More revelations that the media narrative over the past years on Syria is false. We knew the truth this whole time. But we're starting to get the "sanity check" on why the media narrative was stuck in la-la land. Because they're no-good dirty liars. Let's complete...
Iraq
Send Thanksgiving Greetings to Chelsea Manning, Heroic Whistleblower In Jail
Working with Wikileaks almost a decade ago, Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning provided some of the most damning revelations on U.S. foreign policy and military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump’s Justice Department indicted Wikileaks’...
News Roundup 11/27/19
US News Three Baltimore men were free after spending 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit. [Link] Rand Paul highlights millions of US tax dollars going to waste on subsidizing Serbian cheese and getting fish addicted to nicotine. [Link] The Supreme...
What’s Wrong with ‘Détente’ Anyway?
On FPF #423, I break down an Oliver Stone tweet saying the US should develop a more diplomatic relationship with Russia. I look at some of the reasons, so many Americans reflexively oppose the US strengthening ties with our nuclear rival. I take on some establishment...
News Roundup 11/26/19
US News A new Medicare tool that is intended to allow seniors to easily pick the most affordable plan regularly gives incorrect information. This leads seniors to pick the wrong insurance plan. [Link] Amazon claims it was not awarded the JEDI contract because of...
OK Boomer, It’s Not Important to Respect (All) Your Elders
Now that I've reached the ripe old of age of 42, I've been married for twenty years, and I've partially raised four children. The older I get, the more I realize how very wrong I was to ever think that a disproportionate number of people older than me possessed some...
News Roundup 11/25/19
US News Trump says the US is working on a deal with the Taliban. [Link] An FBI official is being investigated for changing a document related to Russiagate. [Link] The Navy is pushing back against Trump’s decision to restore the pay and rank of war criminal Navy Seal...
11/22/19 Danny Sjursen on the Failures of America’s War in Iraq
Danny Sjursen talks about the ways his experience in Iraq convinced him of the futility of that war, allowing him to see things that the generals and the war planners often could not. Sjursen says that not all officers paid attention to the local situation or to the...
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