Download Episode. Diego Rivera returns to talk about some of the recent successes in the effort to pass Defend the Guard. Rivera explains what the bill is and why it’s necessary. They then talk about how the movement to pass it is led by veterans of the Global War...
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The Antiwar Movement is Reborn
On February 19th, the National Mall in Washington, DC saw its largest antiwar rally in 20 years. The speakers list included four former U.S. presidential candidates and a broad and diverse collection of antiwar activists from beyond the left and right. The aptly-named...
Join Me This Sunday in DC to Stop Our Coming War with Russia
Twenty years ago this spring the U.S. government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq. Administration after administration had sanctioned and bombed and even invaded the country, but finally 20 years ago next month the Bush Administration unleashed...
2/10/23 Daniel Davis on the Russian Offensive and Other Developments in Ukraine
Download Episode. Scott interviews former Lt. Col. Daniel Davis about the war in Ukraine. Davis has been closely watching the daily developments on the ground in Ukraine. He gives an update on where things stand on all the fronts, shares his interpretation of the...
News Roundup 2/13/2023
US News A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced a bill Thursday that would repeal the congressional authorizations for the use of force from the 1991 and 2003 Iraq wars. Responsible Statecraft The US Air Force has test-launched a Minuteman...
1/27/23 James Bamford on the Many Failures of American Counterintelligence
Download Episode. Scott interviews James Bamford about some of the stories he collected for his new book about the collapse of America’s counterintelligence apparatus. They start with Russiagate and talk about how, while the government and media were screeching...
US Expands Sanctions Against Russian Wagner Group Amid Successful Offensive
The US Treasury Department has placed Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary company, and several of its affiliates on a blacklist. The move comes as the private military force helps the Kremlin capture key cities in eastern Ukraine.
The Duke in the Shining Attack Helicopter
A January 6 CNN headline read, "Prince Harry criticized by UK military figures—and Taliban—after claiming he killed 25 fighters in Afghanistan." Dear God, I thought. Had Henry Charles Albert David, aka Prince Harry, succumbed to the type of war zone fabrications made...
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