Trump is expected to sign the FAA Reauthorization bill on Friday. [Link] In a letter to Senator Kaine, the Pentagon claims to have the authority to conduct near limitless military actions. [Link] The US pulls out of international agreements to avoid being subject to...
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10/3/18 William Hartung on Trump’s Space Force
by Scott Horton | Oct 4, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
William Hartung joins the show to give his views on President Trump's proposed Space Force. He explains that American satellites are in fact vulnerable to attack by foreign powers, but that a space force is a highly impracticable approach to protecting them, and one...
News Roundup 10/4/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 4, 2018 | News Roundup
Patrick Cockburn: With ISIS Defeated, Trump is now Targeting Iran The UN high court rules the US must lift some sanctions against Iran. In response, the US withdrew from a 1955 treaty with Iran. The US claims that leaving the treaty invalidates the court's ruling....
News Roundup 10/3/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 3, 2018 | News Roundup
The US Envoy to NATO threatens to destroy Russian missiles the US considers in violation of the INF Treaty. [Link] The Envoy walked back the threat on Twitter. [Link] France is accusing Iran of plotting a bombing against an Iran separatists group's rally in Frane....
News Roundup 10/2/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 2, 2018 | News Roundup
Eric Margolis gives his take on Trump's UN speech. [Link] A US Navy destroyer and a Chinese Navy ship had a close encounter in the South China Sea. [Link] North Korea needs to see goodwill moves from the US for North Korea to denuclearize. [Link] A US airstrike kills...
Peaceful Means Are Important For Victims Of Empire, Too
by Zack Sorenson | Sep 30, 2018 | Blog
What do we make of the Iranian Navy flexing its muscles in the Strait of Hormuz? I have a somewhat unique perspective within Libertarianism. I'm anti-war - okay that's not special - and anti-empire - that's hardly at all special. However, I'm a proponent of peace,...
9/24/18 Rajan Menon on the Yemeni War
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Rajan Menon, Professor of International Relations at CCNY and Senior Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University and author of "The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention," is on the show to talk about the Yemeni War. Menon...
News Roundup 9/27/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 27, 2018 | News Roundup
The FED raises interest rates .25%. [Link] Trump claims China ran a propaganda ad in a US newspaper. [Link] A new AUMF is not enough to end the endless wars. [Link] The US accuses China of waging a broad malign influence campaign. [Link] The US flies B-52 bombers near...
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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...
Blaming Freedom
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
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