Ron and Dan: Can Trump Get Out of Afghanistan?

by | Aug 13, 2019 |

With a peace agreement between the US and the Taliban nearly completed, will President Trump be able to do what his two predecessors were unable to do – end the US military’s 18 year war on Afghanistan? Neocons at home are screaming that we must stay, Trump has promised a departure. And election season is heating up. Watch today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: https://youtu.be/CIPetduXgrQ Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

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8/12/19 Nasser Arrabyee on Saudi War Crimes in Yemen

by | Aug 13, 2019 |

Nasser Arrabyee discusses the latest Saudi war crime against Yemeni civilians, the bombing of a family on the first day of Eid al-Adha. He also gives a summary of the last few months of the horrific war there, replete with complex political nuances that will not be resolved by a simple and total military victory. The war goes on only because the United States government continues to lend material support to the Saudis and will not openly condemn the conflict. Discussed on the show: Nasser Arrabyee on Twitter Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and...

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8/12/19 Jason Ditz with the Latest on Afghanistan

by | Aug 13, 2019 |

Jason Ditz discusses a recent Taliban suicide attack in Kabul and a report finding that about 40,000 soldiers on the books of the Afghan army don't really exist. These so-called "ghost soldiers" often abandon their posts, but army officials don't report it, since it's in their interest to appear to have as many soldiers as possible. Ditz sees this report as a good sign that the government is trying to clean house before a peace deal with the Taliban. He and Scott lament the fact that so few Americans actually understand which sides America supports in which wars—if they did, they would know...

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Booker: ‘I got to the US Senate to stand up for the State of Israel’

by | Aug 13, 2019 |

Asked if PM Netanyahu is a racist, U.S. Senator Cory Booker responded: “You know, what I think very strongly, sir, is that we have a crisis with Israel right now. Israel is less safe under this president than it was before. We literally have a president right now that has allowed Iran to have a superhighway through Syria; that literally announces by tweet that he’ s pulling our troops out which puts Israel more at risk. We have a president who is breaking [the] tradition of Democratic and Republican presidents in the past by turning his back on the commitment to a two-state solution. We have...

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8/9/19 Pete Quinones on Gun Control, Health Care, and the War on Drugs

by | Aug 12, 2019 |

Pete Quinones, formerly Mance Rayder, discusses some of his recent articles for the Libertarian Institute, covering gun control, Trump's election in 2016, and Bernie Sanders' proposed health care laws. After the shootings last week in El Paso and Dayton, many Americans have been calling for stricter gun control laws. Quinones reminds us that anything approaching the full confiscation of guns across the entire country that would be required to actually stop those who are desperate to get a gun from getting one would probably result in open violence between civilians and the police tasked with...

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