Don't worry everyone! John Durham, the same honorless scumbag Obama's attorney general Eric Holder used to put the final coverup on George W. Bush's lawless torture and murder regime, has been appointed by current attorney general Barr to get to the bottom of the...
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Iraq War III 1/2 (Including Syria) is Going to Stay Ugly As Hell From Now On
by Scott Horton | Apr 19, 2019 | Blog
Thanks to the U.S.A., George W. Bush's war in Iraq and Barack Obama's war in Syria caused this. Ain't no way to fix it now. Especially in western Iraq. Those people are screwed forever.
Antiwar Republican Congressman Walter Jones Dies After Long Illness
by Eric Garris | Feb 10, 2019 | Blog
Rep. Walter Jones, one of the most consistently antiwar members of Congress, has died at age 75 after an extended illness. The Republican lawmaker had battled a series of ailments in recent years and was granted a leave of absence from Congress late last year after...
12/3/18 Barry Lando on the First Iraq War
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Journalist Barry Lando talks about the history of American hostilities in Iraq, beginning with Saddam Hussein's invasion of the oil fields of Kuwait after Kuwait refused to forgive Saddam's debts from his war against Iran. Lando explains that Saddam had been led to...
What Vox Gets Wrong with Its “11 biggest myths about Israel-Palestine”
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I’ve written an article titled “Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” that is among my all-time most popular, so when I learned that Vox has a feature called “The 11 biggest myths about Israel-Palestine”, I naturally took an interest. Unfortunately,...
6/6/18 Ray McGovern on Trump's National Security Council Warmongering with Iran
by Scott Horton | Jun 6, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern returns to the show to discuss his latest article, "Bolton Flunky Fleitz Raises Stakes for Iran." McGovern explains why the role of the NSC and the cabinet play a vital role in national security and foreign policy decisions and gives the background on...
Back to the future? Bolton, Trump and Iranian regime change
by Gareth Porter | May 20, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Now that the Trump administration has derailed the Iran nuclear deal, the old issue of regime change in Iran is back again. National Security Advisor John Bolton is obviously the chief regime-change advocate in the administration, and there is every reason to believe...
4/27/18 Tim Shorrock on the Latest Developments on the Korean Peninsula
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Tim Shorrock returns to the show to discuss the encouraging developments on the Korean peninsula and the prospects for peace. Scott also takes the opportunity to give a brief history lesson on how the situation with North Korea got to this point (spoiler: it was...
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Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On
The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...
Blaming Freedom
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
Insurrection of the Mind.
Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...
They Know the Truth
Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...
Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov
I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...
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