See, they're not a sovereign nation so it's OK to bomb and kill them. Kind of how the USG treats every other country, yanno?

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies...

You can't kill the devil with his own pitchfork.

But the round they made for it is a winner:

In 2015, SCO realized that the HVP, originally conceived as a specialized shell of the railgun, was just as effective when fired from a conventional powder cannons like the Army’s 105mm and 155mm M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzers and the Navy’s deck-mounted Mk 45 5-inch guns. A May 2016 report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment found that large caliber guns could fire an HVP between 10 and 30 nautical miles at Mach 3, faster than conventional unguided rounds.

Just wait until it gets miniaturized into an AT rifle round. No armor will be safe.

With a shitcoin called the 'Petro'.

instead of a cryptocurrency, perhaps Maduro meant to unveil the world's first kleptocurrency instead?

Supposedly a big pow-wow in July told him of all the glorious fruits of empire. I'm sure they neglected to point out that the Cost pro-rated across taxpayers exceeds their gross margins, which would make any competent businessman cringe. Nevermind the fact that the NPV of the empire is negative. The only appeal that can be made is "hey did you know you are immune to insider trading laws like congress???"

Scott Horton explodes a virulent statist myth:

That’s why they couldn’t tell us: because their claims could not bear scrutiny. Because they were lies.

Abandon your false premise that the people who run the U.S. government care about you or this country any more than their sometimes-ally Ayman al Zawahiri does. They don’t.

Existing anti-missile systems almost never stop the warhead; rather they destroy the tube, which is no comfort to those who have the warhead dropped on them.

Saleh smoked by the Houthi within hours of flipping to Saudi. Sounds like they've got full control now; I assume nobody helped Saleh due to internal military intrigue combined with most of the people of Yemen hating Saudi 1000% at the moment for a variety of good reasons.

Considering the real story was about support for Israel, I hope the hashtag becomes #FakeJews

Apparently it can be prescribed with no problems. I'm guessing they heavily bribed the DEA.

"B..But we have no replacement that is as effective at killing civilians and causing collateral damage!"

Sounds like the Israelis are attempting to provoke a war with Assad, but don't want it to look like they shot first.

They even fucked up the root exploit patch.

I'm totally a puritan and am going to try to ban porn. Ignore the fact that my love life is literally a porn genre.

Of course, since they are "just a little more progressive, y'know" over there, the author devotes most of the article (after making the good point up front) to saying "golly gee it sure would be nice if we sent those Kurds some more 'Murica guns."

Sounds like they plan to fall back to Libya and give up on Syria and Iraq at this point.

Apparently the Russian that Flynn contacted was Sergey Kislyak, the a Russian Ambassador in DC at the time. Not sure it can stretch to a treason charge to talk to a diplomat, although lying to the FBI is definitely illegal. Anyways, the conversation Flynn and Kislyak had was about whether or not to condemn the latest Israeli settlements in Palestine. Trump wanted Russia on board to kill the vote (and hook up Kushner).

As far as "the real story" goes, however, the bit about Flynn getting paid 530k by an Erdogan associate to investigate Fetullah Gulen is likely what concerns Mueller more, as anyone investigating Gulen has a risk of stumbling on to the same things Sibel Edmonds did. If you'll recall, Mueller was the FBI chief at the time Edmonds blew the whistle on the FBI for covering up money laundering through Gulen-linked charities which wound up funding 9/11 hijacker prep.

"Clear, Hold and Build" is more accurately translated as "CLEANSE! PURGE! KILL!"

Bullish

If you are going to do that, why not start with Alcohol users instead? Drunks with a gun have proven to be far more dangerous than folks high on weed, if I recall correctly. Regardless, banning guns for any reason is stupid, as it never solves the problem they set out to solve (unless the problem is proles being able to resist your despotic regime -- for that it works wonders).

In case you may be wondering how this gets shared by torrent, basically joining the "Feen Torrents" club will get it for you, as I noticed it showed up recently in my archive of FeenTorrents.

I think this is the Fed’s real conundrum this late in a business cycle. If the economy is running solidly and leading economic indicators are bullish, the Fed is hard-pressed to not raise rates in an environment in which headline unemployment is low and falling, asset prices are rich, and lending standards have loosened — even if the yield curve is flattening. Aren’t they supposed to take the punch bowl away?

I don’t have the answer to that question. Time and again, late in the cycle, the Fed has indeed taken the punch bowl away. And the result was recession and financial crisis.

That’s exactly why this is the most dangerous period in the business cycle

...Or you could just END THE FED and not have to worry about this BS ever again.

Nothing really interesting.

Funding Jihadis, of course, would be "the Usual."

Actual debunking of war lies. Never thought I'd see it from the Slimes. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising to see them having an article by a Reason columnist on the same day (admittedly not as good as the war lie debunker, but hey...)