Marijana arrests increased in 2017. The increase in arrests were possession charges. [Link] The head of the State Department Legislative Affairs Desk is a former Raytheon lobbyist. [Link] The State Department announces a $330 million weapons sale to Taiwan. [Link]...
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9/21/18 William Hartung on the Military-Industrial Complex and Yemen
William Hartung joins Scott to talk about the reasons for the war in Yemen and its effects in the region. As usual, little attention is being paid to America's role in supporting Saudi Arabia in waging the war, and even less to the role of powerful lobbying from arms...
News Roundup 9/24/18
The Justice Department is investigating a DEA program that possibly led to massacres in Mexico. [Link] Secretary of State Pompeo says the US is planning a series of actions against Venezuela. [Link] The US places sanctions on a Chinese military agency because China...
FPF #250 – Reviewing the National Security Strategy guest Will Porter
On FPF #250, Will Porter returns to the show to evaluate how Trump's foreign policy has achieved the goals set in the National Security Strategy. The Strategy called for the US to combat great powers, including Russia. Will breaks down the results of Trump's policies...
FPF #249 – Trump’s Grand Strategy
On FPF #249, I discuss how Trump's policy with Venezuela and Iran has pushed those nations closer with China. Trump's National Security Review highlight as great power struggles with Russia and China to be the cornerstone to his foreign policy goals. Trump's...
News Roundup 9/20/18
The European Court rules Snowden exposed illegal spying. [Link] A reported UN claim that China massively imprisoned Uyghers, actually originated from the US. The US source did not provide evidence for the claim. North Korea will allow international inspectors to...
Peter Navarro’s Conversion
In a July 20th editorial, the Wall Street Journal offered this pithy appraisal of one of the Trump administration’s top economic advisers on the negative consequences of the burgeoning U.S. trade war with the rest of the world: “Peter Navarro says the harm is a...
Why American Culture Sucks, And Wilsonianism Is Garbage
Russia Jailing People For Fake News: According to Yahoo. So what do "we do about this?" America's Wilsonian evangelism of spreading liberal democracy through military power has always been bunk. So let's not even start. Even so, I have recently been on about...
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