Scott interviews John Kiriakou about the history of the CIA's secret torture program. Kiriakou was involved in the 2002 capture of Abu Zubaydah, who was initially interrogated with some success by the FBI, before his interrogation was eventually taken over by the CIA....
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Police Officers and Judges Are The Very Worst Criminals in Our Society
by Scott Horton | Dec 25, 2019 | Blog
That's why all good and decent people hate them so much.
The Christmas Truce of 1914: Proof that Peace Is Possible
by Thomas L. Knapp | Dec 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As 1914 drew to a close, Europe had been at war for months. On the Western Front, opposing armies faced each other across a stalemated front line running from the North Sea to the Swiss border. On December 24, 100,000 soldiers from both sides of that line decided to...
Dare Not Believe
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2019 | Blog
But certainly hope that John Durham nails John Brennan to the wall. That would be nice.
Iran: Deaths in custody. Sexual violence. Hunger strikes.
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2019 | Blog
Nah. U.S.A. Today: What we uncovered inside ICE facilities across the US
WATCH: Cops Frame Innocent Brothers for Cocaine, Try to Destroy Video—But it Survived
by Matt Agorist | Dec 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
New York, NY — To all those who make the bogus claim of “if you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about,” consider the following case as even more evidence of how ridiculous that assertion is. Two innocent brothers were framed by NYPD cops who were...
Good Economic Theory Focuses on Explanation, Not Prediction
by Frank Shostak | Dec 19, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
In order to establish the state of the economy, economists employ various theories. Yet what are the criteria for how they decide whether the theory employed is helpful in ascertaining the facts of reality? According to the popular way of thinking, our knowledge of...
Even by Afghanistan’s grim standards, 2019 has been particularly deadly for children
by Steven Woskow | Dec 19, 2019 | Blog
The real cost of war AP. A new report by the U.N. children’s agency, released Tuesday, says that in the first nine months of this year, nine children were killed or maimed every day as a result of war. Since the ICRC began its rehabilitation program in Afghanistan in...
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Why We Should Study China
I would posit that there is no civilization so utterly foreign to Americans than China. Often, American impressions of China are informed by preconceptions, myth, and fear of the other. For the average American, the sum of all knowledge about China is derived...
Kennedy Tonight
Tonight I'll be back on Kennedy Nation talking central banking and war. Update:
Cuban Missile Crisis Things
This old New Yorker piece about Curtis LeMay has some details about the Missile Crisis that I did not know and want to save here for someday. So we all already knew that 1: the USSR did already have operational short and medium range missiles in Cuba, but Khrushchev...
Happy April Glaspie Day!
Thank you, Julian Assange: SADDAM'S MESSAGE OF FRIENDSHIP TO PRESIDENT BUSH Date:1990 July 25, 12:46 (Wednesday) Canonical ID:90BAGHDAD4237_a Original Classification:SECRET Current Classification:SECRET Handling Restrictions-- Not Assigned -- Character Count:13633...
Call Your Congressmen and Senators Re Yemen War Powers Resolution
In the House it's HJ Res 87, in the Senate it's SJ Res 54. Call 833 STOP WAR and they will connect you directly to your representatives. If you have a Democratic Congressman, tell them the President said he wants to end this war. He needs us to support him on this to...
DeSantis: the Right’s Obama
Yeah, so he's been pretty good on one thing. Otherwise he's just a Republican, says Reed Coverdale.
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