Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about where his former commanders from Afghanistan have ended up in the years since the surge. Sjursen goes through a handful of these men: almost without fail, his former generals have ended up with profitable jobs in the arms industry...
History
11/11/20 David Swanson: Leaving World War II Behind
by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews author and peace activist David Swanson in honor of Veterans' Day, or Armistice Day, as it was originally known. Swanson begins by describing the way World War II has become the justification for just about every use of military force by the United...
Robert Fisk, Foreign Correspondant
by Kym Robinson | Nov 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Robert Fisk was a journalist, a historian, and a foreign correspondent reporting on the world's wars. But as a man, he was a witness. He would go into battle armed only with his eyes, and the ammunition he carried were his words. His courage was not just that he put...
Gun Control and Racism: The Laws and Taxes Meant to Limit Minority Gun Ownership in America
by Sam Jacobs | Nov 4, 2020 | Politics
“There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control.” Stacy Swimp, President of the Frederick Douglass Society Every schoolchild knows that the Declaration of Independence declares that the basic equality of man is “self-evident.” The United...
Kamala Harris Says ‘We All End Up in the Same Place’
by Richard Booth | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog
Recently Kamala Harris tweeted a video where she's talking nonsense about "equity" and "equality" -- pandering to the left's progressives -- which ends with her saying, “equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place." End up at the same place. Well, it's...
The American People’s Justified Cynicism
by Jim Bovard | Nov 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
“The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism,” declared former president Barack Obama two years ago. But as we enter the final days of another demagoguery-drenched presidential campaign, it is time to give cynicism the credit it deserves. In an era of clueless...
On Tuesday, Antiwar Voters Might Decide the Presidential Election
by Hunter DeRensis | Nov 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On Monday [two weeks ago], on the 19th anniversary of U.S. soldiers hitting the ground in Afghanistan, dozens of people gathered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with the goal of ensuring that our men and women in uniform won’t be in Afghanistan for another anniversary....
Episode 491: Halloween Horror Movie Reviews w/ Dangerous History Podcast’s CJ Killmer
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 30, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
97 Minutes PG-13 Prof CJ Killmer is the host of the Dangerous History podcast and one of Pete's co-hosts on the Unloose the Goose podcast. Pete and CJ got together for a crossover episode in which they review the 1985 cult-horror classics "Fright Night," and "Return...
Blog
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...
The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
Anti-War Blog – Not Enough Paper Cranes
When I was in primary school we were taught about a little Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes. She was one of the many victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast, dying after the initial detonation from radiation sickness. One of many thousands who...
Speaking of democracy…
Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the upcoming Democratic party convention, to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024. There have been brokered conventions in...
Corruption-A-Go-Go: Taliban Continues to Receive US Funding
The US State Department needs to be disbanded and all overseas embassies should be converted to ATM-style kiosks. The Taliban has just received 239 million debt-bucks in US State Department aid. 239 millions dollars. The disaster in Afghanistan continues to cascade...
Further China Reading
From a reader: “Hello Joseph. I just ordered your book, and I noticed it was short. I would like to know if there is an up to date book on American foreign policy towards China that you could recommend that is well-researched and truthful with good policy suggestions....
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