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Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. There is a saying often repeated in circles critical of the foreign policy establishment: “Whoever gets elected, you always get John McCain”. You’re especially likely to hear it when a president turns into a war hawk after explicitly campaigning against regime change, military adventure, and even entangling alliances. And yet, thanks to a well-networked group of bipartisan operatives, the clear desires of the majority of the populace for a more restrained foreign policy are blatantly disregarded after every election cycle. George W. Bush campaigned against nation-building and then launched regime-change wars. Barack Obama…
Download Audio. Scott interviews Dan Vergano of Scientific American about an article he wrote exposing how scientifically absurd the claim that Iran was close to even having the ability to fully weaponize the enriched Uranium they possessed was when Washington and Tel Aviv launched this war. Discussed on the show: Dan Vergano is senior editor, Washington, D.C., at Scientific American. He has previously written for Grid News, BuzzFeed News, National Geographic and USA Today. He is chair of the New Horizons committee for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and a journalism award judge for both the…
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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the Legislature to hold a special session to redraw the state’s congressional districts. But this move would be illegal, some state Democrats say. “They are willing to do an illegal unconstitutional act by doing mid-decade redistricting,” Rep. Ashley Gantt, D-Miami, said during an April 8 conference call reported by the Florida Phoenix. “That is literally nullifying a section of the constitution that is unambiguous.” “This is illegal,” Orlando Democratic Rep. RaShon Young said. “It is against the constitution to redraw maps in favor of a party.” Is it? Mid-decade redistricting wouldn’t be illegal, but…
As he was running for another term in the White House in 2024, President Donald Trump made it clear that he was not a fan of the government’s electronic spying powers contained within the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). “KILL FISA,” he wrote in an all-caps message on Truth Social. “IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS.” It’s been two years and five days since Trump wrote that, but it might as well have been another lifetime. On Wednesday, Trump again took to Truth Social as Congress was debating a possible extension to Section 702 of FISA, which…
Iran war: A Grand Imperial Fantasy? | Vanessa Beeley, The Last American Vagabond & Myriam Charabaty by vanessa beeleyRead on Substack We all sit down with BettBeat Media to add invaluable context to the genocidal project in West Asia and Persia, led by Washington and the Zionist cult, with British puppeteers in the shadows. We discuss the portrayal of the wars for survival in this region from Western outlets, the lack of cultural perspective and civilisational understanding with some of the conclusions being reached. This was an open minded debate from people who are on the same page but who disagree on…
The chief judge of the D.C. district court just won back-to-back writs of mandamus, a rare feat. No green jacket but rather another black mark for Judge James Boasberg. Source link
Sen. Mike Lee (R–Utah) wrote in a social media post Wednesday that an employee at a federal prison hung up on him when he called to check on the health of an incarcerated man. Lee’s experience is a particularly pointed example of an issue that families and criminal justice advocacy groups have complained about for years: It’s next to impossible to get information about inmates’ health from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), and the agency frequently fails to notify families when their incarcerated loved ones are sick or even dying. This cruelty led lawmakers in Congress to introduce legislation…
Download Audio. Jason Jones of the Vulnerable People Project returns to the show to give Scott an update on how his organization is working to rescue and rehabilitate the people impacted directly by the escalating violence the Israeli government and Israeli settlers are unleashing across the Middle East. Discussed on the show: “Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say” (Scientific American) Jason Jones is a film producer, author, activist, popular podcast host, and dedicated human rights worker. And he is the founder and president of The Vulnerable People Project. Subscribe to his Substack. Audio cleaned up…