Scott talks to David Stockman about the fate of the economy after the coronavirus-induced shutdown and the multi-trillion dollar bailouts being undertaken by the U.S. government. Stockman is much more concerned about the economic ramifications than about the virus...
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11/21/19 David Stockman on the Phony ‘Ukrainegate’ Witch Hunt
David Stockman discusses everything that's going on with Ukraine and President Trump right now, which he says is nothing more than a shallow ploy to oust the president and to gin up fear around the general threat of Ukrainian and Russian power. Stockman reminds us...
The Great Hero Mikhail Gorbachev: Don’t Build Berlin-style Wall Between Russia and West
Here's a man who deserves some attention when he beseeches: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, has warned against building a new physical or invisible wall between Russia and the West, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In written comments to Reuters...
10/25/19 Jon Schwarz on America’s Long History of Betraying the Kurds
Jon Schwarz gives us a brief history of America's many betrayals of the Kurds since the end of World War I. In a recent article for The Intercept he describes at least eight separate times the U.S. government has used Kurdish fighters to its own advantage and then...
9/23/19 David Stockman on the Demonization of Iran
David Stockman talks about the recent drone strike on a Saudi Arabian oil facility and America's sanctions war in Iran. For some reason, everything in the Middle East seems to be about Iran, as far as American neocons are concerned. They will do anything to turn a...
Federal Judges Are Waging War on the Fourth Amendment
In 1984, as part of Ronald Reagan’s renewed war on drugs, the Drug Enforcement Administration launched Operation Pipeline. This program was inspired by the strategies employed by state troopers in New Mexico who, after pulling somebody over, asked specific questions...
7/30/19 David Stockman on the End of the Mueller Probe
David Stockman reminds us how flimsy the "Russiagate" case has been from the very beginning, and that we should really be focusing on how the investigation even got started in the first place. Stockman claims that President Trump's idea that it would be better to...
Liberty at the Movies: Vice
Vice tells the story of how Richard Chaney went from being expelled from Yale and drinking and fighting in his spare time to becoming the most influential Vice-President in history. Written and directed by Adam McKay who also directed The Big Short, Vice employs the...
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