Jason Ditz updates Scott on the news from the Middle East. Recently, a missing Emirati tanker that some claimed had been seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz was revealed to have simply been towed there voluntarily for repairs. In other news, the UAE has announced...
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7/17/19 Daniel McAdams on America’s Dangerous Posture Toward Iran
by Scott Horton | Jul 18, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Daniel McAdams about the influence of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton on President Trump's foreign policy. Lately they've made sure to keep up a policy of maximum pressure through economic sanctions, and to avoid negotiations at all costs. It's clear from...
7/17/19 Mark Perry on the Year America Didn’t Go to War
by Scott Horton | Jul 18, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Perry talks about the history of America's near misses on war with Iran, starting with the 1983 Beirut barracks attack that almost led to an American bombing campaign against the Iranians. According to Perry, President Reagan realized that such an attack would be...
7/15/19 Reese Erlich on What’s Really Going On in Hong Kong
by Scott Horton | Jul 17, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Reese Erlich about the demonstrations in Hong Kong against the country's proposed extradition law. After a Hong Kong man brutally murdered his girlfriend in Taiwan, and then fled back to Hong Kong, knowing he couldn't be extradited to the country where...
Scott Horton and Dave Smith talk Genocide – Video by Jacob Risenhoover
by Steven Woskow | Jul 16, 2019 | Blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ftKwJdawDw
7/12/19 Mike Maharrey on America Using SWIFT as a Foreign Policy “Billy Club”
by Scott Horton | Jul 13, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Mike Maharrey explains how the United States government uses the pressure of the dollar as the world's reserve currency to get its way in foreign policy. One method is by forcing the global SWIFT payment system to lock out countries that don't want to play ball with...
7/5/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the UAE’s Withdrawal From Yemen
by Scott Horton | Jul 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee discusses the news that UAE troops will soon be pulling out of Yemen. Arrabyee speculates that the Emirati government might realize the international stance on the war is finally turning against the Saudi coalition, and they want to get out in time to...
7/5/19 Arthur Holland Michel on the Government Surveillance Program Watching Us from the Sky
by Scott Horton | Jul 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Arthur Holland Michel about his new book on the emerging drone surveillance technology capable of watching entire cities at once. The technology was first developed to help prevent IED attacks on American soldiers in Iraq, but researchers and...
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Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems
There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has...
Up in Smoke: The Other Space Race Continues
A comprehensive ban on all nuclear testing occurred in the 1990s. The Soviet Union's last nuclear test took place on 24 October 1990; the United Kingdom's on 26 November 1991 and the United States' on 23 September 1992. Advances in the ICBM arena have continued apace...
Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
New Book Is A Must Read For Iraq War 2 Enthusiasts
Iraq War 2 is ancient history, like Athens’ defeat at Aegospotami or the NATO-Russia Founding Act. But for some of us, it seems like only yesterday we were being lied into one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the Western imperial order. There’s a new book...
It’s a Crazy World
What's to be said about people who grieve over the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza at the hands of the U.S.-backed Israeli military while simultaneously cheering the Mengele-style wrecking of children's lives in America and elsewhere at the hands of...
Fat Amy Can’t Catch a Break
Fat Amy is a nickname for the F35 Lightning II. As long as an F16 and comparable in weight to a heavy class F15, the F35 isn't necessarily a light aircraft. Flying cost per hour may have been reduced to $34,000 per hour. Maybe. The mission capable rate, the percentage...
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