On COI #141, Kyle breaks down the leak, arrest, and sentencing of drone whistleblower Daniel Hale. While working for a defense contractor at the National Geostrategic Intelligence Agency, Hale handed scores of important documents exposing the drone program to the...
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News Roundup 7/27/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 27, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The VA will require 115,000 healthcare employees to get vaccinated. [Link] Venezuela says a US military plane violated its airspace along the border with Colombia. [Link] Great Power The US will meet with Russian officials for arms control talks in Geneva this...
Faux Populists Shill for the Permanent War State
by Connor Freeman | Jul 21, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
American imperial policy has sharply trained its sights on Russia and China. Under President Joe Biden, sanctions have been levied against both countries and, along with its allies, the U.S. military, has maintained a near constant, hostile, military presence in both...
News Roundup 7/15/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 15, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Over the second half of 2020, Twitter says it got over 350 requests from governments to remove content from the accounts of nearly 200 verified journalists. Twitter reports removing five of the tweets. Twitter received 14,500 requests for information from...
News Roundup 7/13/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 13, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The FDA added a warning to the Johnson and Johnson covid vaccine. The FDA reports at least 100 cases of Guillain Barre syndrome. [Link] A Marine received six months confinement and hard labor for murdering a Navy Seal in Mali. The murder happened in 2017 and...
News Roundup 6/16/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 16, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Two states now require cops to get a warrant before searching DNA databases, like 23 and Me. [Link] The military lost track of 1,900 firearms over the past decade. [Link] China The US is considering creating a permanent anti-China naval task force. [Link] In...
News Roundup 6/15/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 15, 2021 | News Roundup
US News California will spend $100 million to try to help the legal cannabis business compete with the illegal sellers. [Link] Biden backs a House bill that will repeal the 2002 AUMF. [Link] USAID is giving El Salvador $115 million. About half of the money will go to...
COI#108 – Biden Feeds the War Machine guest Dave DeCamp
by Kyle Anzalone | May 12, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
Dave DeCamp, News Editor at Antiwar.com, returns to Conflicts of Interest to discuss Biden’s foreign policy through his first 100 days in office. As a candidate, Biden pledged to end the forever wars and scale back tensions with Iran. While he has reduced some US...
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Sig P320/M17/18: MILSPEC is Overrated
A negligent discharge (ND) in a weapon is when the operator strokes the trigger that results in the firing of the weapon. In my time, the lion's share of these are NDs but actual mechanical (unintentional, accidental or "uncommanded") discharges were rare and then the...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part II)
In Part I, I discussed and critiqued an overview of the new efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal. Here, we'll chat (again) about the Sentinel which is the improved replacement for the aging Minuteman III ICBM and it is already in trouble with the schedule sliding...
Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part I)
The United States is on track to spend the equivalent of more than two Manhattan projects per year in one of the most expensive nuclear arms races in history. The US has not done a recorded air breathing nuclear detonation since 1992 (the last US test, Julin-Divider,...
Israel’s Criminal Assault on Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: ‘Israel killed my grandmother!’
Israel has twice assaulted the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, leaving behind horrifying death and destruction, and no evidence of a Hamas headquarters.
The Spirit Dissolves: Imminent B2 Retirement
Stealth is a buzzword, please keep in mind that long wave radars detects the minuscule radar cross sections of "stealth" platforms. It can still be detected by a sufficiently powerful radar or at sufficiently close ranges. Dual-band radars are more effective against...
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