Troops deployed to the southern border are living in poor conditions. [Link] A ceasefire takes hold in Gaza. [Link] Israel’s Defense Minister resigns over the Israeli government's accepting a ceasefire with Hamas. [Link] US airstrikes kill at least 22 Syrian...
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News Roundup 11/14/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 14, 2018 | News Roundup
The DEA and ICE use hidden cameras in traffic cones and street lights to surveil Americans. [Link] James Carroll explains why the INF Treaty is extremely important. [Link] Spain is forcing Catalan leaders to pay over $5 million. [Link] EU countries approved over $85...
FPF #270 – Veterans Day
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 12, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #270, I discuss how Veterans Day is used to celebrate war. Veterans Day started as Armistice Day to celebrate the end of WWI. I argue Veterans Day has become a day to promote wars and is not about helping vets. I update the US role in the War in Yemen. The US...
11/11/18 Andrea Carboni on an Accurate Estimate of the Death Toll in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Nov 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Andrea Carboni from ACLED Data comes on the show to talk about their casualty estimates for the war in Yemen. "10,000" is the number that has been used for the last few years, but that's exactly why it can't possibly be right. ACLED estimates that there have actually...
11/9/18 Hassan El-Tayyab on Efforts to Stop the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Nov 10, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Hassan El-Tayyab talks about various movements to stop the U.S.-backed war in Yemen, and what we can all do to help. Tayyab explains that millions of civilians there are on the brink of the worst famine in 100 years. So far political will has not really been behind...
News Roundup 11/8/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 8, 2018 | News Roundup
Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns. [Link] The State Department announces new sanctions will be imposed on Russia. The sanctions are to punish Russia over the alleged chemical weapons attack on the Skripals. [Link] The US threatens to sanction any port that allows...
11/5/18 Scott Paul on Yemen
by Scott Horton | Nov 7, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott Paul joins the show to talk about recent developments in the war in Yemen, where new casualty estimates claim at least 50,000 deaths just from direct violence. Oxfam estimates that the there are over 100 additional deaths from cholera and deprivation per day,...
11/4/18 Nasser Arrabyee With an Update on the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Nov 4, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Frequent Scott Horton Show guest Nasser Arrabyee comes back for an update on the current situation in Yemen. He explains that Coalition goals there simply can't be realized, and that the U.S. should just end its support for the Saudis as soon as possible. If America...
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Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov
I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...
NZ Ocean Floor Survey Naval Vessel Runs Aground Off Samoa
That New Zealand naval ship that ran aground, foundered, caught fire and capsized with the DEI Captain commanding was an ocean survey and mapping ship. HMNZS Manawanui was a dive and hydrographic vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). It was one of five vessels...
The Carrier as Reef Complex: World’s Most Expensive Fish Apartments
*** I have returned from a long sojourn with my wife to Croatia and will be writing more regularly and trying to address issues arising more contemporaneously than the previous month. We were delayed in returning by Hurricane Milton but finally managed to get home:...
The Soul of a Socialist
From the pen of H. G. Wells (1908), socialist: War is a collective concern; to turn one’s back upon it, to refuse to consider it as a possibility, is to leave it entirely to those who are least prepared to deal with it in a broad spirit. In many ways war is the most...
Watch ‘Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells Its Destruction Of Gaza’
This new documentary exposes how hoax claims about Hamas’s 10/7 operation have been used to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
On “Election Integrity”
The government openly claims the right to control everyday decisions millions of people make with taxes and regulations. Why would they have some exception for who gets to run for (or be elected) President of the United States? The same deep state Domestic Imperialist...
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