"That's what I love about America. We some God-damn bullies." --Katt Williams Reuters: "The Trump administration has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on European automobile imports if Britain, France and Germany do not formally accuse Iran of breaking the 2015...
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The Fallout and Lies of the Soleimani Assassination
On FPF #443, I discuss the fallout of the Soleimani assassination and the lies the Trump administration is telling. Trump and his team have had to walk back all their claims that Soleimani was an imminent threat. Now, Pompeo has claimed the decision was made to...
Presidential War Power
"It is, however, insane and intolerable that peace depends on the restraint of the Islamic Republic and an American president given to rage-tweeting war-crime threats," the Cato Institute's Gene Healy, who studies presidential power, writes in "Trump the Decider." "No...
Year Zero 92: Soleimani Was An Imminent Threat, But Not To American Lives
The Trump administration has backed off of the narrative that Soleimani was in Baghdad to plot attacks on four American embassies, but they haven't addressed the imminent threat he truly posed. While it's true the Iranian general can't be credibly linked to the deaths...
The Grammar of the Soleimani Assassination
By now we've heard enough official explanations of Trump's assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others to realize they are all nonsense. (And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now admits it.) Trump killed Soleimani because, egged on by his unsavory friends...
1/10/20 Grant Smith on the Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board
Grant Smith discusses his new book, The Israel Lobby Enters State Government, which tells the scandalous story of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, a branch of the Virginia state legislature tasked with promoting Israeli business interests in the state. Unlike a...
Maximum Pressure, Maximum Failure guest Will Porter
Will Porter returns to Foreign Policy Focus to talk about Trump's 'maximum pressure' strategy. Will covers the recent news that Iran shot down the Ukrainiahttp://traffic.libsyn.com/foreignpolicyfocus/FPF442.mp3n civilian flight, killing 176 people. Will and Kyle...
1/10/20 Gareth Porter on Mike Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Gareth Porter joins Scott once again to discuss what he calls Mike Pompeo's "Gulf of Tonkin incident." In the real Gulf of Tonkin incident, McNamara intentionally misled President Johnson in order to incite war between the U.S. and North Vietnam. Porter says that...
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