8/19/19 Trevor Aaronson on the Case of Hamid Hayat

by | Aug 20, 2019 |

The Intercept's Trevor Aaronson joins the show to talk about the travesty of justice in the trial of Hamid Hayat, who has finally been released after nearly 15 years in prison. Hayat was an alleged terrorist, convicted based on a coerced confession he gave to FBI agents under duress, as well as recordings from his conversations with an FBI informant who had pretended to befriend Hayat's family. Hayat is just one of many such cases of U.S. government entrapment, which make up the majority of supposed terrorism prosecutions. Discussed on the show: "Reporters Questioned His Terror Prosecution....

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8/16/19 Gareth Porter Debunks the Claims of State Election System Hacking

by | Aug 20, 2019 |

Gareth Porter explains why the claim that the Russian government "hacked all 50 U.S. states" is false—namely, the states themselves know that their systems were intact! The narrative has nonetheless been pushed continuously, as democrats try to justify Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss by any means necessary. Discussed on the show: "U.S. States: We Weren’t Hacked by Russians in 2016" (The American Conservative) "Russia Targeted Election Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds" (The New York Times) Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on the national security state, and author...

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8/16/19 John Mueller on Finally Ending the War in Afghanistan

by | Aug 19, 2019 |

Scott interviews Cato's John Mueller about why it's time to leave Afghanistan. Fundamentally, the Taliban cannot be defeated at any remotely acceptable cost of American lives and U.S. dollars, says Mueller, and at the same time military interventions has only made the Al-Qaeda problem—America's original enemies—even worse. Fortunately, it seems like President Trump might see ending the war in Afghanistan as a possible path to reelection. Discussed on the show: "Overcoming Inertia: Why It’s Time to End the War in Afghanistan" (Cato Institute) "Life under the Taliban shadow government"...

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8/16/19 Alan Kuperman on America’s Support for Al-Qaeda in Libya

by | Aug 19, 2019 |

Alan Kuperman explains the true story of the 2011 civil war in Libya, which the United States famously and disastrously supported. Contrary to the narrative that this uprising was started by regular, educated citizens like doctors and lawyers, Kuperman and his research assistants discovered that the key actors fomenting revolution were actually Al-Qaeda veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Kuperman reflects on the dangers of reckless use of American military force throughout the years. Discussed on the show: "America's Little-Known Mission to Support Al Qaeda's Role in Libya" (The National...

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JAMA: Fluoridated Water During Pregnancy Causes Lower IQs

by | Aug 19, 2019 |

You insane conspiracy kooks. -- Uh, I mean the Journal of the American Medical Association: An influential medical journal published a study Monday that links fluoride consumption during pregnancy with lower childhood IQs—a finding that could undermine decades of public-health messaging, fire up conspiracy theorists, and alarm mothers-to-be. The research was expected to be so controversial that JAMA Pediatrics included an editor’s note saying the decision to publish it was not easy and that it was subjected to “additional scrutiny.” “It is the only editor’s note I’ve ever written,” Dimitri...

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8/16/19 Max Blumenthal on Joe Biden’s Catastrophic Record in Latin America

by | Aug 18, 2019 |

Max Blumenthal explains how the policies of the Obama administration, pushed by Joe Biden in particular, have fueled the migration crisis in Latin America we see today. Notably, America gave material support to the Colombian regime that massacred thousands of innocent civilians and dressed them as guerrilla revolutionaries in order to claim they were winning the war, and thereby get more aid from the U.S. Biden also supported brutal regimes in Honduras, El Salvador, and other countries, whose instability have caused millions of people to flee their homes for America's southern border. The...

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Hamid Hayat Finally Free!

by | Aug 17, 2019 |

Remember him? He was the 22-year-old entrapped by Robert Mueller's FBI into ... Actually, he didn't do anything at all! All that happened was the government informant who had infiltrated his family tricked him into saying some bs about loving Osama, before the actual cops coerced the youth into ridiculously claiming that his grandfather ran an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, where they all practiced terrorist poll vaulting in the basement. I am not making this up. The FBI did. The L.A. Times once published the video of the "interrogation." They gave him 24 years. It was, how do you...

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Correction: Islamic State Population Size

by | Aug 17, 2019 |

Thanks to John in the Reddit room for the heads up. I said on Tom Woods' show that the Islamic State, which controlled eastern Syria and western Iraq from June 2014-December 2017, was the size and population of Great Britain, but that's wrong. It was the size of the UK, but had a population of only six million. I thought I was paraphrasing Patrick Cockburn, but this is what he really said: "As the attention of the world focused on Ukraine and Gaza, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) captured a third of Syria in addition to the quarter of Iraq it had seized in June. The frontiers of...

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