Patrick Cockburn discusses Iraq’s increasingly desperate economic outlook as oil prices remain at historic lows. Iraq’s economy, like many of those in the Middle East, is hugely reliant on oil, with millions directly on a government payroll that depends...
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No Evidence That Domestic Violence Is Rising Due To COVID-19
A media blitz declares domestic violence (DV) is soaring during COVID-19 because stay-at-home orders have trapped women and children in close proximity to abusive men. Flawed evidence and assumptions underlie this claim but, with the panic of the crisis, it could be...
Supreme Court Rules Against Fourth Amendment
The Supreme Court handed down another opinion eroding the Fourth Amendment in a case that should have never gone to the federal court. Kansas v. Glover revolves around a traffic stop by Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Mehrer. He pulled Charles Glover over after...
Cops Kill Lady
Well see, the "criminal interdiction squad" was breaking into a woman named Breonna Taylor's house in the middle of the night to serve a search warrant -- looking for drugs -- that was connected to an arrest warrant for a man who had already been arrested 10 miles...
5/8/20 Aaron Mehta on the Unresolved Problems with the F-35
Aaron Mehta talks about all the issues with the F-35 fighter jet, a plane that has been in development for 20 years and still can’t do many of the things it was designed for. Mehta describes his long investigation into the F-35 project, which upon initial...
5/8/20 Jeff Deist on America’s Bubble Economy
Scott talks to Jeff Deist about the economic ramifications of the coronavirus, including both the virus itself and the government’s fiscal and monetary response. Deist certainly expects that we could be in for a severe recession, but is mainly of the view that...
News Roundup 5/11/20
US News Mike Maharrey explains how the government broke the meat supply chain decades ago. [Link] Amazon Web Services files another complaint against the Pentagon. The Pentagon is offering a multi-billion contract for a cloud program, known as JEDI. [Link] The UK is...
5/8/20 Arielle Zionts on the Death of Andrea Circle Bear
Scott interviews reporter Arielle Zionts about her recent story about a pregnant South Dakota woman who died of COVID-19 in federal prison. Andrea Circle Bear, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, was charged under an obscure law in connection with a drug sale...
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