They are well funded, they have institutional power, they have found a new home in the democrat party and they never back down. You would think that the Afghanistan debacle is another blow to neoconservatives: That the school of foreign policy experts inside the...
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8/17/21 Eric Margolis: This is Not the Worst Case Scenario in Afghanistan
Eric Margolis talks with Scott about the situation in Afghanistan as American forces continue to withdraw. Of course, the last few days have seen nonstop headlines proclaiming an utter disaster in the country, many of them excoriating President Biden for having...
News Roundup 8/20/21
US News The Biden administration will eliminate $5.8 billion in student loan debt for over 320,000 disabled people. [Link] Cuba The US sanctioned three Cuba officials using the Global Magnitsky Act. [Link] Afghanistan The State Department said it was deploying more...
COI #151: Hawks’ Boast of Obsessive Anti-China Paranoia as Basis for Policy
On COI #151, Kyle Anzalone explains how Biden’s China policy is being formed by officials who boast about being Sino-paranoid. Biden’s new Air Force Secretary said he was “obsessed” with China and was hoping to “scare” the CCP. The delusions of key Biden officials is...
TGIF: Thinking about Energy
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its sixth "assessment report" earlier this month. As usual it generated its share of alarmist headlines. The report is several thousand pages long, and I'm certainly not qualified to digest, much less...
8/16/21 Andrew Cockburn on the Legacy of Zalmay Khalilzad
Scott talks to Andrew Cockburn about his 2014 article on Afghan-born neoconservative Zalmay Khalilzad. Cockburn explains how it was Khalilzad who selected new leaders for Afghanistan and Iraq after the old regimes had fallen to U.S. forces. Scott and Cockburn also...
8/17/21 Matthew Hoh on the Systemic Failures Behind America’s Loss in Afghanistan
Scott interviews Matthew Hoh, the Marine veteran who blew the whistle about the doomed Afghan Surge. Hoh lays out what led him to resign in protest and go to the press with the truth about how hopeless the military’s counterinsurgency mission really was. Hoh then...
The Secret to Refuting Propaganda: Understanding Economics. Abigail R. Hall, Ph.D. & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/rorurOdpCe4 ... political economy is not to be considered, as had Smith and the classicals, a study of wealth; it is instead a study of human exchanges. Murray N. Rothbard Classical Economics, p. 120 Abigail R. Hall, Ph.D. is an associate professor of...
Recent Interviews of Me
Scott Horton on withdrawal from the Afghan war - Kennedy Scott Horton on the End of the War in Afghanistan - Pete Quinones Scott Horton on the End of a Fool's Errand - Kyle Anzalone Scott Horton on What Just Happened in Afghanistan - Tom Woods Scott Horton: U.S....
News Roundup 8/19/21
US News Biden says nursing homes that have Medicare and Medicaid residents have to mandate their staff are vaccinated. [Link] The FDA approved a third booster shot of the 2-shot covid vaccinations for most adults. [Link] The federal government will reimburse states...
