A person would be hard-pressed to find a day in the Washington D.C. calendar where there isn’t some kind of conference. They’re typically small affairs with free lunches, and more useful at hitting a think tank’s spending quota than influencing policy. As a...
Barack Obama
The Real Korean Question
Last year in June, Donald Trump met with the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, in Singapore. Said Trump, We’re very proud of what took place today. I think our whole relationship with North Korea and the Korean Peninsula is going to be a very much different...
Debate: Is US Aid to Israel too much?
What lobbying groups influence American foreign policy towards Israel? Is the current system fair? Does it help or hurt the safety of Americans? Does Israel get too much military aid from the United States or not enough? In this episode we’ll cover: -AIPAC -Iron...
Fighting the Last War
Reprinted from Antiwar.com. America is still fighting the last war. I admit to having a bit of the same problem. I’m now working on a new book to follow-up my previous one about the war in Afghanistan. The tentative title is Enough Already: Time to End the War on...
What Robert Reich Failed to Say about Marijuana Legalization
Professor, economist, author, and political commentator Robert Reich is best known for being President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997. Before that he held positions in the administrations of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was a professor at...
6/10/19 Jim Bovard on Obama’s Forgotten Frauds and Debacles
Jim Bovard reflects on the legacy of Barack Obama's presidency in light of Donald Trump's. Obama is garnering favorable comparisons now, explains Bovard, but we shouldn't forget all of the horrible things he did, especially on civil liberties and foreign wars. The...
Obama’s Forgotten Frauds and Debacles
Former President Barack Obama is again busy lecturing Americans on politics. His speeches have contained many snappy lines that would deserve attention if they came from an untainted source. But Obama as president was guilty of many of the things against which he now...
The Parallel Universes That Are America
Many see recent attacks on Attorney General William Barr not as politics as usual but a call to overthrow the status quo. The intransigence of the Republican response indicates that many now view current affairs as a battle to destroy or preserve America’s defining...
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