Reese Erlich has the latest on some of the many conflicts in the Middle East today. He first discusses the strange fact that most Americans seem utterly unaware of what's going on between the Israelis and the Palestinians whose land they are occupying. Too often, the...
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11/15/19 Jimmy Dore on the Moral Bankruptcy of the Democratic Party
Scott talks to comedian Jimmy Dore about all the problems with the foreign policy positions of the Democratic presidential candidates. He and Scott agree that the only one with a halfway decent antiwar stance is Tulsi Gabbard, who the media has been trying their...
11/15/19 Daniel Ellsberg on America’s Hair-Trigger Nuclear Holocaust
Daniel Ellsberg discusses the Kings Bay Plowshares case, in which he was set to testify as an expert witness before such testimony was banned by the judge at the last moment. His testimony would have centered on the threat that these Trident missiles pose to end...
11/15/19 Eric Margolis on the Fall of Communism and the New Cold War
Scott talks to Eric Margolis about the history of the Soviet Union and its aftermath, in honor of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall last week. Margolis reminds us what a mistake the Cold War was, as is the new Cold War that American neocons and...
11/15/19 Daniel McAdams on America’s Own CIA-backed Coup
Daniel McAdams talks with Scott about some of the unintended—or maybe not so unintended—consequences of America's support for regime change revolutions all over the world. These include powerful drug cartels, the rise of regimes that are more extreme and violent than...
Warning: Actual Costs of Government Programs Higher Than Advertised
As outrageous as the price tag promised to us for initiatives like Elizabeth Warren’s healthcare plan, Bernie’s ‘Medicare for All’ plan, or AOC’s ‘Green New Deal,’ history tells us the actual cost to taxpayers would be far higher. In its first year, Medicare cost $3...
11/15/19 Ray McGovern on the New ‘Russiagate’
Ray McGovern explains some of the background to the current Ukraine impeachment inquiry, starting with the fact that Russia is obviously just being used today as a bogeyman and a scapegoat for fears of any potential challenge to absolute American global hegemony....
Oklahoma Frees Some of Its Political Prisoners
Communist and other authoritarian and totalitarian governments around the world have always, throughout history and at this very time, arrested (or sometimes just simply seized) and jailed (or sometimes just killed) political dissidents and other nonconformists whom...
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