Politico: The activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning attempted suicide on Wednesday, her legal team said in a news release. The statement came only a few days before Manning was scheduled to appear at a court hearing on whether to continue sanctions imposed on her...
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3/6/20 Andrew Cockburn on Russia’s Phony Hypersonic Missile Threat
Scott interviews Andrew Cockburn about Russia's supposed new hypersonic missiles, which are said to have the ability to elude conventional missile defense systems, potentially making the U.S. a target for a nuclear strike with little that could be done to defend...
News Roundup 3/11/20
US News Trump says there may be a very dramatic response by the US government into the economy because of the Coronavirus. [Link]Virginia is expected to enact a new law that will decriminalize under an ounce of marijuana. The law makes possession of under an ounce...
This Is Your Security Force
Well how do you like that? The New York Times: Dr. Helen Y. Chu, an infectious disease expert in Seattle, knew that the United States did not have much time. In late January, the first confirmed American case of the coronavirus had landed in her area. Critical...
3/6/20 Dave DeCamp on the Vindication of Evo Morales
Dave DeCamp discusses a brand new MIT study into the Bolivian presidential election of November 2019 that resulted in the ouster of Evo Morales over claims of election fraud. The new study finds no such evidence, claiming that all the supposed red flags were perfectly...
3/6/20 Branko Marcetic: The Case Against Joe Biden
Scott interviews Branko Marcetic about his new book, Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, which explores the arc of Biden's decades-long political career. Marcetic explains that Biden has never really had serious ideological commitments, and instead has simply...
3/6/20 Dan McKnight on the Defend the Guard Movement
Dan McKnight of BringOurTroopsHome.us talks about the "Defend the Guard" movement popping up in state legislatures around the country. The legislation on which the movement is based calls for an end to the calling up of states' national guard troops to federal service...
3/6/20 Trita Parsi on the Quincy Institute’s Debut Conference
Trita Parsi comes back on the show to recap the Quincy Institute's recent conference in Washington D.C., which put pro-restraint and pro-interventionist figures on panels together to debate the merits of America's foreign policy status quo. Some from the antiwar...
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