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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News Roundup 6/1/17
Donald Trump plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Trump has not decided if the US will follow the formal withdraw process. [Link] The amount of student loan money borrowed by deep subprime students increased by 32% in the past year. [Link] 11 Americans...
American Foreign Policy is a Trainwreck
Over the last several years, figuring out whose side America is fighting on in both Iraq and Syria has not always been easy, but in recent weeks that task has become impossible. Instead of hedging bets on a prospective victor in the conflicts raging in either country,...
War Is Not Moral
I recently finished an article where I lay out why I think war itself should be considered immoral, and what an alternative could be. When I was in the military, I struggled knowing that my hard work was helping get people killed. Those who maybe deserved it but also...
The Perfect Squelch from Edward Snowden
You’ve heard it said by statists many times, “Why do you care about the government snooping on you if you’re not doing anything wrong?” It’s hard to top Snowden’s response: “Arguing that you don’t care about free speech, because you have nothing to hide; arguing that...
NPR Summarizes Illegal US Invasion of Panama with Charming Anecdote
On Tuesday's edition (5/30) of NPR's morning news podcast Up First, NPR reported on the death of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega. Here's how hosts Steve Inskeep and David Greene covered the story: Inskeep: And one final note, Manuel Noriega, the former leader...
News Roundup 5/31/17
Ecuador's new president will allow Julian Assange to remain in the country's embassy in London. [Link] The mass data collection of Americans under Obama was more extensive than initially believed. [Link] At least 80 civilians have been killed by countries in the...
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