Democrats Scuttle Marijuana Decriminalization Vote Over Fears of Not Being Deferential Enough to Cop Lobbyists A planned House vote on a bill to decriminalize the possession of marijuana was canceled on Thursday under pressure from law enforcement lobbyists and other...
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News Roundup 9/21/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 21, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The US will ban WeChat and new downloads of TikTok. Users with the TikTok app already downloaded will be able to use it until mid-November. Trump continues to demand the platform be sold to an American company. [Link] After ByteDance announced it would sell...
Is ‘Putin’s Puppet’ Supporting Anti-Russian Attacks in Ukraine?
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 21, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On Conflicts #10 Kyle and Will break down new US demands on Russia before it will agree to extend the New START Treaty, a new US deployment in Syria, and Washington's attempt to revive UN sanctions on Iran. Qatar is set to become the US's latest "major non-NATO ally,"...
9/18/20 Tana Ganeva on the Death of Holly Barlow-Austin
by Scott Horton | Sep 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Tana Ganeva about her recent article detailing the death of a woman due to medical neglect in one of America's worst private jails. Holly Barlow-Austin, an HIV patient, was detained for violating probation starting in April, and within a few short...
9/18/20 Nasser Arrabyee on the Continued Horrors of the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee discusses the war in Yemen, where the Trump administration is now approaching four years of continued support for Saudi Arabia in their war of genocide against the Yemeni population. The UN estimates that close to a quarter of a million civilians have...
9/18/20 Joe Lauria: Day Nine of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria comments on the last few days of Julian Assange's extradition hearing. He notes a movement on the part of the prosecution away from their previous tack, which was to argue that Assange was not really a journalist, but actually engaging in hacking and...
9/17/20 Ted Snider on the Bahrain ‘Peace’ Agreement
by Scott Horton | Sep 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Snider comes back for an update on the recent round of "peace deals" conducted by President Trump over the last few weeks. Now Bahrain has joined the normalization agreement between the U.S., Israel and the UAE, a move that Trump and his allies are hailing as...
R.I.P. Stephen F. Cohen
by Steven Woskow | Sep 19, 2020 | Blog
Caitlin Johnstone "One of the few precious voices of sanity on Russia". Stephen F. Cohen, an eminent historian whose books and commentaries on Russia examined the rise and fall of Communism, Kremlin dictatorships and the emergence of a post-Soviet nation still...
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Is Arbitration A Practical Alternative To War?
In my last blogpost, I discussed how the US government could be constitutionally restructured to use arbitration instead of war to conduct foreign policy. If every great power was structured this way, then obviously arbitration would be a practicable alternative to...
The Antiwar Comic: What is Terrorism?
Terrorism is just a tactic when you get right down to it. And the malleable word can be applied to the times. At least that's my theory. For more comics visit The Webcomic Factory.
Key Takeaways from the Comey Senate Testimony
The Comey Senate hearing has finally come and gone. And from a quick look at the media headlines covering the story, it appears just about everyone got what they were hoping for--namely more support for whatever conclusion they previously held. Here's a quick round-up...
Portland Mayor’s Attack on Speech Is Illegal and Counterproductive
UPDATE: Since the time of writing, the first of these events went ahead as scheduled. The event stayed relatively peaceful, and happily, didn't devolve into a full-on melee like those seen recently in some demonstrations in northern California. The second rally,...
Free Speech: Ted Wheeler is the Enemy He Invokes
Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, wants to control who can say — and hear — what. He’s asked the federal government to cancel one permit and deny another, both for “alt-right” demonstrations at Portland’s Shrunk Plaza. His excuse: Portland is “in mourning”...
CIA Torture Report: Where’s Our Next Heroic Whistleblower?
In December of 2014, The US Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence issued a report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s “inadequate and deeply flawed” interrogation techniques, concluding that those practices were “not effective” and that they were “far more...
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