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10/9/20 Jacob Sullum: The Case Against Joe Biden

by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Reason Magazine's Jacob Sullum discusses the case against Joe Biden, including his record on crime, the war in Iraq and the surveillance state. Sullum focuses on Biden's history as a "tough on crime" democrat, explaining the ways Biden worked closely with senate...

10/2/20 Andy Worthington on His Assange Extradition Hearing Testimony

by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Andy Worthington about his testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Worthington reminds us how important the revelations in Chelsea Manning's Guantanamo Files leak were, stressing just how much harm has been done to the dozens of men held,...

10/2/20 Danny Sjursen on the Latest Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Danny Sjursen explains the complicated situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, a piece of Azerbaijani territory that has been under de facto Armenian control since the 1990s. Nagorno-Karabakh is the result of Stalin's territorial divisions, which very often failed to conform...

10/2/20 Nicolas Davies on America’s Culpability for the War in Yemen

by Scott Horton | Oct 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Nicolas Davies about America's continuing role in the war in Yemen. Although the Trump administration has ended some of the more direct involvement like mid-air refueling of Saudi bombers, Saudi Arabia still very much relies on our help to wage its war...

10/2/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 17 of the Assange Extradition Hearing

by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Kevin Gosztola discusses two major points from the recent round of testimony in the Assange hearing. First, the defense has been trying to emphasize the deplorable conditions Assange would be likely to face in an American supermax prison. This is something a judge...

10/1/20 Trevor Timm on His Assange Extradition Hearing Testimony

by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Trevor Timm is back with an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Timm was a witness for the defense, where he argued against the idea that what Assange and WikiLeaks do is categorically different than the activity of other journalists. The prosecution has...

9/28/20 Kevin Gosztola: Week Four of the Assange Extradition Hearing

by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing, where most recently the defense has been debunking the prosecution's claim that Assange engaged in a hacking scheme with Chelsea Manning. Gosztola says the defense was able to establish...

9/25/20 Jessica Katzenstein on the Militarization of American Police

by Scott Horton | Sep 27, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America's foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization to the escalation of the war on drugs in the 1990s, when SWAT raids...

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Economics and Everyday Life, 2

"[E]conomic relations constitute a machinery by which men devote their energies to the immediate accomplishment of each other's purposes in order to secure the ultimate accomplishment of their own, irrespective of what those purposes of their own may be, and therefore...

Anti-War Blog – She Was Only Ten Years Old

She was only ten years of age. A girl. A daughter. Innocent. Tala Abu Ajwa was roller skating in early September when Israeli government missiles took her life, along with several other civilians. The image of Tala’s pink roller skates still attached to her young body...

CG Announcement November 2024

Me contemplating the Herculean task before me... I will be pausing Chasing Ghosts from its fortnightly cadence of issuance for the remainder of the year. I am taking the time to regroup and focus on the new occasional podcast, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast as a...

Economics and Everyday Life

"[T]he general principles which regulate our conduct in business are identical with those which regulate our deliberations, our selections between alternatives, and our decisions, in all other branches of life. And this is why we not only may, but must, take our...

The Government Is Full of Domestic Imperialists | Guest: Keith Knight | Ep 306

https://youtu.be/1wmTo16dWck As the Cabinet appointees within the incoming Trump administration take shape, there is cause for hope among libertarians, as well as some cause for concern. Matt Kibbe is joined by Keith Knight, managing editor at the Libertarian...

Want to Know What’s REALLY Happening in Ukraine? Plus, Netanyahu’s Arrest Warrant! Watch Episode 1 of The Kyle Anzalone Show

In the first episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show, I explore global conflicts, focusing on the ICC's war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I question whether justice will be served and highlight the...