On FPF #265, I discuss President Trump deploying troops to the southern border to assist in preventing migrants from entering the US. I explain why it is a mistake to treat the migrants as invaders. I update the Syrian War. The American mission in continues to kill...
Syria
News Roundup 10/29/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 29, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump says he will order 800 troops to the southern border to stop migrants. [Link] The Pentagon will deploy helicopters, engineers, and medics. [Link] The Pentagon grounds 24 F-35s over fuel system concerns. [Link] Col. Douglas Macgregor explains how Trump is dealing...
Here’s why Europe went to Istanbul to talk Syria (without the U.S.)
by Brad Hoff | Oct 28, 2018 | Blog
Wow... the optics out of Saturday's Syria summit in Istanbul. While it's true there were no major breakthroughs or significant shifts in the Astana process in terms of winding down the seven-year long war to come out of the four-way meeting involving France, Germany,...
News Roundup 10/25/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 25, 2018 | News Roundup
Police use fake social media accounts to surveil innocent people. [Link] Vice President Pence says the US will not rule out putting nukes in space. [Link] National Security Adviser John Bolton says the US will not withdraw from the INF Treaty until after talking with...
News Roundup 10/23/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 23, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump suggests the US may withdraw from the INF Treaty with Russia. [Link] National Security Adviser John Bolton calls for the US to withdraw from the INF Treaty. [Link] Trump threatens to increase the size of the US nuclear weapons arsenal until other nations come to...
10/20/18 Martha Mundy Gives an Update on Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 22, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Martha Mundy talks about the ongoing war in Yemen, with a particular focus on some of the more barbaric Coalition tactics, including the deliberate bombing of humanitarian and agricultural targets. Scott explains some of the United States and IMF policies that led to...
News Roundup 10/22/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Several independent media outlets banned from social networks were blacklisted by Prop or Not. [Link] Tulsi Gabbard is considering a 2020 presidential campaign. [Link] Max Blumenthal reports on Nikki Haley's last speech before announcing her resignation. [Link] Jeff...
US Airstrikes Kill 32 Civilians in Eastern Syria
by Jason Ditz | Oct 20, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Airstrikes pound one of the last ISIS towns in Deir Ezzor Via Antiwar.com. US airstrikes against the town of Souseh, one of the last ISIS-held territories in Syria’s Deir Ezzor Province, killed at least 32 civilians, many of them women and children, according to the...
Blog
Muslim Network News: The al Zawahiri Drone Strike and “We Kill Because We Can”
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid and Laurie Calhoun discuss the Zawahiri drone strike and "We Kill Because We Can" on Muslim Network News - August 2, 2022. Drone discussion begins at 15:36 and lasts 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/sh1ZEQYuhIA
Drone Assassination: Inconvenient Facts
On the assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri by U.S. drone in Kabul (from Accuracy.org): [Laurie Calhoun] said today: “President Biden has pivoted from the multiple crises of his administration — inflation, heightened tensions with China and Iran, and even the very real...
The Brief Case for Pacifism – Bryan Caplan, Ph.D.
“My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits of war are highly...
Why We Should Study China
I would posit that there is no civilization so utterly foreign to Americans than China. Often, American impressions of China are informed by preconceptions, myth, and fear of the other. For the average American, the sum of all knowledge about China is derived...
Kennedy Tonight
Tonight I'll be back on Kennedy Nation talking central banking and war. Update:
Cuban Missile Crisis Things
This old New Yorker piece about Curtis LeMay has some details about the Missile Crisis that I did not know and want to save here for someday. So we all already knew that 1: the USSR did already have operational short and medium range missiles in Cuba, but Khrushchev...
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