In 1985, the classic horror-comedy film Return of the Living Dead was unleashed upon the world. In it, a worker at a medical supply warehouse accidentally releases a chemical weapon while hazing a teenage employee. The weapon, now affectionately known as “Tar-man,”...
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Blinken Announces New $100 Million Security Package to Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 27, 2022 | News Roundup
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a new $100 million military aid package to Ukraine on Sunday while visiting Israel. The latest security assistance will include armored vehicles for Ukrainian police and border guards. The US labeled the donation - which...
Rep. Cheney Suggests Chemical Weapons ‘Red Line’ in Ukraine as Calls for US Intervention Grow Louder
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 21, 2022 | News Roundup
Congresswoman Liz Cheney said the US should take action in Ukraine in the event Russia uses chemical weapons, echoing a recent threat by Washington’s UN envoy, who warned that America will “respond aggressively” if such weapons are deployed.
COI #244: Iran Talks Impacted By Russia’s War in Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 8, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #244, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the latest on the JCPOA negotiations and the Ukraine war. Connor discusses the apparently imminent U.S. return to the JCPOA. To bring skyrocketing energy prices down, President Joe Biden has put working out a deal...
Coup: “The Extent of the Obama Administration’s Meddling in Ukraine’s Politics Was BREATHTAKING”
by Keith Knight | Mar 8, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/33gfPwojiUI But imagine if the shoe was on the other foot, in, say, Canada: What if the Russians, after having won the Cold War, had begun incorporating all of Latin America into their Warsaw Pact military alliance, and then even used neo-Nazis to do...
Turkey to Host Top Diplomats for Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 8, 2022 | News Roundup
NATO member Turkey will preside over high-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia later this week, its foreign minister said, the first sit-down involving top diplomats from the warring nations since Moscow’s invasion began in late February.
Iran Nuclear Deal Revival Appears Imminent, But Issues Remain
by Connor Freeman | Mar 7, 2022 | News Roundup
After 11 months of talks, a U.S. return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear deal, appears more likely each week. The Europeans’ respective chief negotiators have already begun posting photos of their teams, thanking them for their work,...
NATO, RussiaGate, Ukraine’s 2014 Coup, Nuclear Weapons & the Donbas War. Scott Horton & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Mar 4, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/XWr59FTdA38 As Pat Buchanan, a former ardent Cold Warrior in the bad old days, likes to point out, the U.S. used to draw the line at the Elbe river half-way across Germany. The threat was that if the Soviets invaded West Germany, threatening France,...
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Israel’s Amazing Feat
Israel has accomplished quite a feat: its crimes against the people of Gaza are of such a large scale that they make Hamas's Oct. 7 crimes look small.
Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures
Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for...
A Soho Forum discussion of COVID with Tom Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q Check out Tom's great book, Diary of a Psychosis.
US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine
Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three...
The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age
The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...
Here’s an Idea
If you can't tell the difference between 2024 America and 1930s Germany, let's not have a conversation, okay?