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...
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9/18/20 Nasser Arrabyee on the Continued Horrors of the War in Yemen
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
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
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
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...
Rat Bastard H.R. McMaster: Trump ‘in effect is partnering with the Taliban against the Afghan government’
Can you believe the garbage still coming from this loser?: “Well I think what he did with this new policy is he in effect is partnering with the Taliban against, in many ways, the Afghan government.” McMaster said. “So I think that it’s an unwise policy, and I think...
Libertarianism: The Moral & Economic Case. Sheldon Richman & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/S4QzTiCVsb0 The choice is not between cooperation and a Hobbesian war of all against all, but between free and forced association. Sheldon Richman What Social Animals Owe to Each Other 0:00 - Quote from What Social Animals Owe to Each Other 0:34 -...
News Roundup 9/18/20
US News Senate Democrats announced a new bill that will spend $350 billion to counter China. The bulk of the money will be used to fund tech in the US, and $125 million is for weapons. [Link] Trump says he will sign an executive order to promote “patriotic education.”...
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