Scott interviews Ron Enzweiler about President Trump trying to keep troops in Syria in order to seize their oil fields for American use. Enzweiler says that apart from this being illegal under international law, Syria's oil fields amount to about 0.2% of the global supply, and the cost of keeping U.S. troops and infrastructure there is orders of magnitude greater than the potential revenues. Enzweiler says Trump's statements are really about promoting Israel's interests—since a military presence in Syria is seen as a defense for Israel against Iran—and in so doing, win the political support...
11/7/19 Francis Boyle: In Defense of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
Scott interviews Francis Boyle about his attempts to help Liz McAlister and the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 in their legal battle for what he views as justified civil resistance. McAlister helped break into the Kings Bay nuclear base in order to peacefully and symbolically protest America's illegal possession of warheads that could end all life on the planet. Boyle was part of a team of advisers and expert witnesses with experience getting acquittals in previous cases like this, but the night before the trial they were blocked from testifying, essentially guaranteeing McAlister and the other...
11/7/19 Matthew Hoh on the Unwinnable War in Afghanistan
Matthew Hoh discusses the extraordinary difficulties in resolving the complex political and ethnic tensions in Afghanistan, something that the U.S. military has been trying to do for going on 20 years. Hoh says that during his time there he saw lots of practices by the Kabul government that clearly weren't any better than tribal or Taliban rule, like bribery, extrajudicial killings, and women treated as second-class citizens. It's no wonder that the Afghan people, particularly Pashtuns, are less than thrilled with the American-backed central government. Hoh also shares some of the...
11/7/19 Tara Copp on the Rising Cancer Rates Among Veterans
Scott talks to Tara Copp about her research on cancer rates among military veterans, particularly air force pilots, whose powerful radar systems may be a contributing factor to multiple types of cancers. Copp reminds us that causality is very difficult to establish in complex studies like this, but wants to lay out the astounding numbers of servicemen and women who are contracting and dying from cancer at young ages, many of whom have been exposed to probable carcinogens like depleted uranium and open burn pits. Awareness of these stories is valuable because it may cause the military to...
11/7/19 Ali M. Latifi on Life in the Most Drone-Bombed Country in the World
Ali Latifi talks about his reporting on the drone war in Afghanistan, the most drone-bombed country in the world. He tells us one of the most troubling facts about America's drone campaigns: that almost everyone who is killed in a drone strike gets labeled an "enemy combatant" by default, and the only way to change that label is by an American investigation after the fact, which rarely happens. This would even include journalists like Latifi, who holds a U.S. passport, when he puts himself at personal risk during his reporting. Sadly, the mainstream U.S. media has pretty much stopped...
My Speech at the Mises Event
On November 9, I participated in a Mises Institute event in Lake Jackson, Texas with Jeff Deist, Dan McAdams, Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul. (Ain't that something?) Jeff asked me to speak on "Propaganda and the 2020 Foreign Policy Debate." I was first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgoEFSrRnds&feature=youtu.be
Lindholm Taking ‘Bring Our Troops Home’ Push to D.C.
Check out this great article about BringOurTroopsHome.us and the great event they're holding next week in D.C.. I beg any and all Iraq and Afghan war vets in the Institute audience who can possibly attend to do so. The opportunity we have to truly change the narrative in the United States to one in which it is understood that the Right, led by the veterans, has given up on their support for the wars. Without the rank and file right, no one in America supports the wars other than those who have a vested interest in perpetuating them.
Most veterans believe the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t worth fighting
Read it and weep.









