It's just one throwaway line in CIA asset Ken Dilanian’s new NBC piece on the whiz-bang, super-neato, space-age, Hollywood movie-like, special, high-technology that made the assassination possible. "Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details." And dammit, I...
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1/10/20 Robert Naiman on the new War Powers Resolutions
Scott talks to Robert Naiman about the efforts in congress and the senate to oppose the war in Yemen and stymie any escalation in a conflict with Iran. Naiman is optimistic that a concurrent resolution against the war in Yemen, which Trump cannot veto, will have...
1/10/20 Francis Boyle on the Real Reason to Impeach Trump
Francis Boyle explains why President Trump should be impeached—not for the charges of corruption and abuse of power in Ukraine, but for his war crimes in continuing the aggressive wars of the Bush and Obama administrations. Boyle thinks that Trump's behavior with...
1/10/20 Matthew Hoh on Who’s Really Responsible for American Casualties in Iraq
Scott talks to Matthew Hoh about the claim that General Soleimani and the Iranians were directly responsible for 600 American deaths in the war in Iraq, which supposedly would justify the general's recent assassination by President Trump. Hoh explains that although...
Conservatives Are Increasingly Wrong about Free Markets
Capitalism creates poverty. Capitalism has stolen our future. Capitalism ravages the planet. Capitalism oppresses us. Capitalism needs to be controlled by government or it will throw most of us into poverty and misery and enrich only the well-placed few. These are not...
Where were all the Constitution’s defenders when the feds raised the smoking age?
On December 20, President Trump signed legislation purporting to impose a single national age of 21 for selling tobacco products. Obviously, the measure reduces the freedom of millions of Americans who are legally adults in almost every other respect—including...
News Roundup 1/10/20
US News Atlanta disbands its police department’s drug unit. The police will try to focus on solving violent crimes. [Link] The House passes a War Powers Resolution aimed at preventing Trump from starting a war with Iran. The resolution is concurrent and cannot be...
Is Trump Deescalating the War with Iran?
On FPF #441, I cover the assassination of Soleimani and the subsequent Iranian missile attack. The Iranian missile attack did not kill anyone, and that appears to have been the Iranian intention. The symbolic response to Trump's act of war, allowed Trump to back away...
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