US News Biden says nursing homes that have Medicare and Medicaid residents have to mandate their staff are vaccinated. [Link] The FDA approved a third booster shot of the 2-shot covid vaccinations for most adults. [Link] The federal government will reimburse states...
China
8/13/21 Joseph Solis-Mullen: China Won’t Be Taking Over the World
Joseph Solis-Mullen discusses the claim that America must now turn its attention toward China as the new threat of global hegemony. War hawks will cite China's growing economic supremacy, many alleged human rights abuses and supposed imperialistic designs on its...
News Roundup 8/18/21
China The new Air Force Secretary Frank Kendell says he is obsessed with China and the Air Force needs to be freed up to confront the superpower. [Link] China says it is willing to work with the US on Afghanistan. [Link] Afghanistan The Taliban says they laid the...
Our Generals Are Complicit in Military Disaster
In early July, Ron Paul penned a column titled “It’s Saigon In Afghanistan,” invoking the imagery of the fall of Saigon in 1975, when U.S. military helicopters scrambled to evacuate personnel from the roof of the U.S. embassy. But Paul suggested that maybe the...
Conflicts of Interest #150: Scott Horton on the End of a Fool’s Errand
On COI #150 the great Scott Horton returns to the show to discuss the collapse of America’s sockpuppet government in Kabul. Scott explains how he seemed to be one of the only Afghan War analysts to correctly predict how quickly – and mostly bloodlessly – the Afghan...
Blame Bush and Obama for the Afghan Disaster
Former President Trump, President Biden and their partisans are rushing to blame each other for the debacle unfolding now in Afghanistan. The “National Unity Government” and its military and police forces have completely evaporated in the face of the Taliban’s rapid...
News Roundup 8/16/21
US News The FDA approved a third dose of the two-dose covid vaccinations. [Link] Pizer and Moderna could make up to $12.5 billion giving covid booster shots. [Link] Snopes suspends co-founder David Mikkelson after BuzzFeed discovered over 50 of his articles were...
8/12/21 Ray McGovern on the History of US-Russia Relations and the Threat of a New Cold War
Scott interviews Ray McGovern about his decades as a CIA analyst, with a particular focus on U.S.–Russia policy from Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. They also discuss America's growing antagonism toward Russia and China in recent years, and the attempt to expand NATO...
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