and remained out of service at the docks while the water was pumped out, and the pipes replaced. The entire process took ten months. Imagine not only not having the sea sense to seal your boat before diving but having no...
Israeli War Crimes Documented by the Israeli Defense Forces
There’s no sense denying Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and wanton destruction when its war crimes are documented by its own armed forces.
Government Subsidy of K-PhD: The Suicide Pact of Western Civilization
The German Empire arranged passage for Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, to Russia to try to seize power from the government. They traveled on an armored train through Germany then took a ship to Sweden where...
Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues
I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren't in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers. The DoD has...
Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
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