President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled his planned summit with Kim Jong Un, scolding the North Korean leader in a letter for "tremendous anger and open hostility" while also bluntly reminding Kim of the United States' nuclear prowess. The scuttling of the...
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News Roundup 5/24/18
Amazon is providing facial recognition technology to police. [Link] A federal judge rules Trump cannot block people on Twitter. [Link] The US government operated a DC streetcar that cost $23 to move one passenger one mile. [Link] The Red Cross estimates 1,200...
FPF #197 – Libyan Style
On FPF #197, I discuss John Bolton's plan for North Korea to undergo Libyan style denuclearization. In December 2003 Libya quickly gave up a nuclear weapons program. In 2011, NATO, led by the US, went to war with Libya. The war was based on myths pushed by Hillary...
FPF #195 – New Offensives in Afghanistan & Yemen
On FPF #195, I discuss new offensives in Afghanistan and Yemen. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have begun their Spring Offensive. The Taliban killed over 100 Afghan soldiers in a week and seized two district headquarters. In Yemen, Saudi backed forces started an...
5/11/18 John Feffer on Trump's diplomatic approach to North Korea
Editor of FPIF.org John Feffer returns to the show to discuss his latest articles "A Nobel For Donald Trump Over Korea?" and "The Banality of Haspel." Feffer begins by explaining why, even if Trump negotiates peace in the Korean Peninsula he would not be deserving of...
NYT Examines How History Impacts Korean Talks–but Its Own Memory Is Fuzzy
In a New York Times news analysis (4/29/18) examining how the overthrow of Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi after he agreed to halt his nuclear program might influence North Korean thinking about disarmament, the Times’ Peter Baker writes that “President Barack Obama and...
4/27/18 Tim Shorrock on the Latest Developments on the Korean Peninsula
Tim Shorrock returns to the show to discuss the encouraging developments on the Korean peninsula and the prospects for peace. Scott also takes the opportunity to give a brief history lesson on how the situation with North Korea got to this point (spoiler: it was...
News Roundup 4/20/18
Mattis and Bolton have differing views on US foreign policy. [Link] Lockheed Martin wins a $928 million contract to build hypersonic weapons. [Link] Miguel Diaz-Camel will be the next leader of Cuba. [Link] South Korean President Moon says North Korea is looking to...
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