Washington Post: DEA seizes life savings of senile old man without the slightest pretext of a suspicion or belief that the money was involved in any crime at all. Every dollar Terry Rolin had saved over a lifetime was stacked in a large Tupperware container: $82,373....
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Jordan’s Abdullah: Israel Imposing ‘Unthinkable Solution’ On Palestinians
Jordan’s King Abdullah II accuses Israel of trying to “impose an unthinkable solution” on Palestinians as hopes fade for a two-state solution backed by the international community. Speaking to lawmakers at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, he says...
The Fallout and Lies of the Soleimani Assassination
On FPF #443, I discuss the fallout of the Soleimani assassination and the lies the Trump administration is telling. Trump and his team have had to walk back all their claims that Soleimani was an imminent threat. Now, Pompeo has claimed the decision was made to...
Maximum Pressure, Maximum Failure guest Will Porter
Will Porter returns to Foreign Policy Focus to talk about Trump's 'maximum pressure' strategy. Will covers the recent news that Iran shot down the Ukrainiahttp://traffic.libsyn.com/foreignpolicyfocus/FPF442.mp3n civilian flight, killing 176 people. Will and Kyle...
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...
Close Enough For Government Work
Iran admits they accidentally shot down the airliner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKnpuBecwpU
Trump Approval At 77%
In Israel. Not as popular everywhere else. from Mondoweiss: 36,000 respondents were surveyed across 33 countries. 64% of them indicated that they don’t trust Trump “to do the right thing regarding world affairs”, while just 29% said they have confidence in him. 54%...
Why Bin Laden Has Won
Iraq's infrastructure is broken. China is making them a deal: they'll help rebuild it, in exchange for some oil. Why is it that the totalitarian communist empire is making friends and money through commercial development and cooperation? How come the "liberal" and...
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