Download Episode. Scott interviews journalist Cathy Logan and lawyer Eddie Lloyd about David McBride, the Australian whistleblower who revealed war crimes committed by Australian forces during the war in Afghanistan. McBride was just sentenced to prison. Vogan and...
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White House Calls on Kenya to Expedite Armed Deployment to Haiti
Responding to the deaths of two American missionaries in Haiti, the White House is pushing Kenya to rush armed men to Port-au-Prince. The US is providing funding and training for about 1,000 Kenyan troops that will be sent to Haiti and transfer authority to a...
The Pentagon Follies Continue
The most expensive paper tiger in Earth's history. The F35 continues to bleed out the treasury for no return. The House Armed Services Committee draft version of the bill, released today, also includes $33.8 billion in defense spending at other federal agencies such...
Firing Blanks: The Pentagon as a Fiscal Disaster Factory
I have mentioned previously that the introduction of all the latest and greatest western weapons in the inventory given to the Ukraine would have some very deleterious effects in the future. One was permitting possible future antagonists to observe and and take...
Chasing Ghosts Dispatch 006: The Carrier Reality: Dead on Arrival
Stop the madness. Stop deploying carriers Stop building them. Just stop. I won’t be getting Christmas cards this year from the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition I am not alone in these notions and the late Captain Wayne Hughes did yeoman’s work on these ideas...
Ukraine Seeks Reaper Drones to Aid Deep Strikes on Russian Forces
As Ukraine steps up its use of long-range munitions provided by Washington, it is also seeking to obtain the US-made MQ-9 Reaper drone to help locate targets well behind the frontlines. The aircraft quickly moved to the top of Kiev's weapons wishlist after the White...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...
Saturday Snippets 6 April 2024
Like all things, drone racing is the cutting edge of pressing the technology into the future, not government.It's these small and arcane subculture that drive innovation. Did I say not government? The Drone Racing League with tens of thousands of members. The market...
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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty
Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...
The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger
Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...
