Scott talks to Jerrod Laber about the status of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan following the Washington Post's release of their "Afghanistan Papers" last week. Laber thinks that if and when American troops leave, things are sure to get worse in the short term. The...
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What the Afghanistan Papers Really Reveal
by Kym Robinson | Dec 12, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The recent revelations in the “Afghanistan Papers” is nothing unknown for those who cared to take notice. It is a revelation in the sense that it took the mainstream media so long to report on the real war in Afghanistan. It was a revelation homogenised and packaged...
Proxy or Not? US Can’t Make Up Its Mind on Yemen’s Houthis
by Will Porter | Dec 12, 2019 | Blog
In announcing its latest round of sanctions on Iran, Washington once again declared Yemen’s Houthi movement a “proxy” of the Islamic Republic, but recent statements from US officials – including Trump’s top Iran envoy – finally put the lie to that worn out talking...
All Roads Lead to the Intelligence Community guest Joanne Leon
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 11, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On this Foreign Policy Focus and Around the Empire swap cast, Kyle and Joanne discuss the Democrats' efforts to impeach Trump over Russiagate. Statements by Nancy Pelosi and witnesses in the impeachment hearings show the blob's real aim to prevent Trump from adopting...
12/9/19 Eli Clifton on the Billionaire ‘Megadonors’ Controlling the GOP
by Scott Horton | Dec 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Eli Clifton about the billionaire "megadonors" who control the Republican party. Although Trump started his campaign touting his status as an independent billionaire who couldn't be bought, Clifton explains how even if that's true, someone needs to fund...
Islamic Terrorists. In Their Own Words
by Johnny Spooner | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“The outrage that Muslims feel over U.S. and British foreign policy is primarily the product of theological concerns” – Sam Harris The following list of quotations have been selectively edited to hammer home the dangerous buffoonery of Harris and every other...
Year Zero 84: Scott Horton on American Primacy Pt 1
by Tommy Salmons | Dec 9, 2019 | Blog, Year Zero
In Part 1 of this 2 part interview Tommy and Scott address Ukraine, Russia, and Iran. US foreign policy for the last 100 years has left millions dead around the world, and there doesn't seem to be a slow down in the interventionism of the US. What is the goal? Why is...
Pensacola: Blowback Terrorism: The problem isn’t ‘radical Islam’
by Scott Horton | Dec 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Scott Horton
Florida Senator Rick Scott is lost in the dark. After Friday’s deadly Afghan war-style “green on blue” attack by a Saudi air force officer at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, the senator issued a statement calling the shooting an act of terrorism, and...
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Boeing Incompetence Continues: The Space Launch System Debacle
We all know what is happening now with the Boeing disaster in space where two astronauts are marooned and the billion dollar taxicab is not only malfunctioning but can't be undocked without a human inside piloting the capsule away. Boeing was contracted by Never...
Anti-War Blog – Just a Meme of Their Time
So much to watch, to scroll past. To ignore. Apparently life is so busy, too much going on to care. The need to escape is paramount, to avoid reality. A reality many claim to be normal. Important even. A woman uses her degree to move about on the Olympic stage, elite...
Analysis of the ICJ’s Ruling that Israel’s Occupation Is Illegal
Scott Horton and I discuss the significance of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal.
Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
The Case for Not Voting
Bretigne Shaffer and I explain why, if you want to effect real change, the most sensible thing you can do is to not vote.
The Royal Navy Submarine Force Remains Surfaced
The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
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