On COI #107, Kyle and Will discuss the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange, who remains in a maximum security UK jail as the Joe Biden administration seeks to imprison him for the better part of 200 years. While Biden spoke of his appreciation for brave journalists...
After a fiery year of cultural outrage against the state of policing in America, President Joe Biden's administration has announced that they have heard the pleas of the people. They will not stand by while a nefarious force maliciously targets the African American...
I admit that I have a love/hate relationship with the concept of logical consistency. Hear me out please. First, my enemies don’t care if their arguments or policies possess logical consistency and, unfortunately, they tend to be the ones that control the reins of...
In so many ways right now, culturally, the Left is now the Right and the Right is now the Left.
Joe Lauria comments on the last few days of Julian Assange's extradition hearing. He notes a movement on the part of the prosecution away from their previous tack, which was to argue that Assange was not really a journalist, but actually engaging in hacking and...
Clive Stafford Smith, expert witness in Julian Assange's extradition hearing, talks about the outrageous scandal that is the U.S. government's attempted prosecution of Assange and Wikileaks. Smith begins by making the obvious point that as a recipient of classified...
I don’t write as often as I should. Not as if my writing might change the world, but just purely from a therapeutic exercise. I have written 4 or 5 articles recently that I haven’t published. I can’t even entirely pinpoint the reason why. The last few days though have...
Hubris, hypocrisy, and sanctimony are all constants of U.S. foreign policy. All came together in George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Most foreign policy analysts, other than the neoconservative war enthusiasts who dominated Bush administration decision-making,...
