Scott Horton Articles
Iraq War II, 20 Years Later
by Scott Horton | Mar 17, 2023
Well it seems like only yesterday, though it was half a lifetime ago. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their men and women, especially the neoconservatives, knowingly and deliberately lied this country into starting an aggressive war against Iraq—a war they pretended...
Provoked: How America Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2022
The following is adapted from a speech Scott gave to the Libertarian Party of Utah on February 26, 2022. Just to get this out of the way first real quick: Whenever someone dares to differ with the common government and TV narrative about Russia and their role in the...
How America Destroyed the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Jun 10, 2021
The following is the Introduction to the Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton’s new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. The Middle East, North Africa and South-Central Asia are in chaos. Populations have been riven by sectarian...
From the Director: Re: Fund Drive, Progress Report
by Scott Horton | Mar 5, 2021
To: Institute supporters, readers and listeners From: the Director: Here's a bit of an Institute progress report. We're in the middle of our Fund drive, which is going great. We've already raised more than $40,000 out of the $50,000 we're pushing for, and a generous...
Still Think the War on Terror Works?
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2021
On Thursday, February 25, the Joe Biden administration bombed Iraqi Shi’ite militias in Syria, killing between 1–22 depending on who’s doing the reporting. Why did Biden order this strike? On February 15, there was a rocket attack in Erbil, the capital city of...
Help Support the Libertarian Institute!
by Scott Horton | Feb 16, 2021
This fund drive for the Institute is long overdue. You-all were so generous in the big book fund drive of Summer, 2019, that I couldn't bear to come back to you until the thing was finally done. And there was a severe delay caused by my over-doing it and having to...
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2021
I wrote another book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism .Advance Praise for Enough Already “If you only read one book this year on America’s unending ‘War on Terror,’ it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United...
Matt Taibbi on the Origins of the Russiagate Hoax
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2020
A New Whistleblower Exposes the 'Cambridge Four' This interview was recorded August 13, 2020. The computer garbled the audio terribly, but at least the auto-transcriber was able to make sense of it. The following is edited for clarity and minor mess-ups. Scott Horton:...
The Breonna Taylor Tapes
by Scott Horton | Jul 9, 2020
If this one hadn't gone viral, the "law" would have buried innocent slain victim Breonna Taylor's heroic boyfriend Kenneth Walker under the prison for attempting to murder a cop. Now the tapes of his interrogation have been released. As NBC News explains: Walker was...
Coming Apart at the Seams
by Scott Horton | Jun 1, 2020
It doesn’t have to be this way America is burning. Quite literally. The most destructive riots in America in a very long time have hit more than two dozen cities, as opportunistic thieves and arsonists hijack massive peaceful protests and acts of peaceful civil...
America, We Have To End the Wars Now
by Scott Horton | Apr 2, 2020
The Coronavirus Crisis Makes It Clear Can anyone think what our society might have spent six and a half trillion dollars on instead of 20 years of war in the Middle East for nothing? How about the trillion dollars per year we keep spending on the military on top of...
The New Cold War With Russia Is All America’s Fault
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2020
The following is the text of a speech Scott gave to the King County, Washington Libertarian Party, February 29, 2020. According to Rep. Jason Crow, Russian President “Vladimir Putin wakes up every morning and goes to bed every night trying to figure out how to...
Iraq War IV?
by Scott Horton | Jan 6, 2020
The U.S.A. has been bombing Iraq for 29 years. And it looks like it’s not over yet: Iraq War I: January—February 1991 (aka The Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait) Iraq War I 1/2: February 1991—March 2003 (The rest of Bush I, Bill Clinton years,...
The IRS or The Libertarian Institute?
by Scott Horton | Jan 1, 2020
Friends, We should be so lucky to somehow know that the government has only wasted all the money they've stolen from us over the years, rather than doing something horrible to someone with it. America's completely insane and criminal income taxation system has one...
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
by Scott Horton | Dec 30, 2019
This is all wrong. The entire war on terrorism, and every bit of the suffering, spending and lost liberty that has come with it, has been an unnecessary evil. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attack which got this new era of war started, the enemy in Afghanistan...
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4/4/25 Jeff Deist on the Lessons Libertarians Need to Learn from Trump’s Success
by Scott Horton | Apr 6, 2025
 Download Episode. Scott is joined by Jeff Deist to talk about the political situation we find ourselves in and how it should impact the strategies used to push for more liberty at home and fewer interventions abroad. They discuss Trump’s foreign policy, tariffs, the...
4/4/25 Matt Taibbi on Government Censorship, Russiagate and Why he’s Suing a Congresswoman
by Scott Horton | Apr 5, 2025
 Download Episode. Matt Taibbi returns to the show to discuss his recent testimony in front of Congress. They start by quickly going over the false claim one Democratic Congresswoman leveled at Taibbi before he testified and why he’s now suing her for $10 million....
3/20/25 Gary Vogler on the Haifa Pipeline and How Oil Drives Middle Eastern Geopolitics
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2025
 Download Episode. Scott interviews Gary Vogler about the book he published last year with the Libertarian Institute: Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War. Vogler explains his background managing oil in Iraq on behalf of the Pentagon. They then dive into Vogler’s...
3/24/25 Jesse Trentadue and Richard Booth on the OKC Bombing Cover-Up
by Scott Horton | Mar 27, 2025
 Download Episode. Jesse Trentadue returns to the show after a long hiatus for a deep dive on the Oklahoma City bombing with Scott and Richard Booth. The three explore what we know about what happened, how it differs from the official narrative and what most likely...
3/20/25 Ken Klippenstein on How the US Would Wage War on Iran
by Scott Horton | Mar 23, 2025
 Download Episode. Ken Klippenstein joins Scott to discuss some articles he recently wrote about the plan the American government has for fighting a war with Iran. They start with a discussion of Trump’s strikes on the Houthis of Yemen and then get into all...
3/14/25 Muhammad Sahimi on how Trump’s Return and Israel’s War are Affecting Iran
by Scott Horton | Mar 23, 2025
Download Episode. Scott brings Muhammad Sahimi back on the show to talk about recent developments in Iran. They discuss the Trump administration’s relationship with the Iranian regime, the political dynamic within Iran and much more. Discussed on the show: “'Max...
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