Scott talks to Nozomi Hayase about the movement to prosecute Glenn Greenwald for cybercrimes in Brazil. Greenwald is accused of helping to steal confidential text messages, as opposed to simply publishing information that had been hacked by someone else. This is...
History
Trade Sanctions Are Both Immoral and Ineffective
On January 10, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin announced new economic sanctions imposed on Iran in response to its missile strikes against US forces in Iraq. The sanctions target enterprises operating in the manufacturing,...
Master of Puppets
I've hated Metallica so badly for so long I forgot how great they used to be -- back before the Black Album when they turned into the worst band in human history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LA7v1PApU
News Roundup 1/23/20
US News Local police are using license plate readers to help the federal government build a massive database. [Link] More than 2,000 vets have filed a lawsuit against 3M for producing defective earplugs. [Link] The Guardian reports Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin...
How Did We Get Here: A History Of Iran-U.S. Relations
Malcom Byrne at Unredacted reviews The National Security Archives released documents on the history of the Iran-U.S. conflict "Documenting Iran-U.S. Relations 1978-2015". A look back at the 40 years since the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979 – made possible by a new...
1/17/20 Ryan McMaken on America’s Petrodollar Addiction
Ryan McMaken discusses his recent articles for the Mises Institute about the future of U.S. dollar hegemony. He walks us through the dollar's history as global reserve currency, which began in the mid 20th century as an alternative to a direct gold standard. Still,...
MLK: ‘Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam’
April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyE4eo_leX8 The sermon which I am preaching this morning in a sense is not the usual kind of sermon, but it is a sermon and an important subject, nevertheless, because the issue that I will be...
Benjamin Ferencz: The Immoral Killing Of The Iranian General
The New York Times has published a letter from former war crime prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz. Ferencz was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials. His website is here. From his Bio. The U.S. had decided to prosecute a broad cross section of Nazi criminals once the...
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