James Carden joins the show to talk about the obsolescence of NATO as the organization turns 70 this year. Far from Russia expanding its influence westward, as was feared, Carden explains how the U.S. has actually been the one to expand eastward, largely by including...
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Pardoning Assange Would be the First Step Back Toward Rule of Law
On April 11, the ongoing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn. Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, revoked his asylum in that country’s London embassy. British police immediately arrested him — supposedly pursuant to his...
News Roundup 4/5/19
Wikileaks Wikileaks says a high-level source revealed Julian Assange would be turned over to the UK within days. [Link] Janine Jackson exposes the mainstream media for failing to cover Chelsea Manning being jailed for refusing to testify in a secret court without...
Truth Is an Outlaw in Washington
“Truth isn’t truth,” declared Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, on Meet the Press last August. Giuliani’s comment was the “Trump era’s epitaph,” according to a Washington Post columnist. But truth really is defined differently inside the Beltway — when...
Insubordinate Gen. Votel Denounces Afghan Withdrawal Plans
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: U.S. General: Current Conditions 'Don't Merit' Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, has said that the current political situation in Afghanistan and the status of...
Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts So Many Americans in Jail
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. Arcesilaus, Greek philosopher and student of Plato on power and personal sovereignty There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love...
The First Rule of AIPAC Is: You Do Not Talk about AIPAC
Washington’s political establishment went berserk when US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) publicly noted that US-Israel relations are “all about the Benjamins” — slang for $100 bills, referring to money shoveled at American politicians by the American Israel Public...
Donald Trump, America’s Elected Dictator
After losing his battle against Congress to secure funding for his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, President Trump is declaring that that the congressional rebuff is irrelevant anyway. The reason? Trump is declaring an “emergency” under the “National Emergencies...
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