Ben Armbruster has a great rundown over at the LobeLog of all the recent fake news stories about the "increased Iran threat" in the past couple weeks. Of course it all started with the Israelis, and if there was a kernel of truth to it at all it was that the Iranians...
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French activists stop Saudi arms shipment bound for Yemen
by Steven Woskow | May 11, 2019 | Blog
The Bahri-Yanbu, a Saudi Arabian cargo ship was scheduled to pick up a load of weapons bound for Yemen at a northern French port. The ship departed France without the weapons a day after a rights group tried to block the cargo on humanitarian grounds. French rights...
Benjamin Netanyahu Added to the Terrorist List
by Scott Horton | May 7, 2019 | Blog
Okay, well, he sure belongs there.
The terror wars are getting old
by Steven Woskow | May 7, 2019 | Blog
Guantanamo Bay begins construction on senior care wing. GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA—Saying the expansion would ensure the facility is adequately prepared for upcoming challenges, officials at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp announced Wednesday that they had broken ground...
The Impact of War
by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog
George O'Neill Jr. of the Committee for a Responsible Foreign Policy has been hosting antiwar events in Washington, D.C. for the past couple of years, including one last October when I gave a speech about the war on terrorism. The transcripts of all these events are...
Trump Names the IRGC ‘Terrorists’
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 9, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #334, I discuss the Trump admin naming Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terror organization. I explain the false arguments used by the Trump admin to claim the IRGC supports terror groups. The move makes a conflict with Iran more likely. Links Eric...
4/4/19 Bette Dam on the Secret Life of Mullah Omar
by Scott Horton | Apr 9, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to journalist Bette Dam about her new book, Searching For An Enemy: The Secret Life Of Mullah Omar. Dam also reflects on how journalists may need to rethink the ways they report on the terror wars. Bette Dam is a journalist and the author of A Man and A...
Israel First
by Scott Horton | Apr 8, 2019 | Blog
Netanyahu says Trump labeled Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terror group at his request. I believe him.
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The Lay Flat Generation
“Everything in my life is controlled, living is becoming too expensive. I have no dreams. My only joy is thinking about dying.” Ji-woo, nineteen years of age. It seems, especially to older generations, the youth are giving up. A malaise and wider apathy has taken hold...
Rules for Radicals: Tactics pt1 w/John Weeks
John and I continue commentary and reading Rules for Radicals
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Harrison Berger Breaks Down Israel’s New Influence Strategy
A president calling reporters “treasonous” isn’t just a hot take, it’s a warning sign. Harrison Berger joins me to break down how that rhetoric is being used to police debate around the Iran war, and why it echoes years of reckless “traitor” accusations aimed at...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Will Trump’s Trip to China Change the Course of the Iran War? w/ Patrick Henningsen
Trump comes back from Beijing claiming he got a major concession from Xi on Iran, but what happens when the key details are private, unverifiable, and packaged for headlines? We walk through the public messaging, the contradictions, and the incentives on both sides,...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump in China, Iran War on the Horizon?
Trump heads to China with a lineup of high-profile U.S. business leaders, but we can’t treat it like a normal trade trip. We dig into the uncomfortable reality underneath the photo ops: America’s dependence on rare earth minerals and specialized refining, including...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Considers Restarting War, Says Iran Ceasefire on Life Support
A president says he has “the best plan ever,” insists Iran is “defeated militarily,” and talks like one more strike package can end the problem. We slow that down and look at the actual mechanics of a modern Iran war: depleted standoff munitions, limited Patriot and...
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