Immigration A six-year-old girl dies in the Arizona desert of heat stroke. Smugglers left her and other migrants in the desert about a day before she died. [Link] Trump cuts over $500 million in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras because their citizens...
Syria
Attacking Iran Would Unleash Chaos on the Middle East
Undeterred by decades of carnage and the disastrous outcomes of prior conflicts, ideologues within the Trump administration are clamoring for military action against Iran. The exact basis for this escalation varies. Common among the allegations are concerns over...
6/14/19 Peter Ford on the Jihadis Left in Syria
Scott talks to Peter Ford about the latest in Syria and Iraq. America and the allied "coalition" have made the same mistake over and over again in the Middle East, says Ford, and President Trump seems to be walking the same path; he claims one day that he wants to...
6/14/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Disastrous Results of US Policy in the Middle East
Scott talks to the great Patrick Cockburn about war and politics in Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and the general disaster that has resulted from America's thinking it could completely remake the Middle East. Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent...
News Roundup 6/12/19
US News The US formally request the UK extradite Julian Assange. [Link] The Trump administration calls for Saudi Arabia to show tangible progress into the investigation of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. [Link] Senate Democrats and Republicans are working to block...
News Roundup 6/11/19
Journalism Former intelligence officers now have jobs in the media, and their message is Assange is not a journalist. [Link] Australian police raided a media network that published information about war crimes committed in Afghanistan. [Link] Venezuela The UN reports...
News Roundup 6/7/19
US News Bernie Sanders calls for the end of the occupation of Palestine. [Link] YouTube will begin to ban videos that promote extremist ideologies and conspiracies. [Link] Ben Norton breaks down the legacy media misreporting Kim Jong-un had purged his nuclear...
Pentagon’s Phony Iran ‘Evidence’: New Rationale for US Intervention?
Last week a senior Pentagon official accused Iran of having sabotaged four oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on May 12 and of firing a rocket into Baghdad’s Green Zone on May 19. Iran executed these events, he said, either directly or through regional “proxies.” But...
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