Boy does this have a ring of truth to it: “The one interesting aspect of the book is how little [MacNamara] understood about what was going on or understands today. He doesn’t even understand what he was involved in. I assume he’s telling the truth. The book has a...
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China Lashes Out After FBI & MI5 Accuse Beijing of International Crimes
Beijing has rejected allegations from US and British officials that it is stealing from Western firms, calling the claim “completely far-fetched” while slamming the United States as the “biggest threat to world peace and development.”
7/1/22 Alan MacLeod on the Alarming Number of Ex-FBI Agents Working at Twitter
Download Episode. Scott talks with Alan MacLeod about the reporting he’s done on the surprising number of former FBI agents who have joined the content moderation department at Twitter. He runs through some specific examples of people who have spent their careers...
Decorated Cop Pleads Guilty to Distributing 12,000 Files of Child Porn (Including Infants)
When residents of Rockville, Maryland saw Daniel Morozewicz, 38, patrol their neighborhoods, they likely felt protected. But they were not. Morozewicz is a child predator of the worst kind and has since admitted to running a horrifying child sexual abuse material...
Russia Will No Longer Depend on West, Deepen Trade Ties with China – Lavrov
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country would pivot its economic relationships away from the West and towards China, suggesting Moscow could even rebuff an offer to reopen trade with the US and its allies. Speaking with reporters in Moscow on Monday,...
The Lab Leak Hypothesis, Evolution, Innovation, & Rational Optimism. Matt Ridley & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/DPEP1TGyqqQ The cumulative acceleration of knowledge by specialists that allows us each to consume more and more different things by each producing fewer and fewer, is I submit, the central story of humanity. - Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist, p....
New Report Reveals ICE Spent Billions Spying on Americans
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent $2.8 billion to surveil Americans from 2008 to 2021. The report titled “American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century” from the Georgetown Law Center for Privacy and Technology details how ICE used warrantless,...
US Abandoned Billions in Military Gear Meant for Afghan Army, Some Sent to Ukraine
When the last American soldier left Kabul in August, the US left behind $7 billion in military equipment it had given to the Afghan Army, more than one-third of all the gear donated over 16 years.
Lawsuit Update: Woman, Given Speeding Ticket on Way to Work, Shot By Cop
In June of 2020, family and friends of Hannah Fizer, 25, were shocked to learn that their beloved daughter and friend had been killed during a stop over an alleged speeding violation. Then, four months later, they learned there would be no justice and the officer who...
We Ended the War in Iraq (Yes Again, But Also Not Really)
On Thursday, the Pentagon announced the formal end to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, but all 2,500 troops that are currently in the country will stay in an advisory role. The Biden administration agreed with Iraq back in July to end the U.S. combat mission by the...
COI #181: Taking on the Covid Cult guests Pete Quiñones & Joanne Leon
On COI #181, Peter R. Quiñones and Joanne Leon return to the show to discuss the Cult of Covid. Joanne and Pete take on the most sacred of the guiding principles on masks, vaccines and Dr. Truth-Science himself, Anthony Fauci. Pete and Joanne have been among the most...
9/24/21 Barbara Grant on What Really Happened on the Final Day of the Waco Siege
Scott is joined by Barbara Grant to discuss her new documentary which gives an experts perspective on the infrared footage capture on the final day of the Waco siege. Grant was busy working on a satellite when it happened in 1993, but she later became interested in...
COI #166: The Architects of the Afghan War Failed Upwards
On COI #166, Scott Spaulding – host of Why I'm Antiwar – returns to the show for the third installment of the 'Villains of the Afghan War' series. Scott breaks down the role of David Kilcullen, the godfather of counterinsurgency under the Bush administration....
Five Myths About Drone Warfare
Myth 1. It's "precision bombing" Myth 2. Drone warfare is ethical Myth 3. If the war is legal so is the weapon Myth 4. Drones are a triumph of technology Myth 5. Drones are effective Aerial bombardment has not created peaceful states, nor defeated IS, nor stopped the...
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