10/8/19 Dan McKnight on the Need to Bring Our Troops Home from the Middle East

Dan McKnight joins Scott to discuss his very important organization, Bring Our Troops Home, which argues against America's endless wars in the Middle East from a constitutional conservative position. Scott explains how the left has always been pretty good on the war issue, as is the older generation of Vietnam-era veterans who have turned anti-war. What we really need in order to change U.S. foreign policy is for the large base of younger republicans, including veterans of the current wars, to realize that a limited, defensive military policy really is the correct conservative stance....

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10/7/19 Reese Erlich on Turkey, Syria, and Egypt

Scott interviews Reese Erlich about the situation in Turkey, where the government is beginning to carry out a plan to get rid of the country's Kurdish population in a kind of soft genocide that consists mostly in displacing native Kurds with Syrian refugees. Scott and Erlich also discuss the current protests against Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Discussed on the show: "Foreign Correspondent: Turkey Plans an Attack on Syrian Kurds" (Progressive.org) Coping with Crumbling States Warren Commission Reese Erlich is a freelance journalist who has reported from the Middle East for...

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Former CIA Officer Robert Baer: Whistleblower Represents ‘Palace Coup’

Via Matt Taibbi: From CNN: BAER: That's what I find remarkable, is that this whistleblower knew about [the placing of the record of the call in the classified system], this attempt to cover up. This is a couple people. It just isn't one. BALDWIN: And on the couple people point, if the allegation is true, Bob, what does it say that White House officials, lawyers, wanted to cover it up? BAER: You know, my guess, it's a palace coup against Trump. And who knows what else they know at this point. But, you know, this is not an ordinary whistleblower complaint. It is, like I said, well put...

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