8/16/19 Jim Bovard on Bill Clinton’s ‘Benevolent’ Murder of Serbian Civilians

Scott talks to Jim Bovard about Bill Clinton's bombing campaign in Serbia twenty years ago, which at the time was widely heralded as a triumph of the "forces of good." It was also, apparently, something that Bill Clinton did as a way to appease Hillary after the fallout from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The entire narrative of "ethnic cleansing" that was put forth as justification for American intervention turned out later to have been overblown, with, in actual fact, casualties (and some atrocities) on both sides of the civil war but little evidence for the purported one-sided genocide....

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[Clapping Hands Emoji] This Is What Gun Control Looks Like [Clapping Hands Emoji]

A totalitarian police state for black people -- and everyone else -- on gun possession charges. Think a liberal or progressive is capable of figuring out that laws aren't magic wishes, and that instead have to be enforced by cops, prosecutors and judges -- and that it might not be worth it? I guess not. According to 12up: "One has to hate that a father is being taken away from his family and placed behind bars, but the punishment does fit the crime -- despite what Telfair's jarring pleas might suggest." https://youtu.be/auQKuFUxA1k

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Ron and Dan: Can Trump Get Out of Afghanistan?

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

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

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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