3/26/21 Daniel Davis: US War With China Over Taiwan Would Be Foolish and Costly

by | Mar 29, 2021 |

Daniel Davis talks to Scott about the possibility of war with China. Davis fears that despite what would seem to be common sense arguments against ever fighting such a war, that's the direction that the American military establishment is heading in. The war planners in Washington seem to think that even though the U.S. and China both have large nuclear arsenals, we could fight a conventional war without either side resorting to nukes. This is the height of foolishness, says Davis, but even if we did somehow avoid nuclear war, China could probably defeat the United States easily using only...

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3/26/21 Jack Matlock on America’s Unnecessarily Hostile Relationship With Russia

by | Mar 29, 2021 |

Jack Matlock, America's second-to-last ambassador to the Soviet Union, talks to Scott about relations with Russia today. He stresses that the real ideological differences that once divided America and the USSR don't stand in the way anymore, and we need not continue to have a hostile relationship with a country that for the most part means us well. In fact, given that Russia, like America, has a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons, friendly cooperation between the two countries is far more important than any small issues like claims of election interference and personal insults between...

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3/26/21 Matthew Hoh on Biden’s Afghanistan Equivocations

by | Mar 29, 2021 |

Matthew Hoh comes back on the show to talk about Afghanistan. President Biden said in a recent press conference that due to logistical difficulties, America is unlikely to meet the May 1 withdrawal deadline laid out in the Doha agreement signed under President Trump. Hoh points out that there shouldn't really be logistical difficulties in getting about 3,000 American troops out of Afghanistan in a month (not to mention the many months both presidents have had already)—really, this is political cover to avoid pulling America out once and for all. No president has been willing to do so so far,...

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3/26/21 Joe Dyke on the Secret Talks that Nearly Saved Gaddafi

by | Mar 28, 2021 |

Scott interviews Joe Dyke about his coverage of the little-known secret talks between Norwegian diplomats and Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, which sought a peaceful end to the war there. Although Norway was a part of the group of countries that decided to begin bombing Libya, the talks remained mostly a secret, and the Norwegian negotiators even had to be evacuated right before the bombing started. According to Dyke's reporting, Gaddafi was open to a deal that would involve his stepping down peacefully in exchange for legal immunity. The Norwegian government, he says, tried to get Britain and...

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3/26/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s Uncompromising Parliamentary Extremists

by | Mar 28, 2021 |

Kalmen Barkin fills Scott in on the political situation in Israel, a country that in his words is in complete political deadlock. Leading right wing figures like Prime Minister Netanyahu have had trouble forming clear ruling coalitions recently, in part because of their unwillingness to work at all with Palestinians. Barkin says that Netanyahu is also trying to find a way out of his power sharing agreement with Benny Gantz, which he agreed to in order to form a coalition in the last election. Because of all this deadlock, Israel is facing yet another round of elections. This episode of the...

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3/26/21 Jim Bovard on the Government Cover-Up of the Waco Massacre

by | Mar 26, 2021 |

Scott talks to Jim Bovard about the Waco massacre, and especially the second investigation into the government's actions, led by Senator John Danforth in 1999. After new evidence emerged that contradicted the official government story, another investigation was conducted, but Bovard says that its mission all along was really just to whitewash the government's malfeasance. Danforth was a moderate Republican and a darling of the establishment, who had his eyes on the vice presidency in the Bush administration. He did his cover-up job effectively, as Bovard outlines in a new piece; the horrific...

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More Interviews of Me

by | Mar 26, 2021 |

GodArchy Podcast - Michael Maharrey The History of Al-Qaeda - Keith Knight Youse Guys and that Podcast Liberty Lockdown - Clint Muhe And here's the speech I gave last week in New Jersey. (I screwed up a few times in this one, but still.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06tm16BJuE

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