A jury found Paul Manafort guilty of eight fraud charges. None of the charges are related to the 2016 election. [Link] Senators are looking into a report of lead poisoning on US Army bases. [Link] Senator Rand Paul suggests talking with Russia about halting NATO...
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News Roundup 8/14/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 14, 2018 | News Roundup
Students who attend schools with SROs are five times more likely to be arrested. [Link] Peter Strzok has been fired from the FBI. [Link] Elon Musk says Saudi is funding his plan to take Tesla private. [Link] The Pentagon may begin to consider a company's security when...
FPF #229 – Korean Peace Moves Forward
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 6, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #229, I look at the difference between the US media portrayal of the Korean peace process and what is actually happening in the region. The US media has focused on stories that indicate North Korea and Trump are ruining the peace process. However, North and...
News Roundup 7/6/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 6, 2018 | News Roundup
USPS ordered to pay the owner of the Las Vegas statue of liberty $3.5 million after mistakenly using a photo of it on a stamp. [Link] EPA head Scott Pruitt resigns. [Link] The US Border Patrol has boarded ten Canadian fishing boats in the past week. [Link] South...
News Roundup 7/5/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 5, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump has repeatedly pushed for the US to invade Venezuela. [Link] North and South Korea play a basketball friendly. [Link] War hawks continue to push Iranian regime change by using the terrorist group MEK. [Link] Syrian rebels continue to lose towns in southwest...
News Roundup 6/27/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 27, 2018 | News Roundup
How the US government ends up spending $10,000 on a toilet seat. [Link] Trump has expanded the Obama drone program. [Link] Defense Sec Mattis traveled to China to meet with President Xi. [Link] North and South Korea hold talks on moving North Korea's...
Trump Meets Kim, Averting Threat of Nuclear War—and US Pundits Are Furious
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | Jun 18, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It was an electrifying sight that captured the imagination of millions of people living on the crisis-weary Korean Peninsula but sent many Americans spinning into paroxysms of anger and cynicism, depending on their politics and knowledge of the rocky history of US...
News Roundup 6/15/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 15, 2018 | News Roundup
A judge's ruling allows a lawsuit - against the US government to remove a name from the kill list - to move forward. [Link] North and South Korea agree to reestablish military communication lines. [Link] South Korean election results show support for President Moon...
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Crossing the Rubicon
I am saddened by Charlie Kirk's passing and the method by which he left this life. Whether you agree with him or not, there is never a good reason for this kind of speech cancellation to take place. Kirk took the fight to Ground Zero for American government...
Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Caught
My thoughts on the news that they caught Charlie Kirk's murderer.
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Violence Did Not Silence the Voice of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s last word was “violence,” but his last act, before an act of violence took his life, was an act of non-violence: the act of speaking that word. He died doing what he did all his brief adult life: working to persuade others through peaceful, yet...
Anti-War Blog – “Never Again”
“Never again.” Those words were spoken in the wake of the second world war, the revelation and realisation that a sophisticated, educated and civilsed nation of people could commit atrocities of such a scale. Not merely a genocide, a regime of torture, slavery and...
The F35 Follies: The Grift Keeps on Giving
I took months off to work on other projects and catch up on other business. I'm back. The F35 continues to be the gift that keeps on grifting. The F35B and C models are the Marine Corps Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing (STOVL) and US Navy aircraft respectively. Both the...
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