David Stockman discusses the outrage that has followed President Trump's movement of a few dozen troops out of northeastern Syria. Stockman is quick to clarify that this is not even a withdrawal of troops, just a relocation from one part of the country into another,...
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News Roundup 10/15/19
US News Dallas police shot and killed a woman who was playing video games inside of her home with her nephew. [Link] FBI data shows 30,500 children under the age of ten have been arrested over six years. [Link] Trump sparked outrage when he tweeted about a US Green...
Washington Is Wrong Once Again – Kurds Join Assad To Defend Syria
When President Trump Tweeted last week that “it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars,” adding that the US would be withdrawing from Syria, Washington went into a panic. Suddenly Republicans, Democrats, the media, the think tanks, and the war...
The Party and the Deep State
If we compare our current situation politically and culturally in this country, to the many films Hollywood produces that depict a dystopian authoritarian society, we would be relived to feel we are far from such a reality. Much has been said about a “deep state” that...
The Conservative Attack on Market Freedom
I haven't run an empirical study on the number of articles published, but it sure seems like conservatives are writing more articles than usual condemning economic freedom, and the people who advocate for it. This would make some sense in the Age of Trump when the the...
Should Americans Fight to Protect the Kurds in Syria?
The Washington foreign policy outrage mob was at it again, this time wringing their hands in angst after President Trump announced that he would begin drawing down the American military presence in northern Syria and then finally ordered a full withdrawal of around...
10/11/19 Joe Lauria on The New Yorker’s Partisan Disinformation on Biden and Ukraine
Scott interviews Joe Lauria about his recent Consortium News piece calling out the failures of The New Yorker's Jane Mayer and the rest of the mainstream media's "investigative journalists" to actually do any investigative journalism with respect to the Ukraine...
The Borg Freaks Out guest Joanne Leon
Foreign Policy Focus and Around the Empire's latest swapcast covers the borg's meltdown because some US troops are leaving Syria. Joanne and Kyle recap what has happened in the past two weeks in Syria. The US announced pulling some troops from the Turkey/Syria border....
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