America is definitely not Europe, but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America. For example, we’ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare...
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This Morning on Antiwar Radio: Gilbert Doctorow on Picking a Fight With Russia
That's 8:30 Pacific on 90.7 FM KPFK in L.A. http://kpfk.org
Aaron Mate vs Josh Rogin On The War In Syria
Aaron Mate takes on Josh Rogin. Aaron links the war on Syria to the war for Al-Qaeda. "Joe Biden: "Our allies were our largest problem in Syria... They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad....
Episode 476: Not Worrying About Gun Control Threats w/ Jose Niño
49 Minutes Safe for Work Jose is the author of "The 10 Myths of Gun Control" and writes on such diverse topics as the "war on meat" and the history of Venezuela. Jose joins Pete to talk about the unprecedented number of guns that have been bought this year and how...
Cops Torture Lady
For "smoking in public," and of course you know face no accountability for their crimes. https://youtu.be/xXxKnKbKaNY
Cops Kill Man
An entirely innocent man. They suffocated him to death George Floyd-style.
9/25/20 Grant Smith on the Israel Lobby, Tech Censorship and the 1619 Project
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his ongoing work on the Israel lobby and its influence in America. Scott likens the story of Israel and Palestine to the history of the U.S. government and the Native Americans—for a long time everyone learned a skewed version that...
9/25/20 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Latest Fake Terrorism Entrapment Scheme
Trevor Aaronson discusses the FBI's dubious techniques for luring people into fake terrorist plots, which very often border on entrapment. In this case he takes up the story of two Americans involved in the "boogaloo" movement, who were approached by FBI agents...
9/25/20 Andrea Prasow on the Deadly Consequences of the US-Saudi War in Yemen
Scott interviews Andrea Prasow about the war crimes and human rights violations being perpetrated by all sides in the war in Yemen. She reminds us that although civilians always suffer the most during war, this war has seen a particularly cruel strategy by the Saudis,...
Are States Inevitable? Ep. 131
https://youtu.be/4KiNyw7uSx8 If the governments of the world have formed and persist in a state of anarchy, does it follow that the State is an inevitable institution? How would a libertarian anarchist society prevent being conquered by a state or prevent itself from...
