Ray McGovern reflects on the ways America's foreign policy and national security state have changed since his time in the CIA. In particular, he warns that Michael Morell, one of Joe Biden's top picks to head the CIA, is categorically unqualified to do so based on his...
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News Roundup 12/10/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 10, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The Senate voted against two bills that would have blocked arms sales to the UAE. [Link] The US sanctioned three people and three businesses under the Global Magnitsky Act. [Link] The US sanctioned a man they claim to be a Chinese crime boss and three of his...
News Roundup 11/25/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 25, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
US News When announcing his defense team picks, Biden said, “America is back” and “is ready to lead the world.” [Link] Biden picks to be his Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has links to the US torture and drone assassination programs. [Link] Venezuelan...
The Australian Special Forces’ Culture of Death
by Kym Robinson | Nov 20, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Australia has a culture for war, and that culture breeds atrocities. The Australian government's own inquiry has confirmed many of the allegations leaked by journalists regarding war crimes in Afghanistan, stemming from the execution by Australian special forces of...
The False Dichotomy of Voting
by Kollin Fields | Nov 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
A false dichotomy is when one is presented with two options as if those were the only options. American presidential elections present voters with a false dichotomy. This election, we are led to believe that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the only real options for the...
NYPD Values Abusive Cop’s Pension Over Child He Starved and Froze to Death
by Matt Agorist | Oct 30, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
New York, NY — The death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva shocked the nation earlier this year when it was discovered his New York cop father was alleged to have beat him and starved him before throwing him into an unheated garage where he froze to death. As the...
Ten Years Later: What the ‘Iraq War Diaries’ Told Us
by Ron Paul | Oct 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The purpose of journalism is to uncover truth—especially uncomfortable truth—and to publish it for the benefit of society. In a free society, we must be informed of the criminal acts carried out by governments in the name of the people. Throughout history, journalists...
Interview: Learn How Marxist Revolutionaries Massacred Ethiopia’s Christian Monarchy
by David Gornoski | Oct 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“What happened was a catastrophic revolution that really ate its own bright people. The very people who were behind the revolution were the ones who were its victims," Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie has said on the 1974 Marxist revolution that overthrew his grandfather,...
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You don’t need the sun glasses…
It turns out wearing the glasses made no difference. In the John Carpenter film, They Live, our hero John Nada is one in many workers stumbling from hunger to poverty and piece work in an economy that is only built to exploit them. It’s a film both critical of Reagan...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Jim Webb: Trump to Netanyahu: ‘You’re F**king Crazy’
Trump didn’t just get “frustrated” with Netanyahu. He confirmed he told him, “Are you effing crazy,” and that single moment raises a bigger question: if the White House is truly fed up, why does the region still look like it’s sliding toward wider war? Jim Webb joins...
The Other Side of the Slap
I spent a lot of time dealing with the victim of violence. That betrayal only a lover can express, the sinister switch from affection or at least the performance required to invent love, to twist into a tantrum of rage. The bruising and cuts, a secondary blistering to...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Meeting in Situation Room to Decide on Iran Deal
A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,”...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Daniel McAdams: Axios Says US–Iran Deal Reached as U.S. and IRAN Trade Missile Fire
Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is...
To Baptize the State w/John Weeks
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
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