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5/24/17 Ted Galen Carpenter from the Cato Institute discusses Russia, the West, and the Bosnian conflict

by Scott Horton | May 24, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Ted Galen Carpenter from the Cato Institute is interviewed on the Bosnian conflict and the deterioration of Western relations with Russia. United States government interference with a potential peace deal that was being formulated to end the conflict is also...

Cato VP: Ron Paul Represented a “Hideous Corruption of Libertarian Ideas”

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. | Apr 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Today’s Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people receive every weekday. Be one of them. “Ron Paul’s xenophobia was a hideous corruption of libertarian ideas.” What kind of person says something so detached from reality? Why, Brink Lindsey, Vice President of...

4/19/17 Gene Healy on the weak legal justification for Trump’s ‘drive-by Tomahawking’ in Syria

by Scott Horton | Apr 19, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute, discusses the media's strained constitutional justification for Trump's "limited military activity" in Syria; and why the 1973 War Powers Resolution doesn't give the president a free pass to initiate offensive...

4/17/17 Ted Galen Carpenter on Trump’s schoolyard strategy for dealing with North Korea

by Scott Horton | Apr 17, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, discusses Trump's strategy of pressuring Kim Jong-un by leveraging China's influence; how the Trump administration's middle-school mentality on North Korea makes for a...

3/6/17 Doug Bandow gives advice to Trump on North Korea and Russia policy

by Scott Horton | Mar 6, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses what a responsible North Korea policy would look like after successive US administrations have failed to gain anything from isolating the regime and eschewing diplomacy; and why we should look to Europe for...

2/1/17 Alex Nowrasteh on whether Trump’s temporary ban of immigrants from certain countries really helps US national security

by Scott Horton | Feb 1, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, discusses his guide to Trump's executive order limiting migration for people from a list of countries supposedly at risk of exporting terrorists to the US;...

State Governments as Victims

by Chris Edwards | Jan 31, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

This was a news headline in the Wall Street Journal yesterday: “States’ Revenue Shortfalls Exacerbate Budget Crunch.” The article said that, “Faced with weak revenue, sluggish growth and possible federal funding cuts, many governors and state lawmakers face a tough...

1/23/17 Doug Bandow on ending the decades-long, counterproductive US sanctions on Sudan

by Scott Horton | Jan 23, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses why US sanctions against Sudan, put in place not long after President Omar Hassan al-Bashir took power in a 1989 coup, have failed to produce any positive results, serving only to economically cripple the...

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Carrier Follies Continue Apace

The military press seems to be coming around to the conclusion that has been floated here at the Institute for quite some time. The aircraft carrier has seen its time and it is time to retire the tired and anachronistic technology. Poor concepts, design and planning;...

Child Effigies

There was a time when Rebecca Black and her song, ‘Friday’ was a meme. It was popular for millions of people to tease, torment, stalk and threaten the life of a thirteen year old girl because of a music video, the digital mob was hungry for another child effigy to...

The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil

The Trump administration's abduction and threatened deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old green-card holder and permanent legal resident of the United States, is horrifying not just for him and his pregnant wife, a U.S. citizen, but as a sign of things to come....

Roast in Hell Karl Marx

On this day when Karl Marx became a good communist.

Parenting w/Kyle Matovcik

Kyle joined me to discuss what to expect when becoming a parent. Alp

Chinese Chess Moves: A Tectonic Shift in Exquisite Platforms

If the Saab 37 Viggen and the F16 had a love child, it is the Chinese J-10C. The realignment begins, you are witnessing a tectonic shift away from US influence in all the conflict hot-spots on Earth. Meanwhile, the J-10C is equipped to fight against modern threats in...

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The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...