Five years ago the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia invaded neighboring Yemen. The conflict was supposed to be quick and simple, over in a few weeks. Now the once-haughty Saudi royals have offered a ceasefire, after their opponents, Houthi irregulars, captured the province of...
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Good Old World Government
by Scott Horton | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog
They love you so much. You can tell by the light blue flag of peace and friendship. Plus all the wonderful rape-babies. U.N. Peacekeepers in Haiti Said to Have Fathered Hundreds of Children “Girls as young as 11 were sexually abused and impregnated” by peacekeepers,...
FPF #214 – Saudi Lies to Congress
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 2, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #214, I breakdown Saudi's misleading explanation for their bombing of a Doctors Without Borders cholera treatment facility in Yemen. Saudi Arabia attempted to use an email from a low-level DWB official to claim DWB was at fault for the bombing. However, the...
Foreign Policy Focus #102 – The Destruction of Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 6, 2017 | Conflicts of Interest
On Foreign Policy Focus #102, I discuss the Yemeni Civil War. I review the history of the war and the destruction of Yemen. Americans remain apathetic about Yemen as it is destroyed with American weapons. Saudi Arabia was blacklisted for a second year for killing...
8/28/17 MSF’s Clair Manera on the cholera epidemic in Yemen
by Damon Hatheway | Aug 29, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Claire Manera from Médecins Sans Frontières returns to the show to discuss the cholera epidemic in Yemen, which has somehow gotten much worse. When Manera was on the show less than two months ago there were an estimated 30,000 cholera cases; today there are more than...
8/28/17 MSF's Clair Manera on the cholera epidemic in Yemen
by Damon Hatheway | Aug 29, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Claire Manera from Médecins Sans Frontières returns to the show to discuss the cholera epidemic in Yemen, which has somehow gotten much worse. When Manera was on the show less than two months ago there were an estimated 30,000 cholera cases; today there are more than...
7/11/17 Nasser Arrabyee on the outbreak of cholera in Yemen as a result of the U.S. war
by Damon Hatheway | Jul 12, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee returns to the show to share his reporting on the war in Yemen. The war dates back to March 2015 when Saudi Arabia and its U.S.-led coalition began raining death on Yemen in an attempt to reinstall the government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who Hillary...
5/31/17 Clair Manera coordinator of Médecins Sans Frontières project Yemen, is interviewed on the Cholera outbreak
by Scott Horton | May 31, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Claire Manera, coordinator of Médecins Sans Frontières’s project in Yemen, is interviewed on the Cholera outbreak in Yemen. Yemen has been in a state of conflict since 2015. That conflict is causing a humanitarian crisis, especially since the intervention by Saudi...
U.S.A. Gives Yemenis Cholera, 300,000 Infected in Next Six Months
by UPI | May 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
May 21 (UPI) -- A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 315 people since April 27 and is spreading with "unprecedented" speed, the United Nations' World Health Organization said Sunday. More than 29,300 suspected cases have been reported in 19 of the country's...
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The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
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