Saudi Arabia’s oil production facilities were attacked by drone strikes from an unknown attacker. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have done the strike, but some question this story. American intelligence points the finger at Iran, while some suggest this is a false...
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News Roundup 9/16/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 16, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Twitter restores some of the blocked accounts of Cuban officials. [Link] Trump is planning to meet with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in at the UN in September. Trump said he is open to meet with Kim Jong-un again. [Link] The US sails warships through the South...
9/9/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the Ongoing War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee is back with an update from Yemen, where civilian casualties resulting from the Saudi-led war there have climbed past 100,000, by even conservative estimates. This number doesn't include any of the people who have died from malnutrition and easily...
Saudis ‘Unaware’ Bombed Yemen Prison Held Prisoners
by Jason Ditz | Sep 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
By Jason Ditz On Sunday, Saudi warplanes attacked and destroyed a prison in the Yemeni city of Dhamar, killing an estimated 130 prisoners. Saudi officials are now saying they had no idea that the prison held any prisoners, nor had they added the prison to the “no...
9/6/19 Giorgio Cafiero on Israel’s Attacks on Iraq and the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 9, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Giorgio Cafiero comes back on the show to talk about how the utter disaster of America and its allies' policies in the Middle East for the last 20 years. It seems like at every turn America's wars—ostensibly undertaken to make the region free of terrorism and safe for...
News Roundup 9/9/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 9, 2019 | News Roundup
US News The Philadelphia District Attorney has exonerated nine people in 19 months. [Link] Russia Ukraine and Russia swap dozens of prisoners. [Link] Afghanistan The Taliban kidnapped six journalists. [Link] Trump says he canceled planned talks with the Taliban...
News Roundup 9/4/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 4, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Activists look to push Democrats to hold Israel and ICE to the same standards on family separation. [Link] Iran France is working on a proposal to Iran that would offer Iran a $15 billion line of credit if Iran returns to compliance with the nuclear agreement....
A New Proxy War In Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 4, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #394, I cover several essential stories. The protests in Hong Kong continue, and the Western media continues with its biased coverage. Groups of protesters continue to act violently; however, only the violence from the police is ever discussed. Hezbollah has...
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Rust-Bucket Life Extension for the Win
Ticonderoga Class Arleigh Burke Class It seems counterintuitive but keeping old ships commissioned is expensive. Expertise on the hulls ages out and retires, technology moves on and maintenance demands increase and don't decrease. These life extensions are random and...
Censorship Down Under
The Australian parliament pushes through a bill that will now control access to social media. Like most censorship and prohibition acts it is done under the guise of child protection, the fear mongering used has been constant. Children can be groomed, manipulated and...
Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
The populist Sanders-left (which is actually broader because it includes Tucker Carlson and others called rightists) is partly correct and partly incorrect about what happened to the Democrats last Tuesday. They say correctly that the Democrats failed because they...
Bang for your Buck: Fraud, Waste and Abuse as a Lifestyle Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJ0kg9xvLs I don't agree with everything he says and he gets technical details wrong like "...these destroyer class ships, probably doing the same thing the submarine does." No, but that's OK. One thing that is always missed here is...
The Winner Is…
Donald Trump did it, he is the most famous person in the world. His ambitions have been realised. He won and to him that is all that matters. He also just happens to be the next US president, again. Harris was never going to win, she was terrible. She had been the VP...
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Predicts the Death of Zionism
in a recent episode of The Big Picture Podcast hosted by Mohamed Hassan, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why he believes that Israel's genocide in Gaza is the beginning of the end of the Jewish supremacist state enforcing an apartheid regime in Palestine from...
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