4/30/21 Andy Worthington on the Shameful Human Cost of Joe Biden’s Guantanamo Inertia

Scott interviews Andy Worthington about Guantanamo Bay, America's secret black site prison, where 40 men are still being held, some of them without ever having been charged with a crime. President Obama famously campaigned on closing Guantanamo, but ultimately was unable (or unwilling) to do so. President Trump, too, allowed the atrocious human rights abuses to continue throughout his administration. Worthington is optimistic about the possibility of change, but if the American people continue to turn a blind eye to this issue, things may simply carry on indefinitely. Discussed on the show:...

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4/26/21 Dan Gifford: What Really Happened at Waco and How the Establishment Covered It Up

Scott talks to Dan Gifford, producer of the famous film, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, about the tragedy of the Waco siege, all the government and media lies to cover it up and what really happened behind the scenes. Gifford shares his decades of experience looking into this topic, including all the times when the government tried to shut him up. Discussed on the show: "What Really Happened At Waco And The Establishment Collusion to Cover It Up" (Dan Gifford) "Will ABC really tell us what happened at Waco?" (Patch) "Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997)" (IMDb) "Waco: A New Revelation...

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4/23/21 Gareth Porter on Biden’s Promised Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Gareth Porter discusses the recent announcement that the Biden administration will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. This is obviously a violation of the May 1 withdrawal agreement made under the Trump administration, but Porter is optimistic that Biden and his team are serious about getting out by this fall. Scott and Porter also talk about the latest negotiations in Vienna regarding American sanctions and the Iran nuclear deal. Porter worries that the U.S. is taking too hard a line, thinking they can get away with continued sanctions, and that the...

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More Interviews of Me

Thanks to Everyone's Orphan for the list. Enough Already & Uighurs - Why Libertarian Osama Bin Laden's Strategy to Take Down the US - Bob Murphy Conflicts of Interest #100​ - Scott Horton Dismantles the War Party Narrative Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Terrorism - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

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4/21/21 Edward Hasbrouck on Abolishing the Draft Once and for All

Scott interviews Edward Hasbrouck about the effort to finally abolish America's "selective service" requirement, the modern-day remains of what was once the draft. Hasbrouck explains how, after Nixon abolished the draft in the 1960s, Jimmy Carter reinstituted the system we have today, partially to combat national anxiety over the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis. Hasbrouck says that what the draft really is is an assurance to America's war planners that there will always be an unlimited supply of infantry troops to fight any war the government decides to wage. Taking this power away...

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Events!

Events!

I'm doing two events this Saturday: WRMEA and IRmep's End Support for Apartheid Israel Conference at 1:00 PM Eastern and a speech to the Washington LP later that afternoon in Seattle with Peter R. Quinones, Matt Kibbe, Angela McArdle and others.

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4/16/21 Ray McGovern: Biden and Blinken Blink on Ukraine

Scott interviews Ray McGovern about America's perilous foreign policy stance in Eastern Europe. Over the last few years, the U.S. has increasingly thrown its support behind Ukraine—and specifically the pro-Western, anti-Russian forces in that country. This policy has shown itself to be extremely dangerous, given Russia's clear willingness to go to war to defend its interests in Crimea and on its own border. Luckily, explains McGovern, the Biden administration seems to have backed down for the time being from a commitment to a full defense of Ukraine against Russia. Discussed on the show:...

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4/16/21 William Arkin: Why America Can’t End its ‘Forever Wars’

William Arkin discusses the changing nature of America's military, specifically the way that operations have shifted away from traditional "boots on the ground" and toward drone strikes, special forces, civilian contractors and intelligence analysts. In fact, for every soldier on the ground in the Middle East today, Arkin estimates that there are at least one hundred other people around the world to support that soldier. This has led to a Faustian bargain for the American people: the number of American troops getting killed and injured overseas is relatively low—on the other hand, this...

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