Danny Sjursen explains why the courage of US soldiers is not enough to win wars. [Link] Trump will chair a UN Security Council meeting on Iran. [Link] The UK announces two Russians are suspects in the poisoning of the Skripals. [Link] Moon of Alabama identifies...
Syria
Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone?
by Ron Paul | Sep 5, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Assad was supposed to be gone already. President Obama thought it would be just another “regime change” operation and perhaps Assad would end up like Saddam Hussein or Yanukovych. Or maybe even Gaddafi. But he was supposed to be gone. The US spent billions to get rid...
News Roundup 9/5/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 5, 2018 | News Roundup
Arizona's governor selects former Senator Jon Kyl to fill John McCain's Senate seat. [Link] Aaron Mate argues Russiagate myths with James Risen. [Link] The US warns Israel not to attack Iranian targets in Iraq. [Link] US sanctions against Iran are starting to reduce...
8/31/18 Larry Wilkerson on Neocons in Trump Administration
by Scott Horton | Sep 4, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Larry Wilkerson, former army Colonel and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, is interviewed on his new article at LobeLog "The Neoconservative Comeback" on the growing influence of neoconservatism in the Trump Administration. Trump's Syria and...
News Roundup 9/4/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 4, 2018 | News Roundup
The US and Russia block a UN proposal to ban autonomous killer robots. [Link] The US is considering sending more weapons to Ukraine. [Link] The leader of the Ukrainian separatists was killed in a bombing. [Link] Eric Margolis on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in...
News Roundup 9/3/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 3, 2018 | News Roundup
A Colorado journalist was detained for filming police. The police officers will not face charges for wrongly detaining the journalist. [Link] Brian Saady explains the fallibility of forensic science. [Link] Ray McGovern explains how Senator Burr covered up CIA...
FPF #241 – Ending the Syrian Civil War
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 3, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #241, I discuss the US role in continuing the Syrian Civil War. David Ignatius of the Washington Post reports that a Trump official said the US policy is to draw Syria and Russia into a quagmire in Idlib. Ignatius argues for the US to do more to assist the...
8/29/18 Eric Margolis on Uri Avnery’s Life
by Scott Horton | Sep 2, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, the veteran journalist, is interviewed on his obituary of the brilliant Uri Avnery, "The Lion of Judah's Last Roar". The life of Uri Avnery. Topics discussed range from Avnery's efforts in the Middle East peace process, the Iraq Wars, Afghanistan,...
Blog
The Great American Fraud, David Petraeus, The Worst American General Since McClellan, Says Ukraine War Going Great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrbsUn6dqQ Update: If Russia uses nukes in Ukraine, Petraeus says: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and...
Voluntary Charity Gave Us the Statue of Liberty and the Salisbury Cathedral
764 years ago, the Salisbury Cathedral was consecrated in England. Considered the oldest example of early Gothic architecture in England, the old beauty maintains the largest cloister, the tallest spire, and the largest external park or “cathedral close,” of any...
Bin Ladenites Target Iran
Was it the CIA, Pentagon or Mossad behind it this time? you might wonder.
Afghan ISIS Slaughters Shia
Thanks alot, Obama, whose fault this is.
Military Conscription is Slavery
Anytime a sane person mentions the reality that military conscription is forced labor under vile conditions and therefore slavery, the person is almost always met with "but soldiers got paid." The bizarre response comes from the term "free labor" and the assumptions...
This Morning on Antiwar Radio: Kyle Anzalone on the War in Ukraine
That's at 9:00 Pacific time on 90.7 FM, KPFK in Los Angeles, kpfk.org.
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