Assange Julian Assange's lawyers apply for bail because of the risk to Assange’s health posed by the coronavirus. [Link] Afghanistan Secretary of State Pompeo met with the two men claiming to be the president of Afghanistan to try to negotiate a settlement. The...
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Did America Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan? guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 9, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
Will Porter returns to Foreign Policy Focus to discuss the International Criminal Court's inquiry into US war crimes committed in Afghanistan. Will looks at the alleged crimes, like torture, that will be investigated. Kyle updates the situation in Afghanistan a week...
Envoys Gather in Doha for Signing of Afghanistan Peace Deal: Growing optimism about peace process after week of violence reduction
by Jason Ditz | Mar 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Representatives from dozens of countries, foreign ministers or generally envoys, have flocked to the Qatar city of Doha this weekend, for the planned Saturday signing of the Afghanistan peace deal between the US and the Taliban.After a successful week of reduction of...
Is the Afghan Peace Deal Going to Bring Peace? guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 2, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss the peace deal signed by the Taliban and the US. The deal did not include the Afghan government. It calls for the US to drop troop levels to 8,600 within 135 days and a full withdraw of US forces in 14 months. The deal is rumored...
Afghan Govt to Split Just as US Deal Reached With Taliban?
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2020 | Blog
Ashraf Ghani has been declared the winner of last year's election. Abdullah Abdullah and Gen. Rashid Dostum are talking about creating their own competing state in revenge. Good luck, Afghans.
Taliban: No Peace Deal If US Troops Stay in Afghanistan
by Jason Ditz | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Deputy leader says withdrawal is main thing the Taliban wants With a potential US-Taliban peace deal in Afghanistan potentially at hand, Taliban Deputy Leader Sirajuddin Haqqani wrote an op-ed in the New York Times clarifying exactly what the Taliban hopes to get out...
Peace with the Taliban?
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 19, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #454, I discuss recent progress made in negotiations with the Taliban. The US and Taliban will soon implement a reduction in violence pact. If successful, the pact could be the first step in a peace deal between the US and the Taliban. However, there are a lot...
Taliban: Afghanistan Peace Deal Terms Finalized
by Jason Ditz | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen reported on Monday that the US and Taliban have finalized the language of the Afghanistan peace deal. The US has not confirmed this yet, but had indicated in recent days that such a deal was imminent. Afghan CEO Abdullah Abdullah...
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Aesthetics and Frequencies w/Mano Elia
Mano is back to discuss the image of God in the world.
The Welfare-State Paradox
"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...
The Steady Rise in Living Standards
"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...
Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe
The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...
The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
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