The Senator has a new piece in the National Interest about Biden's chance to make things less-worse and Blinken and company's determination to continue being horrible on everything. Dear Rand, we like it when you're good on things. Thanks!
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Directed by Gus Cantavero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wx-8VLtQ0c&list=PLq2qhcVwTVJRQuCWXMVUM8SG2qYDFoPZA&index=6
Hassan El-Tayyab discusses the great news out of Washington last week: the Biden administration has announced an end to all support for Saudi offensive operations in Yemen, and is appointing an envoy to help negotiate a peace deal. This is a great victory for all the grassroots peace activists who have worked tirelessly over the last few years to put an end to the world's worst humanitarian crisis. But there is still work to be done—the Trump administration's designation of the Houthis as a terrorist group is making it nearly impossible for aid organizations to send assistance to the people...
Scott talks to Lyle Goldstein about the U.S.-Russia relationship and the future of global nuclear arms negotiations. Goldstein says that after the Cold War, the world's nuclear weapon situation was mostly under control—as a result, people today have forgotten how dangerous these weapons are, as evidenced by the American government's willingness to let old treaties lapse. Today, explains Goldstein, there's almost nothing preventing another buildup and proliferation of nuclear weapons. Given the risks to our very existence on this planet, Goldstein stresses that getting along peaceably with...
Directed by Gus Cantavero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K58D_LXD07Q&list=PLq2qhcVwTVJRQuCWXMVUM8SG2qYDFoPZA&index=5
Scott interviews Bette Dam about her reporting on the war in Afghanistan. Dam explains how faulty intelligence about enemy "combatants" has led to many unjustified killings, notably the war crimes by Australian special forces in Oruzgan Province in recent years. In such cases, the "Taliban" label can be used to justify the killing of any fighting-age male, even when many of these are innocent civilians. But of course even calling them Taliban is begging the question of who our enemy is. It was al Qaeda, as Scott points out, who attacked the U.S. on 9/11, and America basically wiped them all...
