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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It NDs Today: The Swiss Adopt a Lemon
The Gods help them in this very silly selection by the Swiss armed forces. ND is a negligent discharge where the pistol fires when you haven't asked it to. Most inconvenient. So the Swiss are buying a gun that technically failed the evaluation just to keep the...
The Evergreen State Pays the Green Toll of Stupidity
I cover mostly military topics here at the LI Blog per my charter but on occasion I cover other topics. The Washington State ferry system is in tatters. It continues to get worse barely a week into the new year: Washington State Ferries needs 17 boats to operate at...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Patrick Henningsen: Venezuela: America’s Next Disaster?
A president is kidnapped, the government remains, and we’re told it isn’t regime change. We pull back the curtain on what our guest calls “regime changeover,” a strategy that uses spectacle and lawfare to force leverage without admitting occupation. From sanctions...
Pentagon Fraud: A Feature and Not a Bug Part XVII
The easiest solution to this is stand the entire military industrial complex down until they fix this. But that is far too responsible. The fraud you are seeing in MN, WA and MA is large but the financial mismanagement in the Pentagon is hundeds of billions of dollars...
New US Army Tank Just in Time for Retirement
“You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” - Ayn Rand I have said that aircraft carriers are the chariot and crossbow of the 21st century not fit for purpose on the oceans and the tank is certainly a nominee for that notion....
Trump Announces US Take Over of Venezuela, Kidnaps Maduro & Bombs Caracas
A pre-dawn post, a capital in darkness, and a president in cuffs aboard a U.S. ship—what started as a “one-night raid” is already morphing into something far bigger. We unpack how the strike on Venezuela unfolded, why the official story leaves key gaps, and what it...
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