Here's some footy of the giant star we orbit. 1 second = 1 hour, so it's a total of ten years worth shown in an hour (is that right?). https://youtu.be/l3QQQu7QLoM
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Interview on the NY Times Story on Afghanistan Russian Bounties
I was interviewed on David Gornoski's show about the latest scandal. https://youtu.be/chuUJCCdBLk
6/29/20 Matthew Hoh on the Dubious Russia-Afghanistan Bounty Story
Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about the recent claim that the Russian government has been paying bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers. The headlines have made it sound as though this is a confirmed and well-sourced story, when in reality, Hoh explains, it’s all coming from anonymous American intelligence sources without so much as an attempt at independent verification of, say, specific soldiers that this is supposed to have happened to. Moreover, says Hoh, Russia has very little to gain from such a policy, and a lot to lose. The people who would benefit from increased tensions...
WSJ: NSA Says Russian Bounties Story is False
Journal: "The National Security Agency strongly dissented from other intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia paid bounties for the killing of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, according to people familiar with the matter. "The disclosure of the dissent by the NSA, which specializes in electronic eavesdropping, comes as the White House has played down the revelations, saying that the information wasn’t verified and that intelligence officials didn’t agree on it. "Because of that, President Trump was never personally briefed on the threat, the White House said, although a key lawmaker said...
Donald Trump Sticks Up For Woodrow Wilson
Of all the shameful things. Wilson's brutal racism is only one facet of his horrible legacy, which also includes the creation of the Federal Reserve and lying America into World War I, an act which was directly responsible for the rise of Nazism, Communism and the expansion of the British Empire by 1,000,000 square miles in the Middle East, and therefore World War II, the Cold War, the American world empire, the war on terrorism and all the rest. Trump of course knows none of this. He's just defensive of presidents accused of racism, even though Wilson was not only avowedly prejudiced, he...
The Final Humiliation of H.R. McMaster
After committing war crimes in Iraq, failing _completely_ at fighting corruption in Afghanistan, and failing to convince Trump to attack North Korea, this pathetic perfumed prince of a political general gets taken out to the woodshed by Col. Andrew Bacevich, who ridicules the man nearly to death over his attacks against foreign policy "restrainers." "Just as President Trump is adamant in refusing to fess up to mistakes in responding to Covid-19 — 'We’ve made every decision correctly' — so too McMaster avoids reckoning with what actually happened when the never-retrench crowd was calling the...
6/26/20 Hans Kristensen: the Bleak Outlook for Nuclear Arms Control
Scott talks to Hans Kristensen about the state of the world’s nuclear weapons arsenals. Immediately after the Cold War, says Kristensen, the U.S. and Russia drastically reduced their nuclear stockpiles, making the world significantly safer. Since then, however, this trend toward disarmament has begun to slow and even to reverse. At the same time, more countries have developed their own nuclear weapons programs. Scott thinks this has more to do with the financial incentives of the military-industrial complex than it does with the possibility for real global hostilities—but that doesn’t make...
6/26/20 Jim Bovard on American Atrocities in Kosovo and Korea
Jim Bovard exposes the false claim that Bill Clinton presided over a peaceful administration, pointing out the horrible atrocities of the “humanitarian” intervention in Kosovo. Clinton launched this intervention, says Bovard, as a distraction from his personal scandals, under the dubious guise of saving the ethnic minority Albanians from genocide at the hands of the Serbians. Of course, as with many of America’s wars, this one turned out to be based on lies; ultimately hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians were killed because of U.S. intervention. Scott and Bovard also discuss the U.S....
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