US News Roku deletes the InfoWars app. [Link] US veterans who are suffering from illnesses caused by Burn Pits lose a decade long court case. The Supreme Court rejected their appeal. [Link] US Foreign Policy Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin tells the Senate to allow...
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Trump’s Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan
I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling...
Tulsi Gabbard is Running for President
I'm pretty certain this is a good thing. She knows enough to really fight about it. She's an Iraq War II vet so hawks can't call her a wimp. She's pretty enough to be respectable (Sorry ladies, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but that's how it is. Warm and grandmotherly...
News Roundup 1/10/19
US News Fiat Chrysler will pay $650 million in settlement for emissions cheating. [Link] A lawsuit in Missouri challenges the Constitutionality of laws that prevent people from feeding the homeless. The lawsuit claims the laws infringe on the freedom of religion by...
1/7/19 Gareth Porter on the Khmer Rouge
Gareth Porter comes back on the show to respond to claims that he's an apologist for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. In explaining his 1975 book, Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, he identifies a dangerous trend surrounding American wars abroad, which he himself fell...
News Roundup 1/9/19
US News A federal judge rules the state of Oregon cannot fine a man for calling himself an engineer. The state attempted to fine the man $500. The court found calling himself an engineer was within his first amendment rights. [Link] New Hampshire police arrested a man...
1/5/19 Gareth Porter on Ending the War in Yemen
Gareth Porter tells Scott why he's optimistic that the war in Yemen will soon be coming to an end. For one thing, says Porter, the War Powers resolutions in both congress and the senate have created political pressure to end America's backing of the Saudis, even if...
News Roundup 1/7/19
US News Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke resigns. [Link] A new lawsuit challenges Arkansas anti-BDS law. The law requires all private companies that do business with the state to sign an agreement not to boycott Israel. [Link] Heavily redacted documents released under an...
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