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3/27/20 Reese Erlich: US Beats War Drums in Middle East

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

Scott interviews Reese Erlich about his latest antiwar.com column, which describes the dangerous game being played by the war hawks in Washington as they ratchet up tensions with Iran. The Trump administration has retaliated several times against Kataib Hezbollah...

News Roundup 3/25/20

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 25, 2020 | News Roundup

US News Colorado abolishes the death penalty. The governor also reduced the sentences of the last three remaining death row inmates to life in prison without parole. [Link] A commission examining if the US should include women in the draft or abolish it reached the...

News Roundup 3/24/20

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 24, 2020 | News Roundup

Assange Julian Assange's lawyers apply for bail because of the risk to Assange’s health posed by the coronavirus. [Link] Afghanistan Secretary of State Pompeo met with the two men claiming to be the president of Afghanistan to try to negotiate a settlement. The...

3/20/20 Tim Shorrock on Getting Along with North Korea

by Scott Horton | Mar 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Tim Shorrock shares what might be a positive side to the global coronavirus outbreak: a chance for the U.S. government to relax sanctions on Iran and North Korea. Shorrock thinks it would be easy for President Trump to announce that these sanctions will no longer be...

Pushing Towards War with Iran guest Will Porter

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 23, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest

Will Porter returns to the show to discuss the Trump admin's move towards war with Iran. The recent events happened under the cover of the coronavirus and got little attention in the MSM. Trump's civilian advisers pushed him to carry out strikes within Iran, and it...

But Why is the USA Committing Genocide in Yemen?

by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog

For the money of course, dummy. Oh yeah no I mean Iran something something yeah right.

3/20/20 Gareth Porter on the New York Times’ Ongoing Russiagate Disinformation Campaign

by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the New York Times' continued efforts to bolster the story that Russia both interfered in the 2016 presidential election and continues to do so in the lead up to the 2020 election. This time around, they allege, Russian actors are...

The Deadly Cocktail of Coronavirus and Sanctions

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 20, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #467, I discuss the deaths caused by coronavirus and US sanctions in Iran. The country has been one of the hardest hit by the outbreak so far and continues to struggle to import medical supplies due to the US sanctions. North Korean and Venezuela are in a...

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Anti-War Blog – Not Enough Paper Cranes

When I was in primary school we were taught about a little Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes. She was one of the many victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast, dying after the initial detonation from radiation sickness. One of many thousands who...

Speaking of democracy…

Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the upcoming Democratic party convention, to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024. There have been brokered conventions in...

Corruption-A-Go-Go: Taliban Continues to Receive US Funding

The US State Department needs to be disbanded and all overseas embassies should be converted to ATM-style kiosks. The Taliban has just received 239 million debt-bucks in US State Department aid. 239 millions dollars. The disaster in Afghanistan continues to cascade...

Further China Reading

From a reader: “Hello Joseph. I just ordered your book, and I noticed it was short. I would like to know if there is an up to date book on American foreign policy towards China that you could recommend that is well-researched and truthful with good policy suggestions....

Raptor Woes Continue to Plague the Air Force

More mismanagement and strategic deficit disorder at the Pentagon. The F22 Raptor is a very capable late 20th century aircraft and arguably superior to the much more expensive and increasingly anachronistic F35; it is being put out to pasture early because of...

Anti-War Blog – What Will You Do On The Day After?

They did it, finally. The wisdom of the statists, the planet ruined. Desolation, misery, nature blackened to near extinction. The whispering legacy of civilisation. The educated mastery of science and technology used to destroy it all, everything. They called it...

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