How dare you question the propriety of the Vice President's son making $83,000 per month for doing nothing and then spending it all on coke and whores? Maybe that's what he likes to do. You ever think of that?
The excess death rate in the U.S.A. has increased dramatically since the great crash of 2008. This is all because of the federal government. And the next one is coming.
Scott talks to Aaron Maté about the role John Brennan and the CIA might have played in the investigation into Trump's ties to Russia during the 2016 election. Although Maté is a progressive, he understands how dangerous it is to have intelligence agencies with the power to overturn the results of a democratic election. In fact, this is no different than what our CIA has done in lots of other countries when America supports a regime change in favor of democracy, but then the people of that country elect someone our government doesn't like. Maté recognizes what a dangerous precedent this sets...
Doug Bandow explains why the pathological need for neocons and neoliberals in Washington to antagonize other powerful countries is so dangerous for America. Russia and China, he says, can both be our allies. It makes no sense for the U.S. military to be involved in every conflict everywhere in the world, and pretending to be the world empire will only endanger American interests by making future conflicts more likely. Discussed on the show: "Why The Hawks Are Wrong About China Too" (The American Conservative) "The Berlin Wall: Its Rise, Fall, and Legacy" (Foundation for Economic Education)...
Michael Boldin describes the appalling state of an American government that has strayed so far from its founding principles as codified by the constitution. Today the federal government wields so much power over every aspect of our lives that the only rational choice is to seize as much control as possible while your party is winning, and then hope that your opponents don't abuse that same power too much while they are. Tom Woods calls this a perpetual low-grade civil war. The alternative, which our founders envisioned and which Boldin still feels is possible, is leaving as much as we can up...
Danny Sjursen talks about the ways his experience in Iraq convinced him of the futility of that war, allowing him to see things that the generals and the war planners often could not. Sjursen says that not all officers paid attention to the local situation or to the people their units were supposed to be working with. Failure to do so led to far greater casualties, among both American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. Sadly the generals and politicians still seem unable or unwilling to learn the lessons of the past, and thus will be doomed to repeat the same mistakes. Discussed on the show:...
I guess we can expect to see massive congressional hearings and major media attention to this huge new breaking story. </sarc>
That's at 8:30 Pacific on 90.7 FM, KPFK in Los Angeles kpfk.org.
