Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Islamic State Near Collapse?

That’s what this headline implies. The truth is a little less dramatic: Raqqa is on the edge of full liberation and the Islamic State is in retreat everywhere else. Static lines of control that held for months in northern Raqqa … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 22, 2017

Welcome to the first LinkSwarm of fall! Between a new job, car trouble, dog trouble and iPhone updates, you’re lucky there’s a LinkSwarm at all! Final total for J.J. Watt’s YouCaring campaign: $37,131,967. Death toll in the Mexico City earthquake … Continue reading →

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Possible Conflict Between Assad/Russia and SDF/U.S. Brewing?

Remember how a month ago how almost all the different Syrian factions were concentrating on crushing the last remnants of the Islamic State? Good times, good times. Well the good times may be over, as Russian and Syrian forces launched … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 15, 2017

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! Cleanup from Harvey and Irma continues apace, and there was another London jihad terror attack. Bomb attack on a London tube train injuries 20, but no reported deaths. “Officers believe that the blast … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 8, 2017

It would be swell if I could stop leading the LinkSwarm off with hurricane-related news, but Irma is now a class five hurricane headed straight at Florida. If you’re in any evacuation zones, heed authorities, as this does not look … Continue reading →

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Israeli Strike On Syrian Chemical Weapons Facility Confirmed

Looks like we have confirmation of Israel’s strike on the Masyaf chemical weapons facility: The Syrian army says Israeli jets have attacked a site in the west of the country where Western powers suspect chemical weapons are being produced. An … Continue reading →

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Did Israel Just Bomb a Syrian Chemical Weapons Plant?

Seeing assertions of an Israeli strike on a Syrian chemical weapons plant in Masyaf, Hama this from random people on Twitter: #Israel has destroyed #Syria's Al-Tala'i facility – linked to SSRC chemical weapons program – in air strikes east of … Continue reading →

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Islamic State War Update: Deir ez-Zor Relieved, Raqqa Crumbling, Tal Afar Captured

Before we turn our attention to North Korea, there’s still the war against the Islamic State to be won. And there’s lots of significant news there. First, Syrian government forces have just relieved the Islamic State’s three year siege of … Continue reading →

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“The War George W. Bush Had Won, Barack Obama Had Lost”

This video is an antidote to the widespread revisionism that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a debacle from beginning to end and that George W. Bush was responsible for the rise of the Islamic State. One can question the … Continue reading →

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Battle of Raqqa Grinds On

News from the Battle of Raqqa is hard to come by. U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have reportedly linked up to completely surround Islamic State forces. The Islamic State had already been surrounded on land, but their access to a small … Continue reading →

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