Post: When asked whether he agrees with Trump’s plan to quickly withdraw troops from Syria, O’Rourke said he would like to see “a debate, a discussion, a national conversation about why we’re there, why we fight, why we sacrifice the lives of American service members,...
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News Roundup 1/17/19
US News Roku deletes the InfoWars app. [Link] US veterans who are suffering from illnesses caused by Burn Pits lose a decade long court case. The Supreme Court rejected their appeal. [Link] US Foreign Policy Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin tells the Senate to allow...
News Roundup 1/15/19
The Neocons The Neocons are returning to influence within the Trump Administration and the Democratic Party. [Link] Glenn Greenwald on the Democratic elite’s reunion with the neocons and the Democratic voters’ move towards militarism. [Link] Matt Taibbi: The Return of...
How Trump Thwarted Calculated Israeli Effort to Keep U.S. in Syria
The Pentagon was not the only party pressing Donald Trump to keep troops in Syria last year. It turns out the Israeli government and its supporters in Washington were working very hard to get the Trump administration to use America’s military presence there to support...
Trump’s Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan
I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling...
News Roundup 1/11/19
The Pentagon The acting Defense Secretary has been critical of the F-35. [Link] The Pentagon accepts midair refueling tankers from Boeing despite flaws. [Link] Two Green Berets plea guilty to attempting to smuggle about $1 million worth of cocaine from Colombia to the...
News Roundup 1/10/19
US News Fiat Chrysler will pay $650 million in settlement for emissions cheating. [Link] A lawsuit in Missouri challenges the Constitutionality of laws that prevent people from feeding the homeless. The lawsuit claims the laws infringe on the freedom of religion by...
A Liberal New Year’s Via Ralph Raico
It's a tough new year for me, with Trump and everything. He, and his opponents, have made me feel like I live in crazytown more than anything else in recent history. At least (per the recent "Vice" movie) Dick Cheney just seemed like a lying jerk. I was listening...
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