Poor old guy has no idea that he is literally the one and only single human man who was secretary of defense of the United States of America at the start of the Libya war in 2011. The way he remembers it, he had nothing to do with the war at all. "The consequences of...
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News Roundup 6/9/20
US News More than 10,000 Americans have been arrested in protests over the past two weeks. [Link] The White House says it will not support reforms to qualified immunity. [Link] Alabama police assault and arrest a black business owner who reported a robbery. [Link] Liz...
News Roundup 6/3/20
US News A security guard was shot and killed by looters at a St. Louis pawn shop. [Link] The Department of Justice gave the DEA the authority to carry out covert surveillance of the George Floyd protest movement. [Link] One thousand six hundred soldiers are on standby...
News Roundup 5/28/20
US news Trump will sign an executive order on social media soon. [Link] Shippers and insurers say it may be impossible to comply with the Trump administration's new guidance on how not to violate US sanctions. [Link] Secretary of State Pompeo announces that Hong Kong...
News Roundup 5/25/20
US News The Libertarian Party elected Jo Jorgensen as its presidential nominee and Spike Cohen as vice president. [Link] France said it regretted the US decision to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty. [Link] The Trump administration is considering carrying out...
Memorial Day: Remembering the Political Lies that Spurred Mass Killing
On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 70 years, their lies have resulted in the unnecessary deaths of almost 100,000 American soldiers and millions of...
5/22/20 Gareth Porter Debunks Claims of Iranian-Al Qaeda Alliance
Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the decades-long attempt by neoconservative war hawks in the U.S. to link the Iranian government to terrorist activities, most notably those of al Qaeda in Iraq. This was the supposed justification for the killing of Qasem Soleimani...
News Roundup 5/22/20
US News The Senate confirms John Ratcliffe as Director of National Intelligence. [Link] Trump’s arms control negotiator says the US is prepared to spend Russia and China into oblivion to win another nuclear arms race. [Link] China A bipartisan group of Senators will...
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