The US intelligence budget increased 11.6% this year. [Link] The brother of the king of Saudi Arabia returns to Saudi Arabia. [Link] Turkey claims Jamal Khashoggi was stranged as soon as he entered the consulate. [Link] Republican Senators tell Trump to suspend...
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News Roundup 10/31/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 31, 2018 | News Roundup
A new report calls for a massive buildup in America's Navy. [Link] A weapons maker will pay the US government $3.5 million after selling the military substandard parts. [Link] The Pentagon announces an additional 5,200 troops will be deployed to the southern border....
FPF #264 – Yemen Numbers
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 29, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #264, I discuss some new casualty numbers for the War on Yemen. The media has long cited a UN estimate that said 10,000 people have died. However, that estimate stopped counting deaths over a year ago. The 10,000 number has helped mask the...
News Roundup 10/29/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 29, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump says he will order 800 troops to the southern border to stop migrants. [Link] The Pentagon will deploy helicopters, engineers, and medics. [Link] The Pentagon grounds 24 F-35s over fuel system concerns. [Link] Col. Douglas Macgregor explains how Trump is dealing...
The US-Saudi Genocide in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog
The New York Times finally gets around to mentioning the "price" Yemeni civilians are paying in the war -- only to blame it all on Saudi, and the Houthis, of course.
New Roundup 10/26/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 26, 2018 | News Roundup
Russia is likely developing a new anti-satellite missile. It is expected to be completed by 2022. [Link] China threatens military action to prevent Taiwan from splitting with China. [Link] Saudi Arabia says the murder of Khashoggi was premeditated. [Link] US arms...
News Roundup 10/23/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 23, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump suggests the US may withdraw from the INF Treaty with Russia. [Link] National Security Adviser John Bolton calls for the US to withdraw from the INF Treaty. [Link] Trump threatens to increase the size of the US nuclear weapons arsenal until other nations come to...
10/20/18 Martha Mundy Gives an Update on Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 22, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Martha Mundy talks about the ongoing war in Yemen, with a particular focus on some of the more barbaric Coalition tactics, including the deliberate bombing of humanitarian and agricultural targets. Scott explains some of the United States and IMF policies that led to...
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Interview: Julian Assange Freed + Palestine’s Ancient History
Mike Leavitt and I discuss the US government’s criminalization of journalism and the pre-Israel history of Palestine.
They Will Want Boys and Men again… Anti-War Blog
The war pigs mount one another in squeals calling for blood as the drums of death beat to their cries. They want your boys and men...again. As war looms and imperial ambitions swell, the non-binary, obese, depressed, expecting mothers (or baby carrying persons) and...
Military Education and the Zampolit Parade Through the Institutions
The professional military education systems and the academies have been captured by the Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) zampolit cadres in a detailed and comprehensive way. In the military a zampolit is a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a...
Regime Apologists Continue to Insist the Carrier is Useful
They misspelled disposable. There is nothing hard to target about a very large ship traveling at very large ship speeds with very large wakes in the modern era by air breathing and non-air breathing detection assets. What this means is that all the carriers deployed...
The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon
The "mission capable rate" of these F35s is simply appalling. 23 years in and it still doesn't work. 23 years. And Congress won't kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper. The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine...
“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck…”
Hot garbage on the wing. The pursuit of US and Western air dominance is a pipe dream but a fever dream for the military industrial complex. The existential failure of this fighter program has been stunning to behold. The days of manned fighter aircraft are numbered in...
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