Scott talks to Tom Collina about the alarming plan to expand America's nuclear arsenal. The $2 trillion package, Collina explains, would include a large investment in what's known as the "nuclear sponge": a collection of ICBMs in America's heartland designed to draw a...
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4/30/21 Aisha Jumaan on US Complicity in Yemen’s Dire Humanitarian Crisis
Aisha Jumaan discusses the situation in Yemen. Although the Biden administration claimed earlier this year that it would end American support for Saudi "offensive operations" in Yemen, they have recently announced that certain support functions—like providing...
4/30/21 Andy Worthington on the Shameful Human Cost of Joe Biden’s Guantanamo Inertia
Scott interviews Andy Worthington about Guantanamo Bay, America's secret black site prison, where 40 men are still being held, some of them without ever having been charged with a crime. President Obama famously campaigned on closing Guantanamo, but ultimately was...
Episode 571: Using Marx’s Class Theory To Radicalize The 99.9% w/ Aaron From Timeline Earth
50 Minutes PG-13 Aaron is one of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Aaron joins Pete to talk about how Marx's Class Theory can be used by Right-Wing Anarchist/Libertarians to radicalize other libertarians and normies alike. Timeline Earth Podcast Get Autonomy 19...
Gene Editing Goes to Clincial Trials
Gene-editing using the groundbreaking CRISPR technology is about to be put to the test in the first-ever clinical trial of the treatment in humans. CRISPR is a protein in bacteria that can be used to manipulate genetic material to, according to Jennifer Doudna, who...
When Murray Rothbard Predicted the Menthol Ban
Murray Rothbard wrote the following article in August 1994. Quick: Which is America’s Most Persecuted Minority? No, you’re wrong. (And it’s not Big Business either: one of Ayn Rand’s more ludicrous pronouncements.) All right, consider this: Which group has been...
Remembering Reese Erlich, Pillar of Independent Journalism
When Reese Erlich died in early April, we lost a global reporter who led by example. During five decades as a progressive journalist, Reese created and traveled an independent path while avoiding the comfortable ruts dug by corporate media. When people in the United...
News Roundup 4/28/21
US News Louisiana police placed a GPS tracker on a woman’s car. When she removed it, they demanded the tracker back. [Link] In addition to the $2 trillion covid relief bill and the proposed $2 trillion infrastructure bill, Biden now wants to pass a $1.8 trillion bill...
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