US News Texas raises the smoking age to 21. [Link] Officials release video showing corrections officers turning off a body camera then beating a restrained prisoner. [Link] Senator Rand Paul says someone in the deep state prevented John Brennan from losing his...
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5/31/19 Mike Swanson on Trump’s Trade War and the Current Bubble
Mike Swanson joins Scott to talk about President Trump's latest tariff announcement against Mexico. Trump and his team may think these trade policies are good for the economy, says Swanson, but they may also just be using the trade war as a way to shift blame...
News Roundup 6/4/19
Immigration Mexico tells the US, making Mexico a 'safe third country' for people seeking asylum in the US is crossing a red line. The policy would allow the US to send asylum seekers to Mexico. [Link] Russia Trump says Russia informed him most Russians have left...
News Roundup 5/31/19
US News The Steele Dossier author will not speak with a prosecutor investigating the origins of Russiagate. [Link] Trump announces a 5% tariff on Mexican goods entering the US until Mexico stops the flow of migrants. Trump said the tariff would increase to 25% on...
The US Supreme Court Is Right to Rule In Favor of Tribal Sovereignty
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled found that the legal rights of members of the Crow tribe are not void simply because a US state tries to legislate them away. In the case of Herrera v. Wyoming, the US Supreme court overturned the lower courts' findings that tribal...
News Roundup 5/22/19
Mexico The US sanctions several Mexicans alleged to be involved in drug trafficking. [Link] India/Pakistan Nine people were killed in a battle between Indian police and separatists in Kashmir. [Link] Thirteen people died in a Pakistani raid on an IS position. [Link]...
News Roundup 5/3/19
US News Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity explain why the extradition of Julian Assange is an attack on all of us. [Link] Some non-citizen military vets are being deported. [Link] F-35s are grounded 30% of the time because the planes are missing spare...
The Deadly and Destructive Futility of the Drug War
Ever since President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in the 1970s, advocates of this government program, both conservative and liberal, have argued that the only reason why the U.S. government has failed to win the drug war is that government officials have failed...
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