Latin America Riots in a Honduran prison leave 18 dead. [Link] A military facility in Venezuela was raided. One soldier was killed in the attack. The Venezuelan government claims to have captured the assailants and recovered the weapons. [Link] Ukraine/Russia Ukraine...
31 Minutes Safe for Work In another throwback episode, Pete welcomed Brooklyn College professor Alex Vitale to the show to talk about his book "The End of Policing." Dr. Vitale talks about how violence by police has been amped up in the last 40 years and talks about...
Maybe he feels like he owes Ayman al-Zawahiri a favor for allowing him to own the tallest building in southern Manhattan for a few years. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210220021433208832
Scott interviews John Kiriakou about the history of the CIA's secret torture program. Kiriakou was involved in the 2002 capture of Abu Zubaydah, who was initially interrogated with some success by the FBI, before his interrogation was eventually taken over by the CIA....
As the second decade of the 21st Century comes to a close, and the corporate press is doing everything in its vast power to keep people’s attention on impeachment, it is easy to overlook that the last 20 years should only be defined by one subject; war. Since shortly...
So, there are some libertar-ee-uns who call the Civil War the war of "Northern Aggression" or "Between The States". Etc. But it was truly a Civil War. I can defend this. Both sides of the war celebrated the motherf***--- Fourth of July. Both sides named towns after...
Collateral damage. A filing error is all. You understand.
That's why all good and decent people hate them so much.
As 1914 drew to a close, Europe had been at war for months. On the Western Front, opposing armies faced each other across a stalemated front line running from the North Sea to the Swiss border. On December 24, 100,000 soldiers from both sides of that line decided to...
On FPF #434, I update the most important news of the last week. I discuss Kim's upcoming end of year deadline and what could happen if the US fails to engage North Korea in meaningful talks. Trump signed the 2020 NDAA this week. The bill will sanction European energy...
