Reason Magazine's Jacob Sullum discusses the case against Joe Biden, including his record on crime, the war in Iraq and the surveillance state. Sullum focuses on Biden's history as a "tough on crime" democrat, explaining the ways Biden worked closely with senate...
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10/2/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 17 of the Assange Extradition Hearing
Kevin Gosztola discusses two major points from the recent round of testimony in the Assange hearing. First, the defense has been trying to emphasize the deplorable conditions Assange would be likely to face in an American supermax prison. This is something a judge...
The ‘Black Bloc’ Anarchists Who Might As Well Be Working For the Republicans
I feel sorry for the black people from the neighborhood who just want the cops to stop murdering them but who -- at least in many major cities -- cannot have a peaceful protest without white anarcho-communists coming and turning the place into a live-action Trump...
The Individual Against the Odds
There is a genre in fiction that celebrates an individual's adversity against seemingly impossible odds. Whether this is a person who takes the war to organised crime (Mack Bolan), a secret agent saving the world for their government (James Bond), a wronged loner lost...
9/25/20 Jessica Katzenstein on the Militarization of American Police
Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America's foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization to the escalation of the war on drugs in the 1990s, when SWAT raids...
The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War and Today’s America
America is definitely not Europe, but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America. For example, we’ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare...
More Support For Biden
From Bush Republicans and the national security state. The Democrats are now the party that represents the interests of the NSC, Wall St., corporate America, Hollywood and the corporate press. Yet, Trump may still win. A bipartisan group of 489 former national...
9/18/20 Dave Smith on the 2020 Election and the Death of RBG
Scott talks to Dave Smith about the upcoming election and the role of the Libertarian Party in presidential politics. Both agree that the right move for the Party, given that it has essentially no chance of winning the presidency in the near future, is simply to...
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