Paramilitaries in Khartoum threw dozens of bodies into the Nile to try to hide the number of casualties inflicted during a dawn attack on pro-democracy protesters in the Sudanese capital earlier this week, doctors and activists have said. Heavily armed units of the...
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Year Zero: Policing the World to Safety
In Episode 44 Tommy addresses a common position in modern America. Should Team America police the world? And if they do what is the result? "I believe in police the world... i do." ~ Dana Perino For decades the US has adhered to this policy of policing the world. In...
Episode 267: Collapse, Civil War, Statelessness and U.S. Intervention in Somalia w/ Scott Horton
69 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited Scott Horton back to the show to do a deep dive into the last 30 years of Somalia's history. Scott Horton is Managing Director of The Libertarian Institute, host of Antiwar Radio for Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles and KUCR 88.3 in...
Patrick Cockburn: America’s persecution of Julian Assange has everything to do with Yemen
Patrick Cockburn: We have had two good examples of the lengths to which a government – in this case that of the US – will go to protect its own tainted version of events. The charging of Julian Assange for leaking government and military secrets and the denial of...
5/31/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the Humanitarian Disaster in Yemen
Nasser Arrabyee is back with an update on the war in Yemen, where the UN estimates a quarter of a million people have died either in combat or because of the deprivation resulting from the war. Arrabyee reminds us that the objectives of this war are totally...
Yemen’s Houthi rebels are not Iran proxies
Samuel Ramani writes in the Washington Post that the Houthi rebels targeting of Saudi oil facilities has more to do with internal Houthi issues than with any desire to retaliate against US sanctions on Iran. Although Houthi drone strikes can be plausibly explained by...
Yemeni Video Journalist Maad al-Zekri Denied US Visa to Attend Pulitzer Ceremony
Maad al-Zekri, Maggie Michael, and Nariman El-Mofty won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the Atlantic Media's 16th Annual Michael Kelly award for their reporting on the war in Yemen. The reporters were honored for their heroic work covering the...
Congress Fiddles While Trump Lurches Toward War on Iran
Congress, and particularly the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, seems determined to see the end of the Trump Administration before the 2020 vote. Although House Speaker Pelosi claims she is not seeking impeachment, she’s accusing the president of...
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