US News Tennessee ends a program that encouraged inmates to get sterilized in exchange for shorter sentences. [Link] The Supreme Court refuses to hear the case of a veteran attempting to sue the government for medical malpractice. The Supreme Court says the Feres...
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News Roundup 5/22/19
Mexico The US sanctions several Mexicans alleged to be involved in drug trafficking. [Link] India/Pakistan Nine people were killed in a battle between Indian police and separatists in Kashmir. [Link] Thirteen people died in a Pakistani raid on an IS position. [Link]...
News Roundup 5/21/19
US News New Orleans courts are violating the constitution by holding bail hearing without the defense. [Link] A key House panel rejects the Trump Administration proposal to create the space force. [Link] An armed F-16 crashes into a California building. [Link] A...
5/17/19 Mashal Hashem and James Allen on the American Firms Lobbying for Death in Yemen
Mashal Hashem and James Allen, research associates with the Center for International Policy, join Scott to discuss their work on the congressional lobbying by American arms manufacturers. Last year the U.S. sold more than $4.5 billion of weapons to Saudi Arabia alone,...
French activists stop Saudi arms shipment bound for Yemen
The Bahri-Yanbu, a Saudi Arabian cargo ship was scheduled to pick up a load of weapons bound for Yemen at a northern French port. The ship departed France without the weapons a day after a rights group tried to block the cargo on humanitarian grounds. French rights...
News Roundup 5/9/19
A Florida city is attempting to seize the home of an elderly man who let his grass get too long while he was caring for his dying mother. [Link] The US lifts sanctions on a Venezuelan general who defected. [Link] A deputy of Juan Guaido was arrested by the Venezuelan...
Savagery and Its Promoters and Profiteers
Max Blumenthal’s new book, “The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump,” is over 300 pages and wastes not a word. It also does far more than it claims. “This book,” Blumenthal writes, “makes...
News Roundup 4/26/19
US News The FBI and IRS search the home and office of Baltimore’s mayor. [Link] A Georgian businessman claims he was misrepresented in the Mueller report. [Link] A US soldier dies in Iraq. His death is being reported as a non-combat fatality. [Link] Instagram blocks...
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