Scott interviews Greg Palast about the situation in Ukraine. They discuss the political, economic and religious context behind Putin's actions. Discussed on the show: Support KPFK Investigative reporter Greg Palast covered Venezuela and oil for BBC Television and The...
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2/18/22 Anne Williamson on How the US Sabotaged Russia’s Economy after the Fall of the Soviet Union
Scott interviews former reporter Anne Williamson about the flawed privatization of Russia after the fall of the USSR. While privatization had mixed success across the former Soviet Bloc, Russia ran into problems immediately with a poor definition of property rights....
Dave Smith Fractures the Mainstream Narrative on Yemen
Next month, the war in Yemen will turn seven. At a minimum, the war has killed 400,000 people. For several years, many notable aid groups have considered Yemen to be the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Over half the population relies on food and medical aid—now...
Lessons from Fentanyl
The use of drugs is sometimes characterized as a victimless crime, since the person who ingests them will bear the negative consequences should something go awry. Supporters of prohibition, who wish for the government to regulate and limit sales and distribution, are...
The Case Against ‘Uyghur Genocide’
In Xinjiang, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is conducting perhaps the most intensive program of social engineering in recent history. It is probably trampling on the human rights of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities, systemically and by design and randomly...
Death Wish: Fighting a Cold War With China
Recently, there has been an increased desire among the military establishment in the United States to intervene in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Such a push has been made by politicians, public figures, and talking heads from both sides of the political...
Don’t Fall for the ‘National Service’ Scam
In the wake of America’s disastrous Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment was enacted to prohibit involuntary servitude. Unfortunately, top newspapers, pundits, and think tanks are now campaigning to nullify that prohibition. Apparently, slavery was evil not because of...
Demonizing Those Who Drive for Freedom
The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom...
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