Over the last few days, the United States and Iran came dangerously close to going to war. Thankfully, both sides backed down. The event which precipitated this latest crisis was the decision by the Trump Administration to unilaterally and illegally assassinate...
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1/10/20 Gareth Porter on Mike Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Gareth Porter joins Scott once again to discuss what he calls Mike Pompeo's "Gulf of Tonkin incident." In the real Gulf of Tonkin incident, McNamara intentionally misled President Johnson in order to incite war between the U.S. and North Vietnam. Porter says that...
1/10/20 Cliff Maloney on Waking Americans up to the Liberty Message
Cliff Maloney of Young Americans for Liberty talks about the disaster of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and how to bring more Americans around to the antiwar position. Luckily, he says, a great majority of people already oppose the wars in Iraq and...
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‘If You Want Liberty, Go Live In The African Bush…
... otherwise you're just a LARPer not willing to do what needs to be done to be free.' Yes, that is an "actual argument" from a Brit on Twitter. Imagine the level of Stockholm Syndrome you must be suffering to believe that people who desire liberty must live like...
Qassem Soleimani: Why His Killing is Good News for IS Jihadists
Jeremy Bowen in the BBC: "In an editorial of the weekly IS newspaper al-Naba, the group said that Soleimani and al-Muhandis died at the hands of their 'allies'" - a reference to the US. It said the enemies of IS were busy fighting each other, which would drain their...
Israel Helped Kill Soleimani
It's just one throwaway line in CIA asset Ken Dilanian’s new NBC piece on the whiz-bang, super-neato, space-age, Hollywood movie-like, special, high-technology that made the assassination possible. "Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details." And dammit, I...
1/10/20 Robert Naiman on the new War Powers Resolutions
Scott talks to Robert Naiman about the efforts in congress and the senate to oppose the war in Yemen and stymie any escalation in a conflict with Iran. Naiman is optimistic that a concurrent resolution against the war in Yemen, which Trump cannot veto, will have...
1/10/20 Francis Boyle on the Real Reason to Impeach Trump
Francis Boyle explains why President Trump should be impeached—not for the charges of corruption and abuse of power in Ukraine, but for his war crimes in continuing the aggressive wars of the Bush and Obama administrations. Boyle thinks that Trump's behavior with...
Close Enough For Government Work
Iran admits they accidentally shot down the airliner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKnpuBecwpU
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