Christine Ahn joins the show for an update on the Korean peace process, now that John Bolton is out of the Trump administration. She thinks Bolton was a major obstacle to Korean unification, and that now Trump might go along with the negotiations between the North and...
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Latest Trump Impeachment Scandal is Also Garbage
He's still guilty of genocide in an illegal war, so, you know, there's always that. But anyway, go read Reason this morning about the Ukraine nonsense. Short version: Biden and Kerry's sons were cashing in on their dads' connections in Ukraine and China, but there's...
US Claims to Kill ‘Al Qaeda’ Fighters in Afghanistan
Yeah right. USA needs an excuse for killing 40 civilians at a wedding the day after killing 30 civilian pine nut-pickers. So: Al Qaeda! In this Fox News piece they don't even pretend the "al Qaeda" guys they killed were Arab friends of Osama at all. One was Pakistani....
‘They’ll Never be Communism in Murica’
Yeah, about that. The average “social media patriot” is enamored with pointing their finger at the stage full of democratic presidential candidates and hurling accusations of them desiring socialism and communism in their “Free Murica.” There’s a huge problem with...
Food Is Freedom: How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick
Farm subsidies are perhaps the ultimate, but secret, third rail of American politics. While entitlements are discussed out in the open, farm subsidies are rarely talked about – even though they are the most expensive subsidy Washington doles out. All told, the U.S....
Ed Snowden Interview
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Year Zero: Trump, Biden, Saudi Arabia, and the Intelligence Community
In episode 68 Tommy looks at the latest news surrounding Hunter Biden, Trump, and the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia to defend against the threat that is Iran. Tommy speculates that given the history of business interest and intelligence interest merging that...
9/20/19 Catherine L. Besteman on America’s Shadow War in Somalia
Catherine Besteman joins the show to share some of her research about America's covert proxy war in Somalia. American military intervention in Somalia goes back at least as far as the Bush administration's support for Ethiopia in its invasion of the country in 2006,...
9/20/19 Gareth Porter on Why Iran’s Role in the Oil Attack is Beside the Point
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about his recent article for the American Conservative about why Iran's possible role in the recent Saudi oil field attacks is beside the point. Porter thinks it's pretty likely that Iran was behind the attacks, probably as a...
Surveillance: You’d Better Chose Wisely
I’ve often joked that George Orwell’s novel 1984 was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual. And yet every day the U.S. marches closer and closer to making Orwell’s dystopian nightmare a reality. Nobody wants this. So, why is it happening? Because way too...
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