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Pete welcomed Sheldon Richman back to the show. Sheldon is the author of the book recently put out by the LibertarianInstitute.org entitled "Coming to Palestine."

Sheldon answers Pete's questions which include, was Palestine a land without a people, was there a diaspora after the sacking of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70AD and a few others.

Sheldon Richman is the Executive Editor of The Libertarian Institute. The former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, and former Vice President at the Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families, Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax, and Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State.

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Scott joins Pete to go over the recent hostilities with Iran and what looks like a possible end.

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 Riverside, podcasts the Scott Horton Show from scotthorton.org, and is the Editorial Director of Antiwar.com. He’s conducted more than 4,900 interviews since 2003. He is also the author of Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan (2017).

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On FPF #440, I cover all the breaking news from Iraq, including Iran's missile attack on the al-Asad Airbase in Iraq. The attack was a response to the US assassination of Soleimani. The assassination has provoked moves by several actors. US and allies are moving troops in and out of Iraq. The Iraqi government voted to kick Americans out of Iraq. Trump took to Twitter to make several threats of what would happen if Iran responded by harming American interests. 

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Soleimani Update

Trump said Soleimani was killed because he had killed Americans and planned to kill more. After the killing of Soleimani, Secretary of State Pompeo said the US carried out the attack to prevent an inanimate attack that endangered 100s of US soldiers. Pompeo said the US  is committed to de-escalation. [Link]

Daniel Larison explains the Trump admin’s intelligence that Soleimani presented an imminent threat to Americans. The legal authority for the strike is very thin. [Link]

The Department of Homeland Security says there are no credible threats to the US homeland. [Link]

Iran says Soleimani was in Iraq to give a message to Saudi Arabia. Saudi and Iran have been working through Iraqi back channels to reduce tensions. [Link]

Iran names the Quds Force deputy Esmail Ghaani to replace Soleimani as the head of the Quds force. [Link]

Iran said it will retaliate against the US for the killing of Soleimani. [Link]

Iran says it will no longer abide by the limits set in the Nuclear Deal. The US withdrew from the deal in May of 2018, and at the time, Iran was still complying with the deal. After the US left the deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran, Iran has stepped back from its commitments to the deal. Iran will continue to allow IAEA inspections of its facilities. [Link]

The US urges all citizens to leave Iraq. [Link]

US oil workers in southern Iraq are leaving the country following the US assassination of Soleimani. [Link]

The US will deploy about 3,500 paratroopers to the Middle East. [Link] The US will also deploy a task force of Army Rangers. [Link]

The US deploys six B-52 bombers to Deigo Garcia. The US deployed B-52s to May and those returned to the US a few months after. [Link]

Germany is moving 30 of its 120 soldiers deployed to Iraq to Jordan or Kuwait. [Link]

The US will designate the Iraqi Shia militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq a terror group. [Link]

The US-led coalition fighting the US says its new mission is to protest coalition forces. [Link] The coalition has also paused the training of Iraqi forces. [Link]

Trump threatens to strike 52 Iranian targets if Iran responds to the American assassination of Soleimani. [Link]

Secretary of Defense Esper suggests the Pentagon may not follow Trump’s order to commit war crimes and target Iranian cultural sites. [Link]

Trump ‘informs’ Congress through Twitter that if Iran targets Americans he will strike back, even with disproportionate force. [Link]

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote on a War Powers Resolution to limit Trump’s war-making abilities against Iran. [Link]

Trump gives a report to Congress on the operation and decision to assassinate Soleimani. The entire document is classified. [Link] NATO suspended the training of Iraqi forces. [Link]

Americans respond to the assassination with protests in cities across the country. [Link]

On Saturday, several reports of rockets hitting Iraqi bases and various sites around Baghdad. [Link]

Three Rockets hit Baghdad on Sunday. [Link]

Iraq’s prime minister - along with most other high rankings and influential Shia Iraqis - condemn the assassination of Soleimani. [Link]

Iraq's parliament passed a resolution that calls for working to have the withdra...

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Some Strong Language

Pete welcomes Dane, Jordan and Jacob from the Veterans 4 Voluntaryism podcast. All three are Afghan combat veteran who join Pete to discuss several topics including a potential Virginia "Boogaloo," the church shooting in Texas, the Afghan Papers and what they would say to people who sought to enlist in the military.

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Some Strong Language

Pete invited the host of the Statist Quo Podcast, Matt Freeman, to come on the show to give a detailed history of the "gun-grab" the American government doesn't want to talk about, Wounded Knee.

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Fellow choir boy and crypto addict,@ZaneWithSpoon, tells me his story of becoming the CTO of Dispatch Labs. Zane shares how he got into crypto, buying his first bitcoins, differences between Ethereum and Bitcoin, surviving the 2017 ICO Pump and Dump, and the future of crypto. We also get into Zane's new endeavor, Genity, and the importance in understanding the value of your data...honestly this episode is pretty much Turing Complete .

 

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Patrick Cockburn discusses the recent killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani at an airport in Baghdad. Cockburn is surprised by the boldness of the move, and thinks Iran will respond, though not necessarily in a dramatic or immediate way. More likely, he says, Iran will try to increase its influence in Iraq and force the U.S. out, which should be easier now that the killing of Soleimani—generally unpopular with Iraqis—has actually made him a martyr of American authoritarianism.

Discussed on the show:

"Iraq’s worst fears have come true – they are now at the centre of a proxy war between the US and Iran" (Independent)

Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent and the author of The Age of Jihad and Chaos & Caliphate.

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Scott talks with Brett Murphy about his recent USA Today article exposing a disastrous U.S. military raid in 2008 that killed 60 Afghan children. The U.S. government tried to cover up the incident and paint it as a perfect success, so it was not until now that Murphy and others have been able to expose what really happened. Scott reminds us to imagine how we would feel if a foreign government occupied our country, accidentally killed our children, denied it, and then tried to "win hearts and minds." Clearly, anyone would have just the opposite feelings toward their oppressors, and the example reminds us why wars like the one in Afghanistan are so hopeless.

Discussed on the show:

"Inside the U.S. military's raid against its own security guards that left dozens of Afghan children dead" (USA Today)

"1/2/20 Peter Van Buren on the Americans Dying for the Government’s Lies" (The Libertarian Institute)

Brett Murphy is an investigative reporter for the USA Today Network in Florida. Follow him on Twitter @BrettMmurphy.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Washinton Babylon; Liberty Under Attack Publications; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Happy New Year everyone! Thank you all so much for your support this year. I really couldn't have done it without you guys giving a crap. Today's episode I'm gonna share a new article I wrote that you can read via the link below (but reading's for losers, so who am I kidding?). Really, thank you all so much for an awesome year, and I look forward to making 2020 Buck Wild and weird with all you kooks.

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Mustafa Akyol talks about his latest New York Times op-ed, which describes a backlash among the people of the Muslim world to some of the political extremism that has recently become common in the Middle East. Scott and Akyol rehash the history of radical Islamist movements that have sprung up in response to the actions of the U.S., turning regimes like Libya, Iraq, and Egypt that were stable and secular—if not perfect by American standards—into murderous and chaotic theocracies. A decade or so later, a sort of "backlash to the backlash" is now emerging in the form of Muslim populaces who are sick and tired of heinous actions being taken in the name of their religion. This gives Akyol hope for the future of his country, Turkey, and for the rest of the region.

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"A New Secularism Is Appearing in Islam" (The New York Times)

Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He is the author of The Islamic Jesus and Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty. Follow him on Twitter @AkyolinEnglish.

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