One would think it’s just a given that when the government or one of their cut-outs is pushing to do something that will harm the individual, you don’t support them in any way, shape or form. Dave Smith paraphrased Daniel McAdams on a recent episode of my podcast...
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News Roundup 12/11/20
US News Reports from CNN and Defense One claim the Department of Defense will end support for most CIA counterterror operations. The move is part of the strategic shift towards focusing on Russia and China. [Link] Senator Rand Paul slowed the passage of the 2021 NDAA...
Will Washington Review the Double Standards of Its Syria File?
The mayhem of the presidential elections left the American policy-makers locked in heated arguments about the future of the U.S. domestic and foreign policy alike. One of the most pressing issues on the agenda is the Middle East developments, especially the U.S. role...
News Roundup 12/7/20
US News The city of Phoenix will pay $3 million to the family of Ryan Whitaker. Ryan was murdered by police for no reason as the police responded to a noise complaint. The officers who murdered Ryan have not been fired. [Link] The US sold $175 billion in weapons in...
Congress Fights to Keep Troops at War guest Dave DeCamp
Dave DeCamp, the assistant news editor at Antiwar.com, returns to COI to talk about several of his recent articles NATO Report: China is the Top Threat Congress to Use NDAA to Block Troop Withdrawals Senate May Block $23 Billion Arms Sale to UAE Trump Threatens to...
12/4/20 Danny Sjursen: The Case Against Jake Sullivan
Danny Sjursen is back for a look at Biden's foreign policy team, in particular his new National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. Sjursen says that Sullivan fits right in with many of Biden's other cabinet picks: extremely talented, well-credentialed, respectable...
12/4/20 Grant Smith on the Jonathan Pollard Exception
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American intelligence analyst who pled guilty to espionage on behalf of Israel in the 1980s. Pollard has been imprisoned for his crimes since then, until he was recently released on parole by the Trump...
12/3/20 Gareth Porter on the Assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Gareth Porter discusses the recent assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by the Israeli government, which continues to claim that Fakhrizadeh was a "top nuclear scientist" in Iran. In reality, explains Porter, Fakhrizadeh was not a nuclear...
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