Scott talks with Peter Van Buren about the situation in Afghanistan. Van Buren explains that many of the people tasked with working on the Afghanistan War were, in fact, working to cover up their own role in the war. And that these individual failures played off each...
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Furious Over Afghanistan? Blame Republicans, Too
"Americans want someone to fault, and, understandably, they're pointing the finger at President Joe Biden, whoas commander-in-chief does deserve the brunt of the immediate blame. But the truth is that Biden's deadly mistakes are a symptom of a thoroughly rotten...
News Roundup 8/30/21
US News Fauci backs vaccine mandates for US children and says the FDA should have enough data by October to determine if it is safe for children. [Link] Video surfaces of a Colorado cop murdering a dog. After shooting the dog, the officer refused to let the owner...
‘Newspaper Generals’: The Shared Legacy of David Petraeus and Nelson Miles
As the United States closes the door on its two-decade war in Afghanistan, the last person the American people need to hear from is the man who not only contributed to the war being prolonged a decade, but who wants it to continue for another (or more). And yet here...
News Roundup 8/25/21
US news SCOTUS rules Biden cannot end Trump’s ‘remain in Mexico’ policy. [Link] China VP Kamala Harris visited Vietnam and offered the country more support to counter China and said the US would send more warships to Vietnam. [Link] Harris says China uses coercion and...
8/20/21 Trita Parsi on the True Drivers of Middle East Instability
Scott interviews Trita Parsi about his paper concerning the intervention of Middle East powers over the last decade. Parsi and his coauthor Matthew Petti found that, contrary to the picture often painted of one malign actor driving all the instability, there are...
Throttling the Truth: Why the Case of Julian Assange Is More Important Than Ever
In a world with a functional Fourth Estate, the case of Julian Assange would be on the front page of major newspapers every day. Instead, it has been all but blacked out. Perhaps this makes sense, given that the raison d’être of Wikileaks, according to its founder,...
Peter Bergen Is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy
Famous journalist and terrorism expert Peter Bergen is making a big mistake. Give the man credit: he had the courage to travel to Tora Bora with Peter Arnett to interview bin Laden in person back in 1997. However, as seen in this clip from his appearance on C-SPAN 2’s...
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