Unfortunately, spending is up 7.6% to $2.57 trillion. The largest increase is debt service, up 13.6% from last year. This is in a low interest rate environment. The Fed is trapped in maintaining low interest rates. Danielle DiMartino: "Fed controlled rates...
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Bipartisanship
by Scott Horton | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog
"Consider this: three of my soldiers were killed and one committed suicide under Bush II; three more were killed and two more took their own lives under Obama - now there’s a balanced scorecard!" -Danny Sjursen
Carter to Trump: USA Has Been Wasting Money on All the Wars He Started
by Scott Horton | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog
Politico: He told Sunday’s congregation that Trump said he felt China was “'getting ahead of us,'” adding that he agreed with the president. “And do you know why? I normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Since 1979, do you know how many times China has...
This Morning on Antiwar Radio
by Scott Horton | Apr 14, 2019 | Blog
Philip Weiss on Netanyahu and the liberal crack-up over Israel. 8:30 Pacific, 90.7 FM in L.A. http://kpfk.org
AIPAC Targets Sanders
by Scott Horton | Apr 13, 2019 | Blog
The first Jewish president? Not if the Israel Lobby has anything to say about it. He's not Zionist enough. And as we all know, there's only one possible explanation for that: Bernie Sanders is evidently a vicious anti-Semite.
The Impact of War
by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog
George O'Neill Jr. of the Committee for a Responsible Foreign Policy has been hosting antiwar events in Washington, D.C. for the past couple of years, including one last October when I gave a speech about the war on terrorism. The transcripts of all these events are...
The Ripple Effect Interview
by Scott Horton | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog
I was on Ricky Varandas's show last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKYeAoUyb1o
Dem Party Crack-up on Israel Continues
by Scott Horton | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog
So, MoveOn.org, the liberal and very-tied to the Democratic Party pressure group, took the huge step today of asking the Dem presidential candidates to boycott the upcoming AIPAC meeting in DC. So they agreed: Warren, Harris, Sanders, O'Rourke, Schultz are all...
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You don’t need the sun glasses…
It turns out wearing the glasses made no difference. In the John Carpenter film, They Live, our hero John Nada is one in many workers stumbling from hunger to poverty and piece work in an economy that is only built to exploit them. It’s a film both critical of Reagan...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Jim Webb: Trump to Netanyahu: ‘You’re F**king Crazy’
Trump didn’t just get “frustrated” with Netanyahu. He confirmed he told him, “Are you effing crazy,” and that single moment raises a bigger question: if the White House is truly fed up, why does the region still look like it’s sliding toward wider war? Jim Webb joins...
The Other Side of the Slap
I spent a lot of time dealing with the victim of violence. That betrayal only a lover can express, the sinister switch from affection or at least the performance required to invent love, to twist into a tantrum of rage. The bruising and cuts, a secondary blistering to...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Meeting in Situation Room to Decide on Iran Deal
A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,”...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Daniel McAdams: Axios Says US–Iran Deal Reached as U.S. and IRAN Trade Missile Fire
Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is...
To Baptize the State w/John Weeks
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
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