Grant Smith joins the show to promote his upcoming conference, Transcending The Israel Lobby At Home And Abroad, to be held in Washington D.C. this May. The conference, as with most of Smith's work, is focused on exposing the power the Israel Lobby wields in America...
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Rich People Suck
Barack Obama: “If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Bernie Sanders: “I don’t think that billionaires should exist.” AOC: “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars. People become billionaires only by...
Afghan Govt to Split Just as US Deal Reached With Taliban?
Ashraf Ghani has been declared the winner of last year's election. Abdullah Abdullah and Gen. Rashid Dostum are talking about creating their own competing state in revenge. Good luck, Afghans.
Kenny MacDonald: We’re Told to Support al Qaeda ‘Rebels’
Media fails to properly frame everything going on in the middle east, especially Syria. Here's whats going on in Idlib https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPK5hVFfZ0
Oh Sure. Russia Supports Sanders Now.
What percentage of American idiots are still buying this crap? This morning it was Trump again, now Sanders. How much are the Russians paying me to not notice that Buttigieg is the one they are really afraid of?!
2/21/20 Daniel Lazare on Erdogan’s Military Adventure in Syria
Daniel Lazare discusses the problems facing Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is dealing with a troubled economy, declining political popularity at home, and failing military excursions abroad. Lazare and Scott also talk about the failure of President Trump to...
2/19/20 Trita Parsi on Making a Restrained Foreign Policy the Status Quo
Scott talks to Trita Parsi about an event being hosted next week by Parsi's organization, the Quincy Institute, which will pit advocates of a restrained foreign policy against war hawks in a series of panel discussions. The event is Wednesday, February 26 in...
2/17/20 Gareth Porter on the History of the Iran Crisis
Gareth Porter comes on the show to promote his new book, The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War, cowritten with John Kiriakou. Porter and Scott recap the entire modern history of U.S. relations with Iran, focusing on the inflated...
News Roundup 2/21/20
US News Trump names Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell to be Acting Director of National Intelligence. [Link] A Pentagon official says the US needs to design new weapons to be prepared for war with China. [Link] Afghanistan The Taliban says there will be no peace...
The Senate Takes a Stand on Iran
On FPF #455, I discuss the Senate voting on a War Powers bill to constrain Trump's ability to start a war with Iran. Trump has continued on the presidential tradition of killing whoever he wants, and he is unbound by the Constitution. The House will also need to pass...
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