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6/29/18 Sharmine Narwani on Al Qaeda Affiliates Fighting With US Rebels in Syria's South

by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Sharmine Narwani, writer and journalist, is interviewed on her article for The American Conservative Magazine, "Are al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside U.S. Rebels in Syria’s South?". The history of the United State's support for rebels in Syria is explored, as...

FPF #197 – Libyan Style

by Kyle Anzalone | May 23, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #197, I discuss John Bolton's plan for North Korea to undergo Libyan style denuclearization. In December 2003 Libya quickly gave up a nuclear weapons program. In 2011, NATO, led by the US, went to war with Libya. The war was based on myths pushed by Hillary...

FPF #178 – Trump Takes the Bait

by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 9, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #178, I discuss recent allegations that Assad used chemical weapons. The al-Qaeda linked White Helmets claims that over 40 people were killed in the attack. In response, Trump took to Twitter to call Assad an animal and blame the situation in Syria on Obama. I...

FPF #174 – The Syrian War Goes On

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 30, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #174, I update the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Civil War recently passed its 7th year but remains exceptionally complex. Assad has liberated Damascus from most al-Qaeda linked factions. Turkey has conquered the Afrin District from the Syrian Kurds and now...

3/28/18 Gareth Porter on the history of Iraq War 2

by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter returns to the show to do a deep dive on the history of the Iraq War. Porter begins by detailing the role of the air force in propagating the neoconservatives' goals and the behind-the-scenes struggle for power that...

3/23/18 Patrick Cockburn on the fighting in Afrin and Eastern Ghouta

by Scott Horton | Mar 23, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, Middle East reporter for the Independent, returns to the show to discuss the fighting in Syria, focusing on the conflicts in Afrin and East Ghouta where much of the killing of civilians has taken place. Cockburn details the tangled maze of allegiance...

Corrected: Gina Haspel Did Not Torture Zubaydah, Apparently

by Scott Horton | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog

Not only did the new CIA Director personally oversee the torture of Abu Zubaydah, she did so in order to lie you and your mom into supporting the aggressive war against Iraq. From David Rose’s report "Tortured Reasoning": Some of what he did say was leaked by the...

2/16/18 Reese Erlich on the latest pandemonium in Syria

by Scott Horton | Feb 16, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Foreign correspondent Reese Erlich returns to the show to discuss his latest article "The U.S. is Permanently Occupying Northern Syria, and That's Trouble." Erlich dials back to the good old days—2014—when the United States assured Americans it would not be involved...

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Short Story – “Actions Have Consequences.”

He sat back into his seat, in his man cave. It had been a long day. He held the whisky. It bit when he sipped. Eyes open ahead as he gulped it down. The glass empty. He poured another. He was still in his uniform. The day had been long. “Are you in there Daddy?” his...

Selling Out a Nation

I discuss the current state of the economy, how Trump is attempting to recover a nation of vitality, and we watch the 1992 presidential debate.

It NDs Today: The Swiss Adopt a Lemon

The Gods help them in this very silly selection by the Swiss armed forces. ND is a negligent discharge where the pistol fires when you haven't asked it to. Most inconvenient. So the Swiss are buying a gun that technically failed the evaluation just to keep the...

The Evergreen State Pays the Green Toll of Stupidity

I cover mostly military topics here at the LI Blog per my charter but on occasion I cover other topics. The Washington State ferry system is in tatters. It continues to get worse barely a week into the new year: Washington State Ferries needs 17 boats to operate at...

The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Patrick Henningsen: Venezuela: America’s Next Disaster?

A president is kidnapped, the government remains, and we’re told it isn’t regime change. We pull back the curtain on what our guest calls “regime changeover,” a strategy that uses spectacle and lawfare to force leverage without admitting occupation. From sanctions...