Given the recent stories about Merrick Garland’s experience at the helm of the Oklahoma City bombing prosecution and his own comments about prosecuting white supremacists should he be made Attorney General, I have some questions about Garland’s handling of the OKC...
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8/15/24 Matt Taibbi on Tulsi Gabbard being Followed and the Government’s Battle to Control Information
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews Matt Taibbi about some articles that he’s run at Racket News. They start with the stories Taibbi wrote about how air marshals followed Tulsi Gabbard as she traveled. They also talk about the so-called disinformation complex, some...
8/14/24 Matthew Hoh on Obama’s Folly in Afghanistan and Recourses for Managing and Dealing with PTSD
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about his experience trying to steer the Obama administration’s Afghanistan policy away from the edge and his experience helping both himself and others confront PTSD. Hoh starts by recounting his Afghanistan...
8/15/24 Connor Freeman on America and Israel’s War On the Palestinians
by Scott Horton | Aug 16, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Connor Freeman was on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about developments in Gaza. He and Scott discuss the slaughtering of civilians that continues unchecked, the threat this all poses to the safety of the American public, the reason a wider war...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part II)
by Bill Buppert | Aug 16, 2024 | Blog
In Part I, I discussed and critiqued an overview of the new efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal. Here, we'll chat (again) about the Sentinel which is the improved replacement for the aging Minuteman III ICBM and it is already in trouble with the schedule sliding...
US: Israeli Bombing Gaza Will Kill More Civilians But Not Defeat Hamas
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 15, 2024 | News
US intelligence officials speaking with The New York Times said that Israel will not be able to defeat Hamas and continuing to bomb Gaza will kill more civilians. Some national security officials expressed surprise at how much Israel has degraded Hamas over the...
The Taiwan Problem You (Probably) Don’t Know
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Taiwan is today lauded for its vibrant democracy, open economy, and progressive society. However, behind this shining exterior is a dark and brutal history that is frequently overlooked; or in the case of Washington and its loyal corporate mouthpieces, purposefully...
News Roundup 8/15/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 15, 2024 | News Roundup
US News White House Suppressed Docs Showing Hunter Sought State Dept Help for Burisma The Institute Russia NATO Countries Think Ukraine Won’t Be Able To Hold Territory in Russia’s Kursk AWC Biden Says US in ‘Constant Contact’ With Ukraine About Kursk Offensive AWC...
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Trump Bombs Iran: Bovard’s First Penalty Flags
If only the Japanese had issued a "time for peace" statement after bombing Pearl Harbor like Trump did tonight. Shakespeare wrote: "Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war." Trump had his 4 minute victory lap statement tonight. Will he still be strutting on Independence...
UTOPYC: A Realistic Libertarian Utopia
What if there were a country with no state, no taxes, no politicians, and no public institutions? That’s the premise of Utopyc, a novel that answers the need—long identified by Rothbard—for a libertarian narrative capable of moving, convincing, and inspiring. The...
Celebrate Juneteenth the Right Way
Today is Juneteenth. I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR They became good communists on that...
The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)
***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...
Be Careful What You Ask for
You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.
Phony Noninterventionists
Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...
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