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News Roundup 1/31/20
US News The House passes bills to block all funding for war with Iran and repealing the 2002 AUMF. A few Republicans joined House Democrats in passing the bills. [Link] Congress plans to open an investigation into the deaths of six Marines during a training exercise...
War! Glorious War!
According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study released in 2016 the US Government was spending over $1 Billion annually on Public Relations. Approximately $626 Million of that was used by the Department of Defense to fund its PR campaign glamorizing and...
Trump’s Deal Of The Century Does Not Create A Palestinian State
From Haaretz: Fact check, Trump did not actually offer the Palestinians a state The "Deal Of the Century" is nothing more than a declaration of surrender. Surrender what little sovereignty you have and any agency to act on your own behalf. Allow us to herd you into...
The US Is Losing in Afghanistan
On FPF #448, I discuss several news stories that are being ignored as the media obsessively covers impeachment. In Afghanistan, a US plane was downed and the UN announced it needs to provide basic aid to an additional three million Afghans this year. The US Embassy in...
What Robert Reich is hiding from millennials
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s latest video presentation attempts to explain to millennials why they are so broke. Disappointingly, millennials will be left wanting, as Reich never delves deeper than surface-level observations and conceals some inconvenient...
A Million Iraqis Asked Us to Leave. We Should Listen.
You wouldn’t know it from US mainstream media reporting, but on Friday an estimated million Iraqis took to the streets to protest the continued US military presence in their country. What little mainstream media coverage the protest received all reported the number of...
1/25/20 Daniel Lazare on the Democrats’ Paranoid Ukraine Fantasy
Daniel Lazare discusses the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Trump, which he calls nothing more than a continuation of the Russiagate delusion. He and Scott rehash some of the history that has led America to the point where it even feels like Russia...
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