The US announced a $9 million military assistance package to the Somali government based in Mogadishu. The Joe Biden administration hopes the Somali military will use the weapons against al-Shabaab. A statement by US Africa Command on Sunday said the package includes...
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12/30/22 John Kiriakou on the CIA, FBI, JFK and 9/11
by Scott Horton | Jan 3, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with John Kiriakou—former CIA officer, whistleblower and author— to discuss revelations, old and new, about the CIA’s connections to Lee Harvey Oswald as well as the agency’s awareness of 9/11 hijackers before the attacks. They also...
Three Democratic Lawmakers Make Diplomatic Visit to Cuba
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 11, 2022 | News
A delegation from the Congressional Progressive Caucus has traveled to Havana to meet with the Cuban president, holding a rare high-level sit-down with officials from the heavily sanctioned island, which remains under a Cold War-era trade embargo.
Justice Denied: The Contrast of Ross Ulbricht and Sam Bankman-Fried
by Matt Agorist | Nov 30, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“How did this dude steal billions of dollars and is now speaking at a summit as a free man? Make it make sense.”- the internet. This is the question that millions of people are asking after weeks have now passed since Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX scandal unfolded....
Major News Publications (Finally) Ask U.S. To Cease Prosecution of Julian Assange
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Five major Western news organizations have finally spoken out for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and are calling on the U.S. government to drop the charges against him. In a letter to the U.S. government, the editors and publishers of The New York Times, The...
News Roundup 11/16/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 16, 2022 | News Roundup
Russia President Biden told reporters in Indonesia on Wednesday that it’s “unlikely” the missile that hit a village in Poland Tuesday near the Ukrainian border was fired by Russia and that “preliminary” information indicates otherwise. AWC Poland is considering...
The Mirage of Washington Intelligence
by Jim Bovard | Oct 24, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
“You can send a man to Congress but you can’t make him think,” quipped comedian Milton Berle in the 1950s. To update Berle for our times: You can spend $60 billion a year on intelligence agencies but you can’t make politicians read their reports. Instead, most...
‘Fletch’ Lives in the Courageous Pen of Reporters
by Kym Robinson | Oct 17, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
“I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.”- Irwin Fletcher In the post-Watergate world, fiction was full of lone wolf reporters, the courageous typewriter and camera that pointed where it was...
‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ Still Sanitizes the Vietnam War for American Audiences
by John Weeks | Oct 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
Hollywood filmmakers are adept at selling us goods and services. The industry has developed product placement (or “brand integration”) into a filming technique as impressive as its cinematography and sound design. Director Peter Farrelly’s new film, The Greatest Beer...
News Roundup 9/20/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 20, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping review of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after social media sites removed fake accounts that were suspected of being linked to the US military, The Washington Post reported on Monday. AWC According to the...
Chilean Lessons for the American People
by Jacob Hornberger | Sep 19, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a nationwide vote, Chilean voters recently rejected a new constitution that was being proposed to them. The rejection was surprising because Chileans had previously voted in favor of having a new constitution to replace the constitution put into place by Chilean...
White House Making Quiet Effort to Close America’s Infamous Torture Prison
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 18, 2022 | News
President Joe Biden pushed behind the scenes throughout the first year of his administration to close the Guantanamo Bay torture prison, the Wall Street Journal reports. Established in US-occupied Cuba under the George W. Bush presidency, Gitmo has a cruel legacy of America carrying out barbaric interrogation methods on mostly innocent people.
White House Approves Over $1 Billion in Military Aid to Egypt Despite Human Rights Abuses
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Sep 15, 2022 | News
The White House on Wednesday announced it would send over $1 billion in security assistance to Egypt. The Joe Biden administration approved the aid as several top Democratic lawmakers pushed to reduce security assistance for Egypt by $300 million. While Egyptian...
News Roundup 9/4/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 4, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Navy is attempting to solve its recruitment problem by promoting its esports team and streaming on Twitch. Task and Purpose Greece Turkey warned Greece against deploying more military assets to the Aegean Sea. UPI Russia The Joe Biden administration...
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Black History Month?
If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he'd be right -- for a racist qua racist need not bear ill will toward a particular group. What makes someone a racist is the very...
ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
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