Post: When asked whether he agrees with Trump’s plan to quickly withdraw troops from Syria, O’Rourke said he would like to see “a debate, a discussion, a national conversation about why we’re there, why we fight, why we sacrifice the lives of American service members,...
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News Roundup 1/17/19
US News Roku deletes the InfoWars app. [Link] US veterans who are suffering from illnesses caused by Burn Pits lose a decade long court case. The Supreme Court rejected their appeal. [Link] US Foreign Policy Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin tells the Senate to allow...
News Roundup 1/16/19
FBI Investigates Trump Glenn Greenwald breaks down the FBI investigation of Trump following the firing of James Comey. Greenwald explains how the investigation turned up nothing and was dangerous. He highlights the failures in the mainstream media’s coverage of the...
FPF #298 – FBI Investigates Trump, Finds Nothing
On FPF #298, I discuss a recently reported FBI investigation of Trump in 2017. The investigation looked into possible Russian influence over Trump. The investigators found no evidence. However, Russiagate conspiracy theorists add the investigation as further proof...
News Roundup 1/15/19
The Neocons The Neocons are returning to influence within the Trump Administration and the Democratic Party. [Link] Glenn Greenwald on the Democratic elite’s reunion with the neocons and the Democratic voters’ move towards militarism. [Link] Matt Taibbi: The Return of...
How Trump Thwarted Calculated Israeli Effort to Keep U.S. in Syria
The Pentagon was not the only party pressing Donald Trump to keep troops in Syria last year. It turns out the Israeli government and its supporters in Washington were working very hard to get the Trump administration to use America’s military presence there to support...
White House Asked Pentagon to Provide Military Option to Attack Iran
In early September, during major protests in Iraq’s Shi’ite southeast, a group fired three mortar shells into the Green Zone of Baghdad. The shells landed in an empty lot, doing no damage and causing no casualties. Months later, it appears to be a much bigger story....
Trump’s Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan
I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling...
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