Scott interviews Cato's John Mueller about why it's time to leave Afghanistan. Fundamentally, the Taliban cannot be defeated at any remotely acceptable cost of American lives and U.S. dollars, says Mueller, and at the same time military interventions has only made the...
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8/16/19 Alan Kuperman on America’s Support for Al-Qaeda in Libya
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Alan Kuperman explains the true story of the 2011 civil war in Libya, which the United States famously and disastrously supported. Contrary to the narrative that this uprising was started by regular, educated citizens like doctors and lawyers, Kuperman and his...
8/16/19 Max Blumenthal on Joe Biden’s Catastrophic Record in Latin America
by Scott Horton | Aug 18, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Max Blumenthal explains how the policies of the Obama administration, pushed by Joe Biden in particular, have fueled the migration crisis in Latin America we see today. Notably, America gave material support to the Colombian regime that massacred thousands of innocent...
8/16/19 Jim Bovard on Bill Clinton’s ‘Benevolent’ Murder of Serbian Civilians
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jim Bovard about Bill Clinton's bombing campaign in Serbia twenty years ago, which at the time was widely heralded as a triumph of the "forces of good." It was also, apparently, something that Bill Clinton did as a way to appease Hillary after the...
8/12/19 Nasser Arrabyee on Saudi War Crimes in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Aug 13, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee discusses the latest Saudi war crime against Yemeni civilians, the bombing of a family on the first day of Eid al-Adha. He also gives a summary of the last few months of the horrific war there, replete with complex political nuances that will not be...
8/12/19 Jason Ditz with the Latest on Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 13, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz discusses a recent Taliban suicide attack in Kabul and a report finding that about 40,000 soldiers on the books of the Afghan army don't really exist. These so-called "ghost soldiers" often abandon their posts, but army officials don't report it, since it's...
8/9/19 Pete Quinones on Gun Control, Health Care, and the War on Drugs
by Scott Horton | Aug 12, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Pete Quinones, formerly Mance Rayder, discusses some of his recent articles for the Libertarian Institute, covering gun control, Trump's election in 2016, and Bernie Sanders' proposed health care laws. After the shootings last week in El Paso and Dayton, many...
8/9/19 Eric Margolis on the Dangers of Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 11, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Eric Margolis about the recent legal change that will now allow non-Kashmiris to buy land in Kashmir. Kashmir is majority Muslim, and has been the subject of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan for years. The fear is that the legal change...
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