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6/10/19 Jim Bovard on Obama’s Forgotten Frauds and Debacles

by Scott Horton | Jun 11, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Jim Bovard reflects on the legacy of Barack Obama's presidency in light of Donald Trump's. Obama is garnering favorable comparisons now, explains Bovard, but we shouldn't forget all of the horrible things he did, especially on civil liberties and foreign wars. The...

I just posted my first interview from 1999.

by Scott Horton | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog

Looks like the podcast feed didn't pick it up. But it's at the bottom of the list here https://scotthorton.org/archives/

6/10/19 Doug Bandow on the Threats of War in Europe and Asia

by Scott Horton | Jun 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Doug Bandow about North Korea, China, Russia, and the rest of eastern Europe. Bandow holds out hope for the negotiations with North Korea, but fears the dangerous rhetoric coming from neoconservatives about America's relationship with China. They are...

6/7/19 Eli Clifton on Israeli Money in American Politics

by Scott Horton | Jun 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Eli Clifton discusses the influence of the Israel lobby over American politics. Even for President Trump, who famously claimed he didn't need money from big donors, Israeli and Jewish-American money is important because it can win congressional elections, and Trump...

6/7/19 Joe Lauria on the Dangerous Precedent of the Assange Indictment

by Scott Horton | Jun 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Joe Lauria discusses the dangerous legal precedent set by the case against Julian Assange, whose actions in leaking government documents are not categorically different from those of a journalist. As Glenn Greenwald points out, there's no "license" that makes someone...

5/31/19 Aaron Maté on Russiagate after the Mueller Report

by Scott Horton | Jun 2, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Aaron Maté about the continuing Russiagate narrative. Democrats have far too much invested in the idea that Trump somehow stole the election from Hillary Clinton, says Maté, to ever admit that they were wrong in their hysteria. Maté reminds us that many...

5/31/19 Daniel Ellsberg on the Importance of Whistleblowers

by Scott Horton | Jun 1, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg talks to Scott about the importance of people like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, who are keeping alive the role of good journalists in an age where the media increasingly serves the political establishment. They discuss the...

5/31/19 David Vine on the Plight of the Chagossians

by Scott Horton | May 31, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

David Vine explains the delicate situation of British colonial rule over the Chagos Archipelago, where thousands of native residents were forced to leave their homes in order for the United States to build a military base there. The UN has condemned the move in an...

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Language, Race, and Man

“Man belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself.” --Ernest Renan

The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse

Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...

Democracy and Free Stuff

Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...

They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog

As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...

Frigate Failure Follies

I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....

History and Peace

"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...