The following is an excerpt from retired Special Forces Warrant Officer Jim “Smokey” West’s upcoming memoir. Learn more about Jim by checking out his website, American Extension Fighting. The village consisted of an adobe, clay, and dirt shanties surrounding the town square. The square had some restaurants around it, all featuring five-star dirt floors. There was […]
One thing that consistently disgusts me is the blatant racist and intolerant attitudes I constantly see and hear in the media. While some commentators take a moderate view, there are many who pander to xenophobic attitudes and preach hate to middle-aged white people who like to hear that kind of crap. We’re told that Islam is […]
Wayne Simmons was probably a useful idiot, but one of his specialities was finding other useful idiots. Some of those tales are just too ticklish to tell.
The SOFREP News Roundup: We say it so you don’t have to.
U.S. Military Commanders Turning Blind Eye to Afghan Child Rape: KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base. “At night we […]
Brett Jones, former SEAL and the only openly gay contractor with the CIA’s GRS, reveals the bigotry he experienced during his time with that organization.
The SOFREP news roundup—America’s cruelest column. This week: recruiting station vigilantes, beta males, Hillary and Trump, and Bowe Bergdahl on a pot farm.
We’ve done 16 weeks straight of bringing you the weekly news, served up with healthy doses of name-calling, sarcasm, and haterade. I’m traveling all this week, so here’s a “best-of” News Roundup edition, featuring some of the stories all of you commented on the most, and some of the ones I enjoyed writing. We’ll be […]
The SOFREP.com weekly news roundup. Take no prisoners. Ok, are you ready? Nah, you’re not ready. What? Really? (sigh..) Remember, you asked for it…
The U.S. government doesn’t have the balls to stand up to China or address incompetence in our own system.
It’s Independence Day. No, not the fourth of July. That’s a date, not a name. The next time someone says, “Happy Fourth!” throw a guillotine choke on them while whispering the Declaration of Independence softly in their ears as you lower them to the ground. Here we are, 239 years after the cisgender slavemasters Founding Fathers […]
Media Losing Minds in Front of Our Eyes: If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture? I’m talking, of course, about “Gone with the Wind,’’ which won a then-record […]
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