Conflicts of Interest: Turkey’s Military Operations in Iraq and Syria
June 6, 2022
On COI #282, Kyle Anzalone breaks down news from the Middle East and Africa. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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The Woes of Empire: New Book on General Smedley Butler
June 5, 2022
There are aspects of every country’s history that few are proud of. What normally happens is that these aspects get forgotten, undeservedly so. When the US became an empire in 1898, a series of tragic events were set into motion; events we are still living with. The stories of US interventions in China, Philippines, Mexico, […]
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Gina Haspel Watched the Waterboarding at CIA ‘Black Site’
June 5, 2022
It still makes me sick to my stomach – this time the sworn testimony of CIA contract psychologist/torturer James Mitchell that Gina Haspel was watching as he and psychologist/torturer colleague John Bruce Jessen waterboarded Saudi captive Ab al-Rahim al-Nashiri in Thailand. For services performed (and obfuscated), Haspel passed muster in the Senate and was confirmed […]
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Conflicts of Interest: America Is on the Highway to Great Power Wars
June 5, 2022
On COI #281, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the Democrats’ lockstep anti-Russia hawkishness, the Blob’s refusal to hit the brakes, and the next target: China. Connor breaks down hist latest column for the Libertarian Institute, the article discusses the Washington Blob’s insistence that Moscow’s repeated warnings regarding NATO’s proxy war potentially turning nuclear soon […]
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Ray McGovern: Outright Flummoxed ‘Splaining US-China Policy
June 3, 2022
I flunked miserably yesterday when asked to explain what this current generation’s “Best and Brightest” think they are doing in messing with the One-China policy that has kept the peace for 50 years. We led off with Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei; Duckworth said the purpose was to […]
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Gilbert Doctorow: How the War Will End
June 3, 2022
It has been my rule not to join the vast majority of my fellow political commentators at the scrimmage line in sterile debates of the one subject of the day, week, month that has attracted their full attention. Their debates are sterile because they ignore all but a few parameters of reality in Russia, in […]
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Conflicts of Interest: Con Men Claim Ukraine Is Vital to American Security
June 3, 2022
On COI #280, Kyle Anzalone discusses recent news about a possible war with Russia. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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Not Again! Biden Unveils $700 Million More for Ukraine Weapons!
June 1, 2022
While promising not to send longer-range missiles to Ukraine, President Biden announced that he’s sending longer-range missiles to Ukraine. He also unveiled an additional $700 million in weapons for Ukraine (is this part of the $40 billion…or is that already used up?). Also today: EUROPOL (finally) wakes up to the nightmare of billions in weapons […]
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‘An Unspeakable Crime’
May 31, 2022
Four months ago, two days before the civilized world celebrated one year since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into force on January 22, officials here at the Kansas City National Security Campus hosted a virtual celebration of a different milestone with partners from across the National Nuclear Security Administration and U.S. […]
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Nick Turse: The True Costs of War
May 31, 2022
Originally posted at TomDispatch. For more than 20 years, the civilian casualties of the Global War on Terror have, at best, been nameless, faceless victims to most Americans. They’ve been “30 pine nut farm workers” killed in a 2019 drone strike in Afghanistan or “a woman and child” slain in a similar attack a year […]
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