Trump says Chief of Staff John Kelly will step down at the end of the year. [Link] Trump will nominate William Barr to Attorney General. [Link] Trump wants to increase the Pentagon budget to $750 billion. [Link] Trump nominates Gen Mark Milley to be the next Chairman...
Yemen
It’s Genocide
by Scott Horton | Dec 8, 2018 | Blog
He died. Though his father rushed walking barefoot! To rescue him! Yemeni father Abdu Shuay, walked 2 hours with his son Akil (5 months) in his embrace When they arrived in this local hospital in Yaslem Hajja( north Yemen), Akil died of malnutrition...
Will Paul Ryan and Co. Deny Another Vote on Yemen?
by Norman Singleton | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog
Remember when the House leadership squashed a vote on a resolution ending US involvement in Yemen by removing it’s privileged status? Well, the leaders of that resolution have reintroduced it as H.Con.Res.142 and I just heard from a friend on the Hill that the House...
News Roundup 12/7/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 7, 2018 | News Roundup
At least 45 journalists have been killed for their work in 2018. [Link] Senators are looking to pass a law that punishes companies who support BDS. [Link] The Saudi Ambassador to the US, and the younger brother of MbS, KbS returns to the US. He fled after the...
News Roundup 11/30/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2018 | News Roundup
Three St. Louis police officers were indicted for beating an undercover cop. [Link] Trump and Putin will meet December 1st. [Link] Trump canceled his meeting with Putin. Trump said he was canceling the meeting over Russia’s refusal to release Ukrainian ships and...
FPF #278 – Progress
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF # 278, I discuss a vote advancing to a debate on Senate Joint Resolution 54, a War Powers bill that will end the US support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. The vote passed 63-37, all the nays were Republicans. Saudi Arabia's genocidal war against the people of...
News Roundup 11/29/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 29, 2018 | News Roundup
Julian Assange is living in isolation. [Link] US Air Force General Charles Brown says the US has stopped flying bombers over the Korean Peninsula. [Link] The Israeli military has shot over 6,000 Gazan protesters in the past eight months. [Link] Israel has destroyed 30...
News Roundup 11/28/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 28, 2018 | News Roundup
The FBI has 5,000 active terror investigations. [Link] Russia releases video of Ukrainian sailors admitting they provoked the incident with Russia in the Strait of Kerch. [Link] Trump’s statement on the incident in the Strait of Kerch stops short of condemning Russia....
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Holocaust – On Behalf of Those Who Died Alone
The tubes connected to my arm are melting. I am surrounded by flames moving closer and closer like an angry mob waving torches above their heads. Except there are no people around. I have been yelling for help at the top of my lungs, but no one can hear me. Or if they...
Hey Moe! Hey Larry! Look, It’s the Army Watercraft Circus!
Not only can they not float a portable pier [Gaza] (at a cool burn rate of 335 million debt-bucks) but they can't maintain an aging fleet of maritime connectors. The Army continues to trip over itself in most missions. Maybe they could reach zero by 2028 in the...
The US Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Contemporary Military Incompetence
The six-thousand-ton INS Arihant sank in 2017 and remained out of service at the docks while the water was pumped out, and the pipes replaced. The entire process took ten months. Imagine not only not having the sea sense to seal your boat before diving but having no...
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...
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