Scott interviews Barbara Slavin from the Atlantic Council. Slavin recently co-authored an article with Abbas Kadhim about how Iran’s influence in the middle east has grown substantially since the U.S. overthrew Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Slavin explains that the...
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8/4/21 Muntadhar al-Zaidi on the Infamous George Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident
Scott talks to Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi man who famously threw his shoes at George W. Bush in 2008. At the time, Al-Zaidi hoped to bring awareness to the suffering inflicted on the Iraqi people by Bush's war. He has continued his activism in the years since,...
George Bush’s Damnable Afghan War Lies
Former President George W. Bush is bewailing President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Bush told Fox News last week, “I’m also deeply concerned about the sacrifices of our soldiers, and our intelligence community, will be forgotten,”...
Re: Oh Yeah, That Oughta Help
Biden is delighted to get support from Cindy McCain - that should motivate the democrats progressive base. After all, McCain was such an honorable man that lived by a code "country first". Now McCain is the new democrat hero - right along side George Bush. People...
9/18/20 Grant Smith on the Exaggerated Significance of Evangelical Zionists in America
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the role of evangelical Christians in the Zionist movement in America. Grant examines the premise that evangelicals are the most significant driving force behind American support for Israel, a popular notion ever since George Bush Sr....
R.I.P. Stephen F. Cohen
Caitlin Johnstone "One of the few precious voices of sanity on Russia". Stephen F. Cohen, an eminent historian whose books and commentaries on Russia examined the rise and fall of Communism, Kremlin dictatorships and the emergence of a post-Soviet nation still...
Fox News Documentary Puts Brutality of the Militarized Central State on Full Display
K. Lloyd Billingsley has a review of a new Fox News documentary about George Bush Sr.'s Ruby Ridge slaughter over at the Independent Institute . "[T]he issue was not the left versus right but the militarized central state versus individual life and liberty." Read the...
Bin Laden Has Won
The Giant blinked. American power does not have the capability to deal with this situation in a way that won't end badly. As I said earlier, Islamic Civilization has intergenerational aspirations. Iran are not the "madmen" the neocons portray, but based on many...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
