by Corbett | Dec 20, 2011 | Interviews
Justin Burke, Managing Editor of the Eppy Award-winning Central Asia news website Eurasianet.org, joins us to discuss the importance of Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan to NATO’s supply chain for Afghanistan, its role in the Northern Distribution Network, and why it...
by Corbett | Dec 19, 2011 | Videos
Korean media is reporting that Kim Jong-il died earlier today, although there has been speculation that he has in fact been dead for some time. Whatever the case, this change in dictator/figureheads represents a moment of unease in East Asia as no one knows exactly...
by Corbett | Dec 16, 2011 | Interviews
Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO International joins us to discuss the scandal of the Manas Air Base, a facility in Kyrgyzstan that has been strategically important for the US in staging and transportation to supply its decade-long occupation of Afghanistan. We discuss the...
by Corbett | Dec 13, 2011 | Interviews
Today we talk to former US Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney about AFRICOM, the US military’s African Command, and its ostensible mandate to foster “security cooperation” between the US and Africa. We discuss what AFRICOM is...
by Corbett | Dec 13, 2011 | Videos
[NOTE: CLICK HERE to watch the full report on BoilingFrogsPost.com] by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com 13 December, 2011 The large, sparsely-populated nation of Kazakhstan has become in recent years the poster child of a new type of geopolitics: only celebrating...