Ben Freeman joins Scott to talk about his new study on the Emirati lobby, which wields enormous power in Washington D.C. The UAE generally has a good reputation in America, usually being associated with glamor, cosmopolitanism, and vast oil wealth. In reality, their...
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10/11/19 Matt Taibbi on the Fake ‘Ukrainegate’ Whistleblower
by Scott Horton | Oct 13, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Matt Taibbi talks about the bizarre origins of the Ukraine impeachment inquiry being conducted in Congress. He carefully explains the distinction between real whistleblowers like Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, who risked their lives and freedom to expose genuine...
10/10/19 Daniel Davis on the Proper US Policy in Syria
by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Davis discusses President Trump's recent announcement that he wants to withdraw American troops from Syria. He made a similar announcement a year ago, and just like back then, he's now being met with fierce opposition, along with claims that to leave now would...
Ayatollah Khamenei: Nukes Are Haram
by Scott Horton | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog
We already know that's been the edict in Iran since his predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini, banned pursuit of nuclear weapons back in the 1980s. But here Khamenei is repeating it, again. “Building and stockpiling nuclear bombs is wrong and using it is haram (religiously...
10/8/19 Dan McKnight on the Need to Bring Our Troops Home from the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Oct 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Dan McKnight joins Scott to discuss his very important organization, Bring Our Troops Home, which argues against America's endless wars in the Middle East from a constitutional conservative position. Scott explains how the left has always been pretty good on the war...
10/7/19 Reese Erlich on Turkey, Syria, and Egypt
by Scott Horton | Oct 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Reese Erlich about the situation in Turkey, where the government is beginning to carry out a plan to get rid of the country's Kurdish population in a kind of soft genocide that consists mostly in displacing native Kurds with Syrian refugees. Scott and...
10/4/19 Andrew Cockburn on the America’s Military-Industrial Swamp
by Scott Horton | Oct 6, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Andrew Cockburn talks about what he calls the legal corruption of the U.S. government and various lobbying industries. Whether it's arms manufacturers, steel, farmers, or health insurance, practically every major industry in the U.S.—and some industries abroad—works...
10/4/19 Adam Wunische on the Real Costs of the War in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Oct 6, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Adam Wunische joins the show to discuss his work in assessing the true costs of the war in Afghanistan and the future of the American military there. He and Scott remind us that most metrics used to describe the costs of war assume that you can put a value on the loss...
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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....
Raptor Woes Continue to Plague the Air Force
More mismanagement and strategic deficit disorder at the Pentagon. The F22 Raptor is a very capable late 20th century aircraft and arguably superior to the much more expensive and increasingly anachronistic F35; it is being put out to pasture early because of...
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