Her mom could have brought her home but thought the government would take good good care of her. Now she's dead.
11/11/20 Danny Sjursen on the Profitable Post-Military Careers of his Afghanistan Commanders
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about where his former commanders from Afghanistan have ended up in the years since the surge. Sjursen goes through a handful of these men: almost without fail, his former generals have ended up with profitable jobs in the arms industry or at hawkish think tanks, and his colonels have been promoted to take the place of those retired generals—and will surely join them in the private sector soon enough. The fact that none of this surprises us should be a reminder of just how corrupt America's military-industrial complex is. A path to a six- or seven-figure salary...
The Great Dave Smith on The Joe Rogan Experience
Great stuff in here. Especially on Yemen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PrLGhJnO7I Who's that great libertarian's favorite Institute?
11/11/20 David Swanson: Leaving World War II Behind
Scott interviews author and peace activist David Swanson in honor of Veterans' Day, or Armistice Day, as it was originally known. Swanson begins by describing the way World War II has become the justification for just about every use of military force by the United States since then. This particular part of American history has made an impression on many people that war can be necessary and good, and that America can be the world's police force. In a new book, Swanson tries to shift that conversation, both taking his readers back to the circumstances that gave rise to World War II, and also...
11/6/20 Dave DeCamp on the Foreign Policy of a Biden Administration
With Joe Biden apparently poised to be America's next president, Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about some possible foreign policy changes under the new administration. To begin with, DeCamp worries that Biden will use a recent uptick in violence as an excuse to keep American troops in Afghanistan indefinitely, basically the strategy he advocated as Vice President. On Israel, DeCamp says that Biden was known as one of the strongest zionists in Washington until Trump showed up, and so we can expect very little positive change on that front either. Finally, Scott and DeCamp discuss the conflict in...
W. Bush Congratulates His Iraq War II Partner Joe Biden
Bush congratulates Biden, says election was 'fundamentally fair' and 'its outcome is clear' That's what makes it legitimate you see.
11/6/20 Jeff Deist on the Cancerous Growth of America’s Federal Government
Jeff Deist discusses the idea that the best path forward for America may be some kind of peaceful breakup. He reminds us that America has never truly been one country, the way that, for instance, many small European nations are—and indeed the United States was never really supposed to be a single unified monolith. With such a diversity of culture over such a huge geographical area, a federal government was meant to serve a very limited purpose while leaving most decisions up to the individual states. Deist and Scott see today's culture war as a symptom of an unhealthy and unconstitutional...
Cops Kill Man
Suffocated him to death George Floyd-Elijah McClain-style.