Daniel Lazare discusses the problems facing Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is dealing with a troubled economy, declining political popularity at home, and failing military excursions abroad. Lazare and Scott also talk about the failure of President Trump to...
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2/19/20 Trita Parsi on Making a Restrained Foreign Policy the Status Quo
Scott talks to Trita Parsi about an event being hosted next week by Parsi's organization, the Quincy Institute, which will pit advocates of a restrained foreign policy against war hawks in a series of panel discussions. The event is Wednesday, February 26 in...
2/17/20 Gareth Porter on the History of the Iran Crisis
Gareth Porter comes on the show to promote his new book, The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War, cowritten with John Kiriakou. Porter and Scott recap the entire modern history of U.S. relations with Iran, focusing on the inflated...
The Senate Takes a Stand on Iran
On FPF #455, I discuss the Senate voting on a War Powers bill to constrain Trump's ability to start a war with Iran. Trump has continued on the presidential tradition of killing whoever he wants, and he is unbound by the Constitution. The House will also need to pass...
Taliban: No Peace Deal If US Troops Stay in Afghanistan
Deputy leader says withdrawal is main thing the Taliban wants With a potential US-Taliban peace deal in Afghanistan potentially at hand, Taliban Deputy Leader Sirajuddin Haqqani wrote an op-ed in the New York Times clarifying exactly what the Taliban hopes to get out...
Judge Says Conditions at U.S. Border Holding Cells Violated the Constitution
Newsweek: A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that conditions at U.S. border holding cells operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency violated the Constitution. In a case first launched in 2015 over conditions at Tucson sector holding facilities, U.S....
MEK Cultists Escape, Describe Their Imprisonment to the NYT
These are the people that Howard Dean, Ed Rendell, Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton and so many other corrupt, bribed war mongers want to put in power in Tehran: Dozens of former members now live independently in Albania. I met 10 of them, who each described being...
Travis County DA Margaret Moore is a Monster
She is the worst criminal in central Texas. Just like all her predecessors. They don't mind putting innocent young women in prison for fake crimes of which they are completely innocent. And they don't mind doing whatever it takes to keep them there long after their...
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