I’m a fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). For those unaware, this is the most dominant mixed martial arts (MMA) organization in the world. They put on fantastic pay-per-views at least once a month where fighters put every part of their being out there to...
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9/5/24 James Carden on the Afghanistan Withdrawal and Kamala Harris’ Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | Sep 10, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews James Carden about two articles he wrote recently. The first looks back at the war in Afghanistan. He and Scott talk about how Obama immediately went the wrong direction with the war, how Trump had some good instincts but was...
9/5/24 Daniel Davis on Ukraine’s Reckless Incursion into Russia
by Scott Horton | Sep 10, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott brings Daniel Davis on for a short discussion about the Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk region of Russia. They use Davis’s recent interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor to jump into the strategic and tactical ineptitude that Ukraine’s...
Trillions and Trillions! Money for Nothing at the Pentagon
by Bill Buppert | Sep 10, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
On this day in 2001 (the day before the 9/11 attacks), Donald Rumsfeld said this: At the 14:15 mark, Rumsfeld says, “Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. We cannot share information...
Pro-War Lobby Attacks Alleged ‘Russian Influencers’
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Sep 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In recent weeks, there has been a surge of allegations that Moscow has long orchestrated an illegal campaign to influence U.S. public opinion. On September 4, 2024, the U.S. Justice Department charged two Russian media executives with an alleged scheme that...
Fighting the ‘Middle State’
by Brad Pearce | Sep 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
From around the middle of the twentieth century, federal agencies tasked with law enforcement, intelligence gathering, and various types of “defense” have accrued overwhelming power in the United States. Democrats, who now worship such agencies, may wail at the term...
19 Palestinians Reported Killed in Israeli Strikes on al-Mawasi Camp in Gaza
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 10, 2024 | News
At least 19 Palestinians were killed and 60 more injured by Israeli strikes on the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza early Tuesday morning, local health authorities said.
Victoria Nuland Admits US Discouraged Ukraine From Signing Peace Deal With Russia in 2022
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 10, 2024 | News
Former US State Department official Victoria Nuland has acknowledged that the US discouraged Ukraine from signing a peace deal with Russia during the early days of the Russian invasion.
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Israeli War Crimes Documented by the Israeli Defense Forces
There’s no sense denying Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and wanton destruction when its war crimes are documented by its own armed forces.
Government Subsidy of K-PhD: The Suicide Pact of Western Civilization
The German Empire arranged passage for Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, to Russia to try to seize power from the government. They traveled on an armored train through Germany then took a ship to Sweden where...
Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues
I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren't in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers. The DoD has...
Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On
The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...
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