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4/10/20 Daniel Lazare on Coronavirus and the Military

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

Daniel Lazare talks about the grave danger facing the U.S. military of coronavirus sweeping through environments like infantry barracks, submarines, and aircraft carries with almost no possibility for social distancing and quarantine. Already the spread of the virus...

4/10/20 Tommy Salmons on Life as a Trucker During Coronavirus

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

Scott interviews Tommy Salmons about what life is like for truck drivers these days. Salmons describes dealing with longer hours, different routes and products, deserted truck stops and empty roads. Scott reminds everyone just how important it is that people like...

4/10/20 Christine Ahn on the Implications of Coronavirus on Peace in Korea

by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Christine Ahn talks about U.S. relations with North Korea in light of the global coronavirus outbreak. President Trump made what in Ahn's mind was a very good move when he offered to help North Korea in any way he can a few weeks ago. Some members of his...

4/3/20 Doug Bandow on the Fake North Korean Threat and America’s Role in Yemen

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

Scott interviews Doug Bandow about his recent article for the National Interest, which discusses the effects of the coronavirus on U.S. relations with North Korea. Bandow explains how after years of hand-wringing over the imminent threat posed by Kim Jong-un's...

3/27/20 Hassan El-Tayyab on America’s Ongoing Genocide in Yemen

by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Hassan El-Tayyab talks to Scott about the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen, where the U.S. continues to help Saudi Arabia wage an aggressive war against the Middle East's poorest country. Scott reminds us that President Trump could end the war with a single phone...

3/27/20 Ted Carpenter on Liberty and the Coronavirus

by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Ted Carpenter discusses the possible ramifications of the coronavirus on both the economy and our personal liberties. He first reminds us that this is not a question of sacrificing economic productivity for the sake of saving lives, as some would have us...

3/27/20 Eli Clifton on the Crushing US Sanctions on Iran

by Scott Horton | Mar 29, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Eli Clifton about the U.S. sanctions regime against Iran. These sanctions were already having a severe impact on the ability of Iranian civilians to conduct business and buy necessary goods, and in the face of coronavirus they could turn an already...

3/27/20 Charlie Davis on Skateboarding Culture in the West Bank

by Scott Horton | Mar 29, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Charlie Davis talks about his project, Skate Palestine, which is trying to spread the sport of skateboarding to Palestinians in the West Bank. He says that Palestinians, already perceived by the state of Israel as outsiders in their own homeland, are in some ways...

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Holocaust – On Behalf of Those Who Died Alone

The tubes connected to my arm are melting. I am surrounded by flames moving closer and closer like an angry mob waving torches above their heads. Except there are no people around. I have been yelling for help at the top of my lungs, but no one can hear me. Or if they...

Hey Moe! Hey Larry! Look, It’s the Army Watercraft Circus!

Not only can they not float a portable pier [Gaza] (at a cool burn rate of 335 million debt-bucks) but they can't maintain an aging fleet of maritime connectors. The Army continues to trip over itself in most missions. Maybe they could reach zero by 2028 in the...

The US Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Contemporary Military Incompetence

The six-thousand-ton INS Arihant sank in 2017 and remained out of service at the docks while the water was pumped out, and the pipes replaced. The entire process took ten months. Imagine not only not having the sea sense to seal your boat before diving but having no...

Israeli War Crimes Documented by the Israeli Defense Forces

There’s no sense denying Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and wanton destruction when its war crimes are documented by its own armed forces.

Government Subsidy of K-PhD: The Suicide Pact of Western Civilization

The German Empire arranged passage for Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, to Russia to try to seize power from the government. They traveled on an armored train through Germany then took a ship to Sweden where...

Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues

I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren't in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers. The DoD has...