Assange Arrested London police have arrested Julian Assange. Ecuador withdrew his asylum. [Link] US News The Department of Defense has awarded $1 billion in contracts to two companies to build portions of the southern border wall. [Link] Attorney General Barr says he...
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4/8/19 John Kiriakou on Chelsea Manning’s ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Moment
Scott talks to John Kiriakou about Chelsea Manning, who is refusing to testify against Wikileaks. Kiriakou explains that she probably doesn't want to incriminate herself by forgetting things while rehashing details of previous testimony. Scott and Kiriakou both agree...
Truth Is an Outlaw in Washington
“Truth isn’t truth,” declared Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, on Meet the Press last August. Giuliani’s comment was the “Trump era’s epitaph,” according to a Washington Post columnist. But truth really is defined differently inside the Beltway — when...
News Roundup 3/5/19
US News Chelsea Manning has been subpoenaed to testify to a federal grand jury. It is suspected that the subpoena is for the sealed indictment against Julian Assange. Manning will fight the subpoena. [Link] California police officers who tased a man to death will not...
2/15/19 James Bamford on Maria Butina, the Spy who Wasn’t
James Bamford talks about the case of Maria Butina, a young Russian woman educated in the U.S. who was accused of spying for the Russians and sabotaging the 2016 presidential election. Butina was indicted and spent months in solitary confinement, which is technically...
2/15/19 Kate Gould on Ending US Participation in the War in Yemen
Kate Gould joins the show to talk about her work with the Friends Committee on National Legislation lobbying for an end to U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The house just passed a resolution invoking the War Powers Act, which should send the motion to...
Revenge, the Plot for Cinema and Life.
Wick John Wick is an exciting character and series of films. It fits nicely inside the ranks of a classic genre of fiction, especially in the masculine action film era which died out in the late 1990s. Though we have had glimmers of that period of action heroes,...
Donald Trump, America’s Elected Dictator
After losing his battle against Congress to secure funding for his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, President Trump is declaring that that the congressional rebuff is irrelevant anyway. The reason? Trump is declaring an “emergency” under the “National Emergencies...
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