Former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin, on a panel with former CIA Director John Brennan, responded to a question about whether the “deep state” was trying to take out President Trump with a quote, “thank God for the deep state.” Everyone laughed. He went on to...
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The Fake Whistleblower
Matt Tiabbi sets the record straight. Who are the real whistleblowers? They are people sitting in prison. People that have had their lives destroyed. What they are not is people that are protected by the so-called intelligence community. The unnamed person at the...
9/27/19 Daniel Lazare on What Trump-Ukraine Is Really About
Daniel Lazare rehashes some of the details of "Russiagate", focusing on the obvious media malfeasance and bias against President Trump, and the theory that the so-called "intelligence community" was doing everything they could to sabotage him. The latest episode in...
FPF #307 – Cold Wars with Russia & China
On FPF #307, I discuss the intelligence community's assessment that Russia and China are the biggest threats to the US. I breakdown the alleged areas of conflict between the American people and Great Power Rivals. I also update recent events in Venezuela. Links Gareth...
William Arkin Quits NBC Over Their War Mongering
Bill isn't always right, but like 95% or something at least. Read his great "goodbye letter" here. For me I realized how out of step I was when I looked at Trump’s various bumbling intuitions: his desire to improve relations with Russia, to denuclearize North Korea,...
12/17/18 Reese Erlich on All Trump’s Wars
Reese Erlich talks to Scott about the war in Yemen and about his latest article on the Russiagate controversy. Erlich thinks we can be cautiously optimistic about Yemen now that public pressure against the war is mounting (a recent poll found that 75% of Americans...
9/5/18 Gareth Porter on DHS ‘Russian Hacking’ Claims
Gareth Porter rejoins the show for an update on the Russian election hacking allegations. He reviews the evidence as presented by various media outlets and intelligence agencies, explaining why each story doesn't amount to much of anything on its own, and thus we...
7/17/18 Peter van Buren on Trump-Russia Hysteria
Peter van Buren discusses the media reaction to President Trump's recent meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. He compares the entire story of Russian collusion to the birther conspiracy movement, in that swaths of Americans have been swept up in a campaign against...
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