Download Episode. Scott is joined by CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou to discuss the recent uptick in deplatforming efforts against alternative media sites like Consortium News and MintPress News. They discuss the hold that the Intelligence Community has over...
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COI #257: DoD Report Indicates US Soldiers Were Involved Torture, Death of Afghan
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #257, Kyle Anzalone discusses a Pentagon report on the death of an Afghan commando. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...
Afghan Translator Alleges American Soldiers Tortured an Afghan Commando Before He Died
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 29, 2022 | News Roundup
A Department of Defense investigation into the death of an Afghan commando includes evidence the man was tortured while in US custody and died hours later. Eight Green Berets received reprimands for their role in the soldier's death. On October 22, 2018, Wahidullah...
News Roundup 3/30/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 29, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Pentagon delays awarding a contract to build a cloud for the Department of Defense until December. [Link] Norwegian soldiers arrive in the US to train with the Minnesota National Guard. [Link] Russia A majority of Americans believe Biden has not been tough...
The Necro-Neologism of Lethal Legal Experts
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
The power of language is magical to behold. Through the mere pronouncement of words, people can be persuaded to do what they would never have thought to do, left to their own devices. The playbook with the most success in this regard is that of war. When people are...
Against Public Interest, Supreme Court Protects Torture Cover-Up
by Jim Bovard | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to...
News Roundup 3/15/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 14, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The UK Supreme Court denies Julian Assange’s request to appeal his extradition to the US. [Link] While at a black site, Ammar al-Baluchi was used by the CIA to train people to torture. Baluchi was slammed into a wall for over two hours so agents could be...
While Condemning Putin, Biden Lavishes Dictators with US-Made Weapons
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 11, 2022 | News Roundup
The US weapons sector had a good day on Thursday, with Senator Rand Paul’s effort to block a $2 billion weapons sale to Egypt rejected in the upper chamber as President Joe Biden doles out ‘major non-NATO ally’ designations to other repressive states.
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What’s Happening w/Buck Johnson
Buck joined me to discuss fentanyl, drug addiction, boomer cons, media treatment of Trump, and what is going right and wrong in the Trump administration. ALP
100 Memers vs One Pamela Anderson
The social media feed gruel has switched it’s serving of slop from the speculation about the potential outcome of one hundred men versus a gorilla. The content creators who recycle the same shit, because of algorithms and trends now concern themselves with the...
Anti-War Blog – Too Thirsty to Cry
In the photo essay, Ethiopia : The Scorched Earth, Mary Anne Fitzgerald writes in the caption beneath a photo of a young girl crying, “Tears of hunger are a good sign. During the final stages of malnutrition children are too weak to cry.” There was Live Aid and U.S.A....
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...
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