US News St. Louis public defenders release an app to combat an abusive bail system. [Link] Customs and Border Patrol plan to ramp up facial recognition and biometric scanning to all people entering the country. [Link] ICE agents regularly make mistakes on immigration...
Pakistan
8/9/19 Eric Margolis on the Dangers of Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan
Scott interviews Eric Margolis about the recent legal change that will now allow non-Kashmiris to buy land in Kashmir. Kashmir is majority Muslim, and has been the subject of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan for years. The fear is that the legal change...
News Roundup 8/8/19
US News Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis returns to his position as a board member at General Dynamics. [Link] New SecDef Mark Esper says the US will not overreact to NK missile tests. [Link] Venezuela Bolton said the US is ready to target countries that...
Tulsi, Kashmir, and Iran
On FPF #384 I cover Tulsi Gabbard's positions on BDS, India's crackdown in Kashmir, and Iran possibly seizing an Iranian ship in the Gulf. Last week, Tulsi voted for a bill that condemned BDS. She received some criticism from her base and has now become a cosponsor of...
Tulsi Gabbard’s Chance to Make the Race About the Wars
Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Representative from Hawaii, is running for president. She’s one of the only Democrats in the race who says anything meaningful or interesting about foreign policy. Unlike the rest of them, she’s decided to make it the center of her campaign....
News Roundup 7/24/19
US News Trump is forming a close relationship with Lockheed’s CEO. [Link] The Chicago police department carried out more than 11,000 search warrants over five years. The police frequently went to the wrong home, and raids ended up with guns pointed in the faces of...
News Roundup 7/22/19
US News A Pennsylvania school district sends letters to parents threatening to place children in foster care over unpaid lunch bills. [Link] A man has been released from prison after serving 28 years for a murder he did not commit. [Link] The US sanctions four...
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel
Just saw An Inconvenient Sequel (2017) expecting the latest data on climate change, but just got more of Al Gore making this all about him, going on and on about himself, how people around the world recognize him in the streets and mistakenly think he’s the current...
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