This spring marks the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. After an initial frenzy of war fever in the early years of the war, support for the war has since largely evaporated. Nearly two thirds of veterans now say the war was "not worth...
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Russia Completes Belarusian Pilots’ Training on Nuclear Weapons Use
by Connor Freeman | Apr 19, 2023 | News
Belarusian Air Force crews have completed their training on the use of tactical nuclear weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Friday.
4/14/23 Ted Galen Carpenter on the News Media’s Role in the American Empire
by Scott Horton | Apr 17, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Ted Galen Carpenter makes his first appearance on the show as a Senior Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Scott and Carpenter discuss his most recent book about the news media’s long history of enabling Washington’s disastrous foreign policy....
3/31/23 Josh Rushing on the Persecution of Julian Assange
by Scott Horton | Apr 5, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Journalist Josh Rushing joins Scott to discuss a documentary he produced for Al Jazeera about Julian Assange. Rushing talks about his experience making the documentary, what they focused on and why they produced it now. They run through the many...
3/30/23 Dave DeCamp on Bakhmut, Nord Stream and the Escalations over Taiwan
by Scott Horton | Apr 1, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Dave DeCamp was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss some of the week’s biggest foreign policy news. They discuss Ukrainian President Zelensky’s recent comments about what would happen if Russia takes the eastern city of Bakhmut. They then move...
Our Postmodern Empire
by John Weeks | Mar 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The American Empire is engaged in one of the greatest rhetorical cons of the past century, one that involves an endless differentiation and deferral of meaning. Its “post-colonial” warfare is therefore downright postmodern. Many conservatives believe there is a plot...
Here’s How We Protect U.S. Troops in Syria…
by Ron Paul | Mar 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week saw a sharp increase in attacks on U.S. troops occupying northeastern Syria, with a drone strike against a U.S. base blamed on “pro-Iran” forces and a U.S. counter-strike said to have killed at least 19 people. After the U.S. retaliation, another strike by...
3/24/23 Kelley Vlahos on Those Most Responsible for Iraq War II
by Scott Horton | Mar 27, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Kelley Vlahos returns to the show to talk about some of the writers, pundits and government advisors most responsible for the invasion of Iraq twenty years ago. Vlahos wrote an article highlighting three awful reflections about the war written...
3/23/23 Kyle Anzalone on Somalia, Ukraine and the Growing Alliance Between Russia and China
by Scott Horton | Mar 24, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Kyle Anzalone was back on Antiwar Radio this week to run through some of the most important foreign policy news. They talked about the famine in Somalia, the ongoing War on Terror, the state of the war in Ukraine, the permanent U.S. garrison being...
Was the Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Iraq War was spawned by a deadly combination of political depravity and media complicity. Unfortunately, on the twentieth anniversary of the war, both elements of that conspiracy are being whitewashed. Instead, politicians and their pundit accomplices are...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2023 | Blog
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
by Hunter DeRensis | Mar 18, 2023 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Politics
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Iraq War II, 20 Years Later
by Scott Horton | Mar 17, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
Well it seems like only yesterday, though it was half a lifetime ago. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their men and women, especially the neoconservatives, knowingly and deliberately lied this country into starting an aggressive war against Iraq—a war they pretended...
3/10/23 Kevin Gosztola: They Lied About Iraq and Now They’re Lying About Assange
by Scott Horton | Mar 15, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with Kevin Gosztola about a project he’s working on documenting the lead-up to Iraq War II as well as his brand new book about Julian Assange. To mark the twentieth anniversary of the disastrous invasion of Iraq, Gosztola has been...
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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