"I don't feel good." the mental toddler says. "Tell my mom I love her." That would be his treacherous back-stabbing betrayer of a mother who called the government death squad to deal with his temper tantrum in the first place. It is beyond lucky what a horrible shot...
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News Roundup 9/22/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 22, 2020 | News Roundup
US News As details emerge on the Oracle/Walmart deal to buy TikTok, Trump is threatening to block the deal if it does not give enough control to American companies. The deal will create 'TikTok Global,' which will provide the TikTok to Americans. The Chinese company...
Generals Are Bureaucrats With Extra Stars
by Ryan McMaken | Sep 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States has always had a love affair with certain generals. George Washington, of course, was immensely popular, and thirteen U.S. presidents were generals before they were president. But prior to the Second World War, generals as a group were not revered or...
Julian Assange’s Persecuted Heroism
by Ron Paul | Sep 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
It is dangerous to reveal the truth about the illegal and immoral things our government does with our money and in our name, and the war on journalists who dare reveal such truths is very much a bipartisan affair. Just ask Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who was...
9/18/20 Gareth Porter: Another Blow for ‘Russiagate’ Truthers
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the slow death of the "Russiagate" narrative, which has been allowed to live on mainly because of deliberate obfuscation by democrats and the mainstream media. Rarely do they lie outright about the facts, says Porter—instead they will...
9/18/20 Muhammad Sahimi on Pompeo’s Dangerous Iran Failures
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi discusses Mike Pompeo's continual efforts to provoke a war between the U.S. and Iran, or to incite regime change from within. His "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign is part of the quest to attain one of these outcomes, a policy that Sahimi thinks is...
9/18/20 Grant Smith on the Exaggerated Significance of Evangelical Zionists in America
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the role of evangelical Christians in the Zionist movement in America. Grant examines the premise that evangelicals are the most significant driving force behind American support for Israel, a popular notion ever since George Bush Sr....
The Endless Fantasy Of American Power
by Steven Woskow | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog
"Saving the United States’ soul will require an honest reckoning with post–Cold War U.S. foreign policy and, above all, with the reckless misuse of military power that forms its abiding theme." Andrew Bacevich at Foreign Affairs: In this year’s presidential election...
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Good News on North Korea; Rodman Is Returning
Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman is on his way to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong Un. That's good news for Kim, since he's a fan. It's also good news for fans of peace. According to Bloomberg, the trip is going to be Rodman's fifth to the country, and he has...
News Roundup 6/13/17
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Trump's travel ban. [Link] Senate Democrats will join with Rand Paul in opposing a weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The vote on the weapons sale could occur this week. [Link] Alexei Navalny and over 1000 other protesters...
More Foreign Policy Continuity as Trump Affirms NATO Mutual Defense
Last Friday, President Trump reaffirmed the US commitment to Article 5 of NATO, which commits the US to come to the defense of any other NATO member. Trump's decision is in keeping with the US's traditional position on the topic. However, it is somewhat at odds with...
Drug Overdose Deaths, 2016: Casualties of War
Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, the New York Times‘s Josh Katz reports. In 2016, overdoses claimed somewhere between 59,000 and 65,000 lives. That’s more American lives than were lost in the Vietnam war. It’s 20 times the...
News Roundup 6/12/17
Trump confirms the US is committed to NATO's mutual defense pact. The defense pact is known as Article 5 and requires all NATO countries to come to the defense of a NATO country that gets attacked. [Link] Trump says Qatar has a funded terrorism at a high level and he...
Arbitration With China: A Walk-Through Example
To wrap up my discussion on using arbitration instead of war, I'll offer a concrete example of how it would work. I've repeatedly mentioned the situation in the South China Sea, so I'll use that in this example. Arbitration can succeed in this scenario if it can...
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