Gareth Porter discusses the slow death of the "Russiagate" narrative, which has been allowed to live on mainly because of deliberate obfuscation by democrats and the mainstream media. Rarely do they lie outright about the facts, says Porter—instead they will...
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The Endless Fantasy Of American Power
by Steven Woskow | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog
"Saving the United States’ soul will require an honest reckoning with post–Cold War U.S. foreign policy and, above all, with the reckless misuse of military power that forms its abiding theme." Andrew Bacevich at Foreign Affairs: In this year’s presidential election...
You See, The Police Are Not Actually Your Security Force. They Are Your Enemy.
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog
Democrats Scuttle Marijuana Decriminalization Vote Over Fears of Not Being Deferential Enough to Cop Lobbyists A planned House vote on a bill to decriminalize the possession of marijuana was canceled on Thursday under pressure from law enforcement lobbyists and other...
President Trump Labels Generals as Pawns of the Military-Industrial Complex
by Hunter DeRensis | Sep 17, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Once again, the whispers of phantoms masquerading as administration officials have attempted to put Donald Trump on the defensive only two months before the fall election. And in typical fashion, the roused president has gone on an immediate rhetorical offensive....
Debt Without Integrity
by Austin Rogers | Sep 15, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
“You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” — Matthew 7:5 I grew up going to numerous youth group events, Christian summer camps, weekly chapels at my Christian high school, and...
9/11/20 Trita Parsi: What Trump’s Iraq Troop Withdrawal Means for Ending America’s Wars
by Scott Horton | Sep 14, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trita Parsi discusses President Trump's recent announcement of a troop withdrawal from Iraq. Parsi is hesitant to fully endorse this move, explaining that while troop reductions are obviously good, such individual tactical moves, in order to be truly effective, must...
9/11/20 Paul Robinson on the ‘Russiagate’ Narrative that Refuses to Die
by Scott Horton | Sep 14, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Paul Robinson about yet another round of claims that President Trump colluded with Russia to disingenuously win the 2016 election. This time, what's at issue is a trove of emails from Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort from his time working as a...
Russiagate is Horseshit
by Scott Horton | Sep 13, 2020 | Blog
A fan of the show wrote wanting to know how can I not see what a Russian agent Trump is? Well: Popodopolous had no knowledge of any Russian anything. The guy who set him up was not a Russian agent, but MI-6. Carter Page was a CIA asset, not a Russian one. And they...
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Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
The populist Sanders-left (which is actually broader because it includes Tucker Carlson and others called rightists) is partly correct and partly incorrect about what happened to the Democrats last Tuesday. They say correctly that the Democrats failed because they...
Bang for your Buck: Fraud, Waste and Abuse as a Lifestyle Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJ0kg9xvLs I don't agree with everything he says and he gets technical details wrong like "...these destroyer class ships, probably doing the same thing the submarine does." No, but that's OK. One thing that is always missed here is...
The Winner Is…
Donald Trump did it, he is the most famous person in the world. His ambitions have been realised. He won and to him that is all that matters. He also just happens to be the next US president, again. Harris was never going to win, she was terrible. She had been the VP...
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Predicts the Death of Zionism
in a recent episode of The Big Picture Podcast hosted by Mohamed Hassan, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why he believes that Israel's genocide in Gaza is the beginning of the end of the Jewish supremacist state enforcing an apartheid regime in Palestine from...
Pentagon Waste: The Legend Continues Part Infinity
Of course they did. Boeing is the gift that keeps on giving A Pentagon audit revealed that Boeing overcharged the Air Force by nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, with some items marked up by as much as 8,000%. The audit reviewed prices paid for 46...
Two Tales, Two Navies
I find some of my correspondents gently berate me for being overwhelmingly negative so I am going to offer insights on occasion into tales of the human spirit that will cause you pause. So dear reader, first, the negativity the modern navy deserves. The floating...
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