Jimmy Aldaoud was laid to rest in his home state - Michigan. He was deported to Iraq under the Trump administrations deportation policy even though he had never been to Iraq, did not speak the language, was mentally ill and dependent on insulin. Aldaoud was born in a...
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Wall Street Journal: Rich Get Richer
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2019 | Blog
Due to government economic policy: The decadelong economic expansion has showered the U.S. with staggering new wealth driven by a booming stock market and rising house prices. But that windfall has passed by many Americans. The bottom half of all U.S. households, as...
I Think I Just Saved Democracy. You’re Welcome.
by Arlo Pignotti | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog
My latest hairbrained scheme that just might work. The U.S. Capital used to be in New York City, but became so infested with lobbyists it had to move to Philadelphia, and then again to what is now Washington, D.C. One look at D.C. and obviously we need another move....
Beyond One-Liners: A Guide to the Democratic Debate on Criminal Justice
by The Marshall Project | Aug 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Wednesday night’s debate saw the first extended discussion of criminal justice issues as the Democratic presidential candidates jockey in a crowded and competitive field. Several candidates teed off those issues to score political points and jab at opponents. While...
The Return of Doomsday
by Scott Horton | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog
Former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz and former Senator Sam Nunn have a new article in Foreign Affairs about the nuclear weapons crisis between the United States and Russia. We can't run it as a viewpoint since the authors accept false conventional narratives about...
It Is All About the Benjamins
by Scott Horton | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog
Wealthy Jewish donors meet to decide how to spend their money influencing American politics to help Israel. In this case, they've decided to go after Rep. Rashida Tlaib for supporting BDS. Ron Kampeus writes: At the Jewish federation round table, there was a...
Sheldon Richman From 1991 ‘Ancient History’: US Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention
by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog
Check out this magnificent thing that Sheldon Richman wrote back in August 1991 about "Uncle Sam" ruining everything in the Middle East since back when the U.S. took over for the British.
Who Owns The US Government? Hint, Not The American People
by Steven Woskow | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog
President Trump doubled as chief dealmaker on Tuesday. “We're going to be signing a document today, very large transaction,” said Trump. “It’s a transaction that will be purchasing a lot of Boeing jets, that means a lot of jobs,” he added without elaborating....
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The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Jim Webb: Commies or Trump? Who Is a Threat to the American Dream
Calling everything “communism” might win a news cycle, but it doesn’t explain why so many Americans feel the ladder to a stable life is disappearing. Kyle sits down with Jim Webb to sort propaganda from incentives, starting with Trump’s warnings about socialist...
Rules for Radicals: The Genesis of Tactic Proxy w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on Rules for Radicals
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Larry Johnson: Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Nightmare
A ceasefire memo is supposed to stop wars, not rename them. We start with the weekend’s flashpoint in the Strait of Hormuz and ask a blunt question: if the MOU bans initiating military operations and the threat or use of force, how do we end up with drone attacks,...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Will Iran Force the US Out of the Middle East?
Tucker Carlson saying “I’m out” on the Republican Party is not just a headline, it is a stress test for how American voters think about loyalty, war, and who our politics actually serves. I walk through why his break is landing with millions of people, how Israel and...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: The White House Spin
Something big is shifting in the Middle East, and you can hear it in the gap between what US officials say publicly and what regional actors are doing quietly. We walk through the latest reporting and remarks around Iran, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and a...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Dave DeCamp: Israel First Republicans Are Turning on Trump
Trump says Iran is “being very nice” and “agreeing to everything,” but that sales pitch doesn’t survive contact with the actual reporting. We sit down with Antiwar.com’s Dave DeCamp to sort out what the US Iran memorandum of understanding seems to concede, why both...
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