Bernard at MoonofAlabama seems to agree with my speculation, as I told Dave Smith yesterday, that perhaps Maduro had his defense minister, chief judge and head of the presidential police pretend to change sides just to lure Guaido and Trump-Pompeo-Bolton into...
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John Bolton On The Warpath
Can Trumps National-Security adviser sell the isolationist President on military force? Dexter Filkins at The New Yorker, an in-depth profile of the most dangerous man in the world.
The World’s Top Weapons Seller
On FPF #322, I discuss a report finding that the US sold more weapons than any other country. I explain how the elites behind the military-industrial complex benefit from the US welling weapons to 98 countries in 2018. The weapon makers buy influence in the US to help...
Don’t Worry
"Mr. Bolton told colleagues not to worry. The negotiations, he said, would collapse on their own."
You Know Who I Don’t Like? John Bolton.
He is a bad person. Former SK unification minister Chong Se-hyun suggests that summit was derailed by last minute attendance of Bolton, who added demands for NK to also report chemical/biological weapons, in response to which NKs increased their demand for sanctions...
Bolton: We’re Taking Venezuela’s Oil
The heroic Ron Paul and the great Dan McAdams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTE0SQA2jU8
‘We Don’t Take Orders From Bolton’
Isn't this all very interesting. Update: Gareth Porter says, no, it isn't. The media twisted Bolton's words to make him sound insubordinate to Trump, but his actual statement is more easily interpreted as an attempt to justify what his boss was doing by favorably...
Media, Hardliners Play Up North Korean Nuclear “Deception” Claim
Just as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was about to leave for denuclearization negotiations in Pyongyang, a spate of media stories reported that North Korea is deceiving the Trump administration by seeking to hide some of its nuclear facilities. Those stories suggest...
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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty
Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...
The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger
Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...
