10/21/19 Charles Glass on Syria, Turkey, Iran, and the Kurds

Scott interviews Charles Glass about America's long involvement in Syria, starting with the Obama administration's support for the insurgent side in the country's civil war in 2011. This move, made partly with the intent to limit the influence of Iran and Russia in the Middle East, has actually ended up strengthening them, as their positions have been vindicated by the failure to overthrow the Assad regime. Glass outlines the many times the U.S. has used the Kurds for their own devices and then betrayed them when it became convenient. Discussed on the show: "Tell Me How This Ends" (Harper's...

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Symposium With Ron Paul

Hey yall on Saturday, November 9, in Lake Jackson, Texas (south of Houston), I'll be doing an event with Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, Jeff Deist and Dan McAdams. I think I'm going on first, so get there early!

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10/18/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Winding Down of the War in Syria

Scott talks to Patrick Cockburn about the situation with the Kurds in Syria. Scott calls Syria a win-win-win-win: The Kurds have negotiated a deal with Assad that will give them some autonomy and protection from Turkey, Turkey gets a roughly 30-mile border buffer with Syria, the American people get a partial withdrawal from an unnecessary theater of war, and the Russians see their support for Assad more or less affirmed. The only real losers are those who want to see a perpetual American presence in the region and an ouster of Assad—though Cockburn is quick to remind us about the many tragic...

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10/18/19 Peter Van Buren on the Impeachment Derangement in Washington

Scott interviews Peter Van Buren about his recent article in The American Conservative, "Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus." Van Buren argues that whatever President Trump's real crimes might be—most notably continuing to help the Saudis prosecute a war of genocide in Yemen—nothing that the Democrats have tried to nail him with is actually convincing at all. Of course, if Trump's political opponents were serious about holding him accountable to the law, they would also be forced to indict Obama (and just about every other modern president) for the same war crimes and...

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10/18/19 Doug Bandow on Avoiding Another Cold War

Doug Bandow comes back on the show to explain the importance of America taking a backseat with Ukraine, particularly with respect to its dispute with Russia over Crimea. Bandow reminds us that Crimea has historically always been a part of Russia, and that it was seized back from Ukraine with relatively little violence and general support of the population. Bandow sees it as oddly selective to vehemently oppose Russia's authoritarianism when the U.S. seems perfectly willing to support other oppressive governments, like Saudi Arabia, and thinks it's extremely dangerous to stoke up essentially...

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