Military Times: Afghan officials: US airstrike killed 10 civilians in Herat A drone attack carried out by U.S. forces earlier this month in western Afghanistan that apparently targeted a splinter Taliban group also killed at least 10 civilians, including three women...
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NBC Tattle-Tales on Trump, Claiming He Wants Out of Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Dec 14, 2019 | Blog
Which they take at face value and also to be a horrible, cynical thing to do. Which, if it's at all true, then it probably is for political reasons, but so what? Doesn't that just mean that that's what the American people -- the right even -- want to happen, and that...
Afghan War Disaster Continues On
by Scott Horton | Dec 14, 2019 | Blog
NYT: At Least 23 Soldiers Killed in Insider Attack in Afghanistan At least 23 [ANA] soldiers were killed while they were sleeping on Saturday in an insider attack in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, the latest episode of enemy infiltration that has raised concerns...
12/13/19 Adam Wunische on the Real Lesson From the Afghanistan Papers
by Scott Horton | Dec 14, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Adam Wunische discusses the fact that Afghans overwhelmingly want U.S. troops out of their country—and they are also optimistic about the chances for a peaceful resolution to the resultant power vacuum. Scott has always said there's a strong chance that the civil...
Trump Issues Pardons in War Crimes Cases
by Jason Ditz | Nov 17, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Pentagon commanders worried moves will undermine military justice Even with all the wars the US is presently involved in and all the shady activity that goes with that, it’s fairly unusual for the military to get around to charging personnel with war crimes. When they...
How Could Afghans Support the Taliban?
by Scott Horton | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog
Maybe it's because the government we've built for them is made of mass child rapists.
Joint US-Afghan Strike Kills 40 Civilians at Wedding
by Jason Ditz | Sep 24, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For the second time in a week, a US military operation in Afghanistan has ended with a large number of civilians dead, and US officials offering very dubious arguments as to why it wasn’t their fault. The Sunday night attack saw US and Afghan commandos raid a house in...
News Roundup 9/18/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 18, 2019 | News Roundup
US News The US will attempt to steal all the money Edward Snowden makes on his new book. [Link] The US sanctions three people and 16 groups in Venezuela. The sanctions allegedly target people and groups stealing from food aid. [Link] Colombia is being pushed by the US...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Is Trump The Best Israeli President Ever?
Trump says he wants a deal with Iran. Netanyahu hints the real goal is regime change anyway. That contradiction is where diplomacy goes to die, and it is also where Americans get dragged into a war they did not vote for. We roll solo and ask the blunt question a lot...
You don’t need the sun glasses…
It turns out wearing the glasses made no difference. In the John Carpenter film, They Live, our hero John Nada is one in many workers stumbling from hunger to poverty and piece work in an economy that is only built to exploit them. It’s a film both critical of Reagan...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Jim Webb: Trump to Netanyahu: ‘You’re F**king Crazy’
Trump didn’t just get “frustrated” with Netanyahu. He confirmed he told him, “Are you effing crazy,” and that single moment raises a bigger question: if the White House is truly fed up, why does the region still look like it’s sliding toward wider war? Jim Webb joins...
The Other Side of the Slap
I spent a lot of time dealing with the victim of violence. That betrayal only a lover can express, the sinister switch from affection or at least the performance required to invent love, to twist into a tantrum of rage. The bruising and cuts, a secondary blistering to...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Meeting in Situation Room to Decide on Iran Deal
A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,”...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Daniel McAdams: Axios Says US–Iran Deal Reached as U.S. and IRAN Trade Missile Fire
Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is...
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