The US military is moving weapons into Ukraine at breakneck speed, with officials saying arms transfers have “never been done that fast before” as Washington supplies hundreds of millions of dollars in lethal aid to repel Russia’s ongoing invasion.
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 7, 2022 | News Roundup
The US military is moving weapons into Ukraine at breakneck speed, with officials saying arms transfers have “never been done that fast before” as Washington supplies hundreds of millions of dollars in lethal aid to repel Russia’s ongoing invasion.
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 7, 2022 | News Roundup
A potential sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey would be consistent with US policy objectives, the State Department told lawmakers in a letter, months after Ankara asked to purchase dozens of warplanes and upgrade kits.
by Kym Robinson | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the height of the late Cold War period, Andrew Cockburn wrote The Threat, a book that explored the bear cave of assumed Soviet military dominance. Challenging the narrative of Soviet supremacy—the belief that the Red Bear not only had greater numbers in their favor...
by William Anderson | Apr 6, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
One of the saddest quotes from the Vietnam War came from journalist Peter Arnett, who wrote in a dispatch in 1968 about an American attack on a Vietcong-held village: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” As often happens with such quotes, they take on...
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 5, 2022 | News Roundup
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds on and the two sides continue negotiations, the Washington Post reports that some NATO states prefer Ukrainians continue “fighting and dying” over “a peace that comes too early,” rejecting any outcome that could be sold as a “victory” for Moscow.
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 5, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Congress will likely increase the $813 billion budget proposed by the White House. [Link] The US scratches a planned test of its ICBM. [Link] Russia The USS Truman’s deployment was extended. [Link] Zelensky fired two top officials and called them traitors....
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 5, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
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by Connor Freeman | Apr 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the world today, the war in Ukraine is the worst thing happening, right? Not really, that would actually be Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest nation. In the Yemen war, now beginning its eighth year, Washington and its satellites Riyadh and Abu...
Myth 1. It's "precision bombing" Myth 2. Drone warfare is ethical Myth 3. If the war is legal so is the weapon Myth 4. Drones are a triumph of technology Myth 5. Drones are effective Aerial bombardment has not created peaceful states, nor defeated IS, nor stopped the...
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SAN DIEGO— Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study. The preliminary results from the 2021 National Firearms Survey, designed by Deborah Azrael of the...
Pharmaceutical rape = forcing people to ingest foreign substances against their will. Coercing people to accept injections which they neither want nor need is like a holding a gun to a woman's head and "asking" her to have sex....
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"Speculation over Afghanistan's potential mineral wealth is just that--speculation. What we do know about the hard reality of the country's geography, infrastructure and development profile readily explains why we're still talking about Afghan mineral wealth in the...
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