US News Rep. Duncan Hunter says he will resign after the holidays. [Link] US immigration has separated 1,100 children from their parents since the summer of 2018 when a judge ordered the Trump admin to stop separating children from parents. [Link] The FBI IG releases...
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News Roundup 7/15/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 15, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Sources say Trump is close to removing Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence. [Link] A Florida police officer has been fired for repeatedly punching a handcuffed man in the face. [Link] The police officer who murdered unarmed Daniel Shaver has been...
5/24/19 Grant F. Smith: the Niger Uranium Forgeries
by Scott Horton | May 27, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his work obtaining secret government documents by FOIA request. This time Smith has gotten a 640-page document outlining Bush administration intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons in the leadup to the Iraq war. Discussed on the show:...
News Roundup 1/7/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 7, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke resigns. [Link] A new lawsuit challenges Arkansas anti-BDS law. The law requires all private companies that do business with the state to sign an agreement not to boycott Israel. [Link] Heavily redacted documents released under an...
9/06/18 Grant F. Smith on Treasury Sanctions for Israel
by Scott Horton | Sep 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant F Smith Institute for Research Middle East Policy and author of Big Israel, about the Israel lobby in Washington DC, is interviewed on the results of his FOIA request of the Treasury Department. The office of Terrorism Finance and Development, a relatively new...
6/29/18 Jim Bovard on the Secret Machinations of the FBI
by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Investigative columnist Jim Bovard joins the show to discuss the latest news from the FBI, as well as its history of meddling in American politics. Lots of people have been shocked by the revelations in the recent Inspector General report about the bias of top FBI...
News Roundup 2/16/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog
The State Department Spokeswoman says she will be surprised if the US does not add new sanctions on Russia. [Link] The US senior diplomat to Asia says the US has no planned "bloody nose" strike on North Korea. [Link] The US will waste billions of dollars upgrading...
News Roundup 10/20/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog
An Ohio police officer who caught on video beating a person he pulled over has been fired. [Link] US aid to Latin America elites has lead to more immigrants coming to the US. [Link] Trump disagrees with the State Department's assessment of what is causing sonic...
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They’ll Ruin Your Country Then Piss on You for Sayin’ So
It should be no surprise that the faux-conservative "Rich Men North of Richmond" at the National Review don't approve of the meteoric rise of singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony. "Just what is it this time?" you might ask—did he oppose slaughtering a million Iraqis? No,...
The Gov’t Sterilized the “Feebleminded” in My Hometown
When I was in middle school, the bus route would take us past a mysterious, old campus with an array of decaying brick buildings. I always thought it was dark and ominous looking. Little did I know, a century prior, hundreds of people had been committed and sterilized...
The Trinity Test Killed Babies…Yeah, You Read that Right
The wanton and reckless disregard for human life shown by the Manhattan Project boggles the mind. Despite my criticism of the Christopher Nolan Film "Oppenheimer," it did include the infamous fact that Manhattan Project scientists believed there was a chance that the...
Tom Woods Show Episode 2378: Contradictions and Stupidities of Public Health
Tom Woods and I recently discussed the Coronapocalypse and Questioning the Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times: The Tom Woods Show Episode 2378: Contradictions and Stupidities of Public Health https://youtu.be/ez1hCYAOuHM
The Army Panicked When it Discovered This Shocking Fact
In 1947, Brigadier General SLA Marshall made an announcement that shocked the military world and changed combat forever. The startling news came when Marshall published "Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command," a study that he conducted during his service as...
You’ll Never Believe this Fact About Dr. Seuss
During WWII, a children's author and cartoonist smeared American's largest political organization opposing US involvement in WWII. It may surprise you that this children's author was none other than Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss. But just what was this group Dr....