Weapons A Google-funded company is helping the Pentagon develop AI for drones. [Link] The US State Department approves over a billion dollars in weapon sales to Canada, Japan, and South Korea. [Link] Nuclear weapons are becoming less predictable and more dangerous....
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News Roundup 5/17/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 17, 2019 | News Roundup
Trump signs an executive order that gives the White House the power to bar US telecom companies from doing business with foreign companies. Trump targeted the Chinese company Huawei. [Link] Daniel Lazare breaks down the real consequences of the fake Russiagate...
5/10/19 Chris Woods on the Civilian Casualties in Raqqa from US-led Airstrikes
by Scott Horton | May 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Airwars' Chris Woods joins the show to discuss the recent findings that coalition airstrikes recently killed over a thousand civilians in Raqqa. The UN also estimates that although most residents were able to escape the city, 70% lost all their property in the...
News Roundup 5/9/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 10, 2019 | News Roundup
A Florida city is attempting to seize the home of an elderly man who let his grass get too long while he was caring for his dying mother. [Link] The US lifts sanctions on a Venezuelan general who defected. [Link] A deputy of Juan Guaido was arrested by the Venezuelan...
News Roundup 5/8/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 8, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Scott Ritter breaks down some lies told by Joe Biden told about Iraqi WMDs. [Link] Trump is asking for another $4.5 billion to enforce immigration law. [Link] Trump signs an executive order to fill 300,000 government cybersecurity jobs. [Link] The Pentagon...
American Interventionists Hurt the Cause of Freedom in Venezuela
by Ryan McMaken | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The United States has a long, violent history of intervention in Latin America, although few Americans know about it. Were one to ask the average American, for example, about the US occupation of the Dominican Republic — which lasted for eight years from 1916 to 1924...
War With Iran or Venezuela?
by Scott Horton | May 7, 2019 | Blog
I think neither. Not that there isn't a danger, but there are not enough bad things lining up to make either likely. Mostly because the ayatollah is too smart to take Bolton's bait. The Israeli propaganda about the threat of an Iranian attack is obvious bullshit....
Empire Failures guest Marko Marjanovic
by Kyle Anzalone | May 6, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
Marko Marjanovic returns to FPF to talk about Venezuela and Syria. Kyle and Marko discuss how US regime change efforts in Venezuela have failed to topple Maduro. The US actions have hurt the Venezuelan people and increased Maduro's popularity. In Syria, Assad is...
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Why I Pick on Israel
People close to me ask why I criticize Israel while ignoring the other bad governments in the world. (I guess they don't count the U.S. government as bad.) I have many reasons, but here's a big one: no other government (besides the U.S. government) claims to act in my...
Jill Biden: Stop it now! Joe Biden: She did not mean ‘stop’ it.
I told her to be quiet.
War is the Health, Wealth and Death of the State
“War is the health of the state.The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as...
The Logic of Eradicating Hamas
Is genocide logically required by Israel's stated objective of eradicating Hamas? It looks that way. Israel demonstrably believes that to wipe out Hamas, it must use overwhelming and indiscriminate force in the Gaza Strip, killing tens of thousands, wounding and...
Yes, UN Security Council Resolution 242 Is Legally Binding on Israel
Contrary to the claim made by ‘Destiny’ in a recent debate with Norman Finkelstein, UN Resolution 242 is legally binding on Israel.
The Israel Lobby Ain’t Shy
They are lots of things, but not that. Members of Congress’ far-left “Squad” who have championed Palestinians in the Middle East conflict are in danger of losing their seats in Democratic primaries. The efforts to remove Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman...
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