Scott interviews Gareth Porter about his coverage of a recently-released document liberated by Daniel Ellsberg when he originally leaked the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s. This document, Porter explains, shows how in 1958 the military wanted to use tactical nuclear...
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News Roundup 5/27/21
US News Only 22% of high school seniors tested proficient in science. [Link] The Pentagon is refusing to disclose troop numbers in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. [Link] Great Power Ukraine says it is upset that NATO states have not taken action to make Ukraine an...
5/20/21 Gareth Porter on the Increasing Power Shift Toward Hard-Liners in Iran
Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the national political scene in Iran, where, in large part thanks to U.S. intervention, the population is increasingly aligning behind the most conservative forces, and moving away from President Rouhani. Iranians, Porter says, have...
News Roundup 5/11/21
US News Overdose deaths in Washington State were up 30% in 2020. [Link] The FDA gives Pfizer emergency approval to give its vaccine to patients as young as 12. [Link] Susan Hennessey was named to the National Security Division of the Justice Department. Hennessey was...
5/7/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Inhumane Treatment of America’s National Security Whistleblowers
Kevin Gosztola discusses the alarming new developments in the case of Daniel Hale, a whistleblower who helped expose the U.S. military's secret drone assassination program during the Obama administration. Because it's so easy to obtain convictions of whistleblowers,...
5/7/21 Heather Brandon-Smith on the Effort to Repeal the 2002 Iraq AUMF
Scott talks to Heather Brandon-Smith of the Friends Committee on National Legislation about the effort to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force. Although the 2002 AUMF has been less widely cited as grounds for America's ever-expanding wars in...
The No Good, Cowardly Chickenhawk John Bolton
When President Joe Biden announced a new date for the full withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan, there arose like clockwork a great, melancholic moan from the same media figures who have been defending the war for the past 20 years. Perhaps none was so...
News Roundup 5/2/21
US News Two Texas police officers were fired for committing crimes on the job. One officer punched a teenage boy for no reason. The other officer pulled his gun and threatened to kill people without cause. [Link] The US announced it will cut its embassy in Moscow...
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