On this COI, Matteo Marchionni - host of the Neutral Partisan Report - returns to the show to review the new Netflix documentary Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror. Matteo and host Kyle Anzalone break down highlights from each episode. The documentary reveals a...
Annelle Sheline comments on the passage of Rep. Ro Khanna’s amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would cut off all assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war on Yemen:The House voted today to pass Rep. Ro Khanna’s amendment to end US support for Saudi...
Last week, The New York Times published an article about Afghanistan and the foreign policy “Blob,” and it was written in a way that mocked the term and the critics that use it. The funny thing is that the article reproduced exactly the sort of groupthink and...
On COI #163, Matthew Hoh joins Kyle Anzalone to discuss the villains of the Afghan War. Hundreds of members of Congress helped to keep the conflict going, but Matt names some of the worst offenders. He shares personal stories about reps who used their support for the...
Key votes in the U.S. House of Representatives on proposals to repeal (unlikely), expand to women (most likely), or eliminate some of the penalties for violations of the Military Selective Service Act will take place this week as part of the debate on this year’s...
The moment of ending a war widely viewed as a 20-year catastrophe, having spent $21 trillion on militarism during those 20 years, and the moment when the biggest Congressional question in the media is whether the United States can afford $3.5 trillion over 10 years...
Reprinted with permission from Responsible Statecraft:A year into the Abraham Accords, it is clear that the agreement has only delivered arms sales, but no peace. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to deteriorate, de facto annexation of Palestinian territory...
A recent New York Timesop-ed was perhaps the strangest, most awkward and tentative defense of the military-industrial complex – excuse me, the experiment in democracy called America – I've ever encountered, and begs to be addressed.The writer, Andrew Exum,...
On COI #162, Scott Spaulding – an Iraq and Afghan combat vet who hosts the ‘Why I’m Antiwar’ podcast – returns to the show to discuss the villains of the Afghan War. Scott explains how American culture was infected with bloodlust by the Pentagon’s post-9/11 PR...
Ross Douthat sums up the thesis of Elbridge Colby’s book, Strategy of Denial:Only China threatens American interests in a profound way, through a consolidation of economic power in Asia that imperils our prosperity and a military defeat that could shatter our alliance...
