Scott talks with Ramzy Baroud about the ongoing crisis for Palestinians in the West Bank, and in particular in the Gaza Strip, who face forced confinement and military occupation as parts of their daily lives. Baroud is reminded of the partial quarantine most...
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News Roundup 4/17/20
US News Over 5 million people filed for unemployment this week. Some experts are predicting 20% unemployment by the end of April. [Link] CNN attacked Elon Musk for failing to donate 1,000 ventilators he promised to donate. Musk hit back with proof he did send the...
News Roundup 4/16/20
US News A Pentagon inspector general found ethical violations in the Pentagon awarding the JEDI contract. The contract is for the Pentagon’s cloud and has been the subject of several lawsuits. [Link] The US says Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon. [Link] Trump...
News Roundup 4/15/20
US News The coronavirus and government regulations in response to it could start to cause food shortages as supply lines are being disrupted. [Link] The Pentagon will extend its troop movement freeze beyond May 11th. [Link] Trump announces he is cutting the US funding...
4/10/20 Gareth Porter on Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 American Flu Pandemic
Gareth Porter discusses the parallels between the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 Spanish Flu. Though it’s commonly called “Spanish Flu” Porter reminds us that it really originated in Kansas, where it was first spread to American troops at a...
Josh Rogin is a Syrian al Qaeda-Supporting Scumbag, But
This article in the Post about how the State Department was warning that a Coronavirus could escape from the Wuhan Lab's insufficient containment system seems credible. "Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited...
America, We Have To End the Wars Now
The Coronavirus Crisis Makes It Clear Can anyone think what our society might have spent six and a half trillion dollars on instead of 20 years of war in the Middle East for nothing? How about the trillion dollars per year we keep spending on the military on top of...
News Roundup 3/31/20
Coronavirus The coronavirus is spreading the US prison system. Nearly 350 Guards and inmates have tested positive. Prisoners report having no way to protect themselves from the virus.[Link] The first federal inmate dies from the coronavirus. [Link] The Pentagon...
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