Caitlin Johnstone explains why the glorification of Nikki Haley is unearned. [LInk] Russia is ready to extend the New START Treaty with the US. [Link] Erik Prince is meeting with influential Afghanis to push his plan to privatize the Afghan War. [Link] US...
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News Roundup 10/10/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 10, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump suggests Chicago police use stop and frisk. [Link] Google announces that it will not seek a contract form the Pentagon to build a cloud network. [Link] The hawkish Trump administration is pushing the world closer to annihilation. [Link] US Ambassador to the UN...
10/3/18 Dan Cohen on Syria, Blowback, and Al-Qaeda’s Rehabilitation
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Filmmaker Dan Cohen comes back on the show to discuss his latest project, "The Syria Deception," a short documentary exposing the propaganda campaign in Hollywood and the media to rehabilitate Al-Qaeda in the eyes of the American public. Cohen and Scott discuss...
News Roundup 10/5/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 5, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump is expected to sign the FAA Reauthorization bill on Friday. [Link] In a letter to Senator Kaine, the Pentagon claims to have the authority to conduct near limitless military actions. [Link] The US pulls out of international agreements to avoid being subject to...
FPF #255 – The Weekly Standard’s Horrific FP
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 5, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #255, I discuss two articles by The Weekly Standard Editorial Board. The first article calls for the US to return to the Bush Doctrine. The editors believe that the US needs to very hawkish policy with Iran. The second article celebrates Trump's reversal on his...
News Roundup 10/4/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 4, 2018 | News Roundup
Patrick Cockburn: With ISIS Defeated, Trump is now Targeting Iran The UN high court rules the US must lift some sanctions against Iran. In response, the US withdrew from a 1955 treaty with Iran. The US claims that leaving the treaty invalidates the court's ruling....
News Roundup 10/3/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 3, 2018 | News Roundup
The US Envoy to NATO threatens to destroy Russian missiles the US considers in violation of the INF Treaty. [Link] The Envoy walked back the threat on Twitter. [Link] France is accusing Iran of plotting a bombing against an Iran separatists group's rally in Frane....
News Roundup 10/2/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 2, 2018 | News Roundup
Eric Margolis gives his take on Trump's UN speech. [Link] A US Navy destroyer and a Chinese Navy ship had a close encounter in the South China Sea. [Link] North Korea needs to see goodwill moves from the US for North Korea to denuclearize. [Link] A US airstrike kills...
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RIP Shinzo Abe
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated yesterday, in a country with a long history of nonviolence post-World War II, which Abe himself attempted assiduously to reverse. Hegemonic Spread and Lethal Creep: The Case of Japan
Should the U.S. Be Sending Weapons to Ukraine? Scott Horton vs. Cathy Young at the Soho Forum
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The Antiwar Comic: It Never Ends
And it only cost us millions of wasted tax dollars! More comics at the Webcomic Factory!
New Book, Hotter Than the Sun, Out Now!
Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Scott Horton interviews Daniel Ellsberg, Seymour Hersh, Gar Alperovitz, Hans Kristensen, Joe Cirincione and more. This book contains interviews conducted over more than a decade with experts of all descriptions —...
Climate Lockdowns Are Here
In a development that has been widely broadcast for decades (to those tuned to the correct frequency), Western countries have begun implementing the next step in the government-by-emergency manual. Indeed, once the public allows government to immolate its...
Substantive Due Process
[T]he conservatives reject substantive due process, which they see as a contradiction in terms that authorizes judges to legislate. If the term sounds odd, it would be odder still to dismiss the idea. As Roger Pilon writes, “By ‘law’ [in due process of law] the...
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