A "U.S. official" tells the Times, "the ultimate goal of the yearlong economic sanctions campaign by the Trump administration was to draw Iran into an armed conflict with the United States."
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Your Airforce: Afghan pilot training ends after almost half went AWOL in America
by Steven Woskow | May 3, 2019 | Blog
More than 40 percent of the Afghan Air Force students enrolled in the U.S.-based training program to fly the AC-208 Combat Caravan, a light attack combat aircraft, went AWOL, according to a quarterly report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan...
AG Barr at Hearing: What’s Really Behind Russiagate Hoax?
by Scott Horton | May 1, 2019 | Blog
Barr: many people assume that the Page FISA warrant/effort was the extent of the beginning of the investigation. That's not necessarily so. I'm going to find out. Update: I missed this, but Fox TV says that Barr told Lindsey Graham that he's assembled a new team to...
Wrongful Use or Threat of Capital Prosecutions: Official misconduct by police and/or prosecutors is the leading cause
by Steven Woskow | Apr 25, 2019 | Blog
Official misconduct by police and prosecutors and perjured testimony (not errors) are the number one contributing factor to wrongful homicide convictions according to data from the The Death Penalty Information Center. The report summarizes data from the National...
What a Hollow Pretext For a Putsch
by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog
The FBI is trying to pretend they really believed Trump fired Comey on Russian orders rather than over Comey's J. Edgar Hoover-type extortion scheme he pulled on Trump with the fake foreign dossier and launching this whole fake investigation of him in the first place....
Sanders Defends Omar from ‘Anti-Semitic’ Smears
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog
Jewish Democratic Party Presidential Frontrunner Bernie Sanders: “Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world. We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the...
Elizabeth Warren is a Racist
by Scott Horton | Feb 23, 2019 | Blog
Against anyone in Israel's way: "[O]ver time realities are bearing down on Israel, demographic realities, births and deaths. What the region looks like." Philip Weiss: "Warren parrots the 'demographics' talk that would be the death penalty for a liberal politician in...
FPF # 306 – The Borg Seeks Regime Change in Venezuela
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 4, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #306, I update the political uncertainty in Venezuela. Maduro appears to be retaining control over the country. However international actors continue to push the Juan Guaido government. I discuss the regime change effort coming from the United States. Links...
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RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace
Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a...
F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again
The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire...
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place...
Italian Navy Wins the Gold for Patrol Vessels
ITS Giovanni Delle Bande Nere arrived in Faslane and came alongside at Garelochhead yesterday. Italian shipbuilding bookends just how ghastly and horrendous US Navy procurement is. In roughly the same time it took the US to fight over and fail to build the...
Working Class w/Batya Ungar-Sargon
Batya and I discuss the point off view of working class people. Alp
A Review of Sinners (2025)
This review contains spoilers for Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025). It is reprinted from Libertarian Institute editor Hunter DeRensis' Letterboxd. I never expected that I would be quoting Zora Neale Hurston in back-to-back film reviews, but her insights are too valuable...
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