Daniel Lazare comes back on the show to talk about Saudi Arabia, Trump, and the future Middle East politics. He explains an extremely common pattern in kingdoms and empires where after about three generations of family rule, massive upheaval or incompetence forces a...
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TGIF: Trump’s Middle East Delusions Persist
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump’s No. 2 special envoy to the Middle East behind son-in-law Jared Kushner, assures us that his boss’s plan to settle the Palestine-Israel “conflict” once and for all is still in the works and is going to be great. (It’s a conflict in the...
New Roundup 10/11/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 11, 2018 | News Roundup
Caitlin Johnstone explains why the glorification of Nikki Haley is unearned. [LInk] Russia is ready to extend the New START Treaty with the US. [Link] Erik Prince is meeting with influential Afghanis to push his plan to privatize the Afghan War. [Link] US...
News Roundup 10/10/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 10, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump suggests Chicago police use stop and frisk. [Link] Google announces that it will not seek a contract form the Pentagon to build a cloud network. [Link] The hawkish Trump administration is pushing the world closer to annihilation. [Link] US Ambassador to the UN...
News Roundup 10/9/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 9, 2018 | News Roundup
The Trump administration released a new counter-terrorism strategy. [Link] New Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh has a poor record on national security and war-making powers. [Link] Several US allies have considered buying the S-400 missile system from Russia. [Link]...
News Roundup 10/5/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 5, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump is expected to sign the FAA Reauthorization bill on Friday. [Link] In a letter to Senator Kaine, the Pentagon claims to have the authority to conduct near limitless military actions. [Link] The US pulls out of international agreements to avoid being subject to...
News Roundup 10/2/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 2, 2018 | News Roundup
Eric Margolis gives his take on Trump's UN speech. [Link] A US Navy destroyer and a Chinese Navy ship had a close encounter in the South China Sea. [Link] North Korea needs to see goodwill moves from the US for North Korea to denuclearize. [Link] A US airstrike kills...
News Roundup 10/1/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 1, 2018 | News Roundup
A federal judge strikes down Arizona's anti-BDS law. [Link] Facebook will partner with the Republican and Democratic NED groups to combat fake news. [Link] An F-35 crashed in South Carolina. [Link] Philip Giraldi explains why Trump's sanctions will not work. [Link]...
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Interview: Julian Assange Freed + Palestine’s Ancient History
Mike Leavitt and I discuss the US government’s criminalization of journalism and the pre-Israel history of Palestine.
They Will Want Boys and Men again… Anti-War Blog
The war pigs mount one another in squeals calling for blood as the drums of death beat to their cries. They want your boys and men...again. As war looms and imperial ambitions swell, the non-binary, obese, depressed, expecting mothers (or baby carrying persons) and...
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...
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