Danny Sjursen talks about the ways his experience in Iraq convinced him of the futility of that war, allowing him to see things that the generals and the war planners often could not. Sjursen says that not all officers paid attention to the local situation or to the...
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11/22/19 Philip Weiss on Israel-Palestine and Zionist Politics in America
by Scott Horton | Nov 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Philip Weiss discusses the latest in Israeli politics, where incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently been indicted on corruption charges. Neither Netanyahu nor his main opponent, Benny Gantz, have yet been able to form a government, and Weiss thinks...
11/22/19 Donald Bolduc on Limiting US Military Intervention
by Scott Horton | Nov 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Donald Bolduc shares some of his experience from his time overseas with the U.S. army during the terror wars. He spells out the fact that although America's mission is ostensibly to suppress groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS, we often end up supporting the very same...
11/22/19 Peter Van Buren on the Lasting Damage of Russiagate
by Scott Horton | Nov 22, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren rehashes some of the details behind the surveillance of the Trump campaign through FISA warrants on Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, which originally opened up the "Russiagate" investigation into Trump. Now the same anti-Trump plot has expanded...
11/18/19 Ted Snider on the Bolivian Coup America’s Always Wanted
by Scott Horton | Nov 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ted Snider about his recent article, "Finally Got Him," which explores the details behind the coup in Bolivia. Although it's being held up as a triumph of democracy, Snider says this is obviously a coup, just like recent cases in Venezuela, Brazil,...
11/15/19 Jimmy Dore on the Moral Bankruptcy of the Democratic Party
by Scott Horton | Nov 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to comedian Jimmy Dore about all the problems with the foreign policy positions of the Democratic presidential candidates. He and Scott agree that the only one with a halfway decent antiwar stance is Tulsi Gabbard, who the media has been trying their...
11/15/19 Daniel Ellsberg on America’s Hair-Trigger Nuclear Holocaust
by Scott Horton | Nov 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg discusses the Kings Bay Plowshares case, in which he was set to testify as an expert witness before such testimony was banned by the judge at the last moment. His testimony would have centered on the threat that these Trident missiles pose to end...
11/15/19 Eric Margolis on the Fall of Communism and the New Cold War
by Scott Horton | Nov 18, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Eric Margolis about the history of the Soviet Union and its aftermath, in honor of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall last week. Margolis reminds us what a mistake the Cold War was, as is the new Cold War that American neocons and...
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Collision Alarm: Terror on the Horizon
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell." -William Tecumseh Sherman I hate to say I told...
Honest Voices In The Intellectual Ecosystem
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/8-14-24-matthew-hoh-on-obamas-folly-in-afghanistan-and-recourses-for-managing-and-dealing-with-ptsd/ Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton recently interviewed former USMC Captain / former State Department official Matthew Hoh....
Sealift Takes a Dump: The US Navy Continues to Degrade
Another USN ship disaster in the offing. Contrary to what one would first think, this is tangential to the "IED* recruiting crisis." This is due to a separate recruiting crisis in Military Sealift Command (MSC) caused by the extreme workloads the civilian mariners who...
Anti-War Blog “Won’t somebody think of the children!”
The French government has recently arrested and detained Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram. The alleged offence is that the messaging app is not policing and governing what it’s users do. So a national government has kidnapped and demands that the CEO give up access to...
Broken: The American Shipbuilding Crisis
USS The Sullivans sinking in New York in 2022. Over the decades, the destroyers have fallen into various states of disrepair. In April 2022, The Sullivans suffered a hull breach and partially sank at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo,...
Surprise! Ukrainian Aid is Mismanaged
One discovers that war-making by the West after WWII around the world started to see a trend that Smedley Butler would knowingly nod at as the sophisticated money-laundering complex to provide weapons and assistance in hundreds of conflicts.The tracking and auditing...
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