The Department of Defense granted Wayne State University $750,000 to attempt to give ferrets “Havana Syndrome.” Earlier this month, the intelligence community concluded the illness is not caused by a weapon. American officials in Havana, Cuba reported hearing loud...
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FBI Pushed Twitter to Suppress Hunter Biden Laptop Story, Paid Company Millions
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 19, 2022 | News
The intelligence community worked to ensure Twitter would quash The New York Post's report on Hunter Biden's laptop. New internal documents released by Twitter show the company received over $3 million from the FBI in the run-up to the 2020 election. Michael...
Sam Harris Is Dumber Than I Thought
by Keith Knight | Nov 19, 2022 | Blog
"The sovereign citizen lunatic cult in white society" is what Sam Harris calls someone who has the same standards for the police they would have for anyone else. You know what sounds like a cult? A person (President/Congress) who claims the right to issue...
COI #334: Biden Says World On Brink of Nuclear War
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 10, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #334, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the latest escalations in the war in Ukraine as well as some recent news about the protests in Iran and the JCPOA. Kyle discusses President Joe Biden’s statement that we are closer today to nuclear “Armageddon” than...
5/6/22 John Kiriakou on the War on Alternative Media
by Scott Horton | May 7, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou to discuss the recent uptick in deplatforming efforts against alternative media sites like Consortium News and MintPress News. They discuss the hold that the Intelligence Community has over...
9/3/21 Gareth Porter on the Media’s Reaction to the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Sep 5, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter joins Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss his latest piece about the media’s reaction to Afghanistan. Porter lays out how virtually the entire media ecosystem is arguing the withdrawal was done prematurely from both a counterterrorism standpoint and in...
Afghanistan Aftermath: No Firings? No Resignations?
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 17, 2021 | Blog, Foreign Policy
Joe Biden, who says the buck regarding Afghanistan stops with him in the White House, claims that the Taliban's final takeover of the capital, Kabul, provoking mass panic reminiscent of Saigon, 1975, happened more quickly "than anticipated." If that's true--spoiler...
George Bush’s Damnable Afghan War Lies
by Jim Bovard | May 25, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former President George W. Bush is bewailing President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Bush told Fox News last week, “I’m also deeply concerned about the sacrifices of our soldiers, and our intelligence community, will be forgotten,”...
News Roundup 4/16/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 16, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Bodycam footage shows a police officer murdering 13-year-old Adam Toledo. [Link] Crosley Green was convicted of murder with no physical evidence. Three witnesses testified against him, but all later recanted saying they were pressured to testify against Green....
4/2/21 Pete Quinones Interviews Scott About Vaccine Passports and the New Domestic Terror War
by Scott Horton | Apr 6, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Listen to a livestream Scott recorded with Pete Quinones on Friday. They discuss covid passports, the government's response to the pandemic over the last year and the growing focus in the U.S. government on so-called "domestic terrorism." Discussed on the show:...
COI #86 – Biden Stumbles Into Escalating Conflict With Russia, China & North Korea
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 22, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #86, Kyle and Will react to the first face-to-face summit between Biden administration officials and their Chinese counterparts, held last week in Anchorage, Alaska. Secretary of State Tony Blinken opened the talks with a litany of accusations against Beijing,...
News Roundup 3/1/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 1, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The FBI says it is looking at one person who sprayed an irritant into the face of Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick before he died the next day. The FBI is investigating the incident as an assault. [Link] Minneapolis city council approved $1.18 million in...
Trump Tests Positive for Covid as Russiagate Revelations Surface
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 2, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On Conflicts of Interest #15, Kyle and Will run down new disclosures from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on the Russiagate saga, suggesting some in the intelligence community were aware of a plot by the Hillary Clinton campaign to invent a scandal...
Pentagon Admits There Is No Corroboration of ‘Bountygate’ Claims
by Jason Ditz | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Continuing the allegation of Russian bounty payments to Taliban to kill U.S. troops, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley both told the House Armed Services Committee that they’ve seen no corroboration of the claim, nor do they...
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The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
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