People cannot care about kids starving in Yemen if they don’t know kids are starving in Yemen. That’s where you come in. Scott Horton "Losing my child while I am watching is breaking my heart," Mohammed Yousuf says as he tries to calm his crying son. "I feel so...
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James Douglass, the Kennedy Assassination, and a Missed Dinner in Austin
“Austin All Agog Over Kennedy Visit Friday” read the headline of the Austin American Statesman. The Texas capital was sparing no expense in welcoming the President of the United States. City schools were set to close early so that children could see the motorcade, and...
News Roundup 12/31/20
US News Two Kentucky police officers were fired over the murder of Breonna Taylor. The two officers who were fired are the officer who killed Taylor and the officer who lied to get the warrant needed for the night raid on Taylor’s apartment. [Link] The Department of...
12/22/20 Mark Perry: Lloyd Austin Isn’t Who You Think He Is
Mark Perry talks about General Lloyd Austin, Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense. Austin is a military man through and through, but he isn't your run-of-the-mill war hawk, explains Perry—instead, Austin has shown himself to be a strong advocate for diplomacy and...
12/18/20 Danny Sjursen on Nagorno-Karabakh and the Ethiopian Civil War
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about two prominent conflicts facing the world in 2020. In Nagorno-Karabakh, an uneasy, Russian-brokered peace deal is holding between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but Sjursen worries that this peace won't last forever, as each country still...
Welcome to Zombie Pharm
Imagine a world where you were required to cover your face and nose whenever you stepped out of your home or when anyone came to your door. No one would know when you smiled or frowned and the difficulty of communicating the ideas you attempted to share would...
War Resisters, Take Back the First Amendment!
The American antiwar movement has an illustrious history of peacefully highlighting and denouncing the criminality of our country’s military apparatus. From Henry David Thoreau’s tax resistance to the Mexican-American War, to SDS’s protests against the Vietnam War, to...
Proponents OF Forever War In Syria Can’t Answer One Question Why?
Dan DePetris at Responsible Statecraft Adesnik and Green observe that “U.S. operations in Syria have demonstrated that long-term efforts are sustainable, requiring the commitment of modest military assets deployed in a largely supporting role.” But one has to ask the...
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