Russiagate US and foreign intelligence worked to interfere in the Trump campaign. [Link] The Mueller Report allows readers to look past the no collusion finding and hold on to the Russiagate conspiracy theory. [Link] US Foreign Policy Danny Sjursen: the Left needs...
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American Interventionists Hurt the Cause of Freedom in Venezuela
The United States has a long, violent history of intervention in Latin America, although few Americans know about it. Were one to ask the average American, for example, about the US occupation of the Dominican Republic — which lasted for eight years from 1916 to 1924...
5/7/19 Ro Khanna on ending the War in Yemen
Scott talks to Congressman Ro Khanna about the bipartisan efforts in congress to end the war in Yemen. Despite a lack of popular awareness of this issue, explains Khanna, the humanitarian disaster in Yemen is horrific, and the U.S. should end its support for the...
Trump’s Big Government
A recent Foreign Policy article makes a case that the role of the government in the U.S. economy has grown under President Trump. Normally this would seem contrary to the values of a conservative administration. However, Trump is no small-government conservative nor...
News Roundup 5/2/19
Immigration The Pentagon expects to send about 300 more troops to the border. [Link] Trump proposes having asylum seekers pay an application fee. [Link] US Foreign Policy Biden’s campaign says he opposes continuing US support for Saudi in the Yemeni War. Biden was...
4/26/19 Grant Smith on the Shifting of American Support for Israel
Grant Smith comes back on the show to explain the polling around American support for Palestine. Last month Gallup quietly revealed that support for Palestine among Americans is now higher than support for Israel. In the past these polls, which always claimed...
News Roundup 4/29/19
2020 Brittany Hunter breaks down Job Biden’s terrible history on criminal justice policy. [Link] The DNC Chair says we are at war with Russia. [Link] US News More than 12,000 individuals associated with the Boy Scouts have been identified as victims of sexual abuse....
4/26/19 Conn Hallinan on the Revenge of the Kurds
Conn Hallinan joins the show to explain the political situation in Turkey, where President Recep Erdogan has been consolidating power away from the parliament and into a strong executive. The problem, explains Hallinan, is that a groundswell of Kurdish voters has...
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