Gilbert Doctorow discusses the latest aggressive maneuvers being carried out by the U.S. government and its allies toward Russia. Doctorow says that the flying of planes near Russia's border just for intelligence gathering is quite common and relatively...
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9/25/20 Jessica Katzenstein on the Militarization of American Police
by Scott Horton | Sep 27, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America's foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization to the escalation of the war on drugs in the 1990s, when SWAT raids...
9/25/20 Grant Smith on the Israel Lobby, Tech Censorship and the 1619 Project
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his ongoing work on the Israel lobby and its influence in America. Scott likens the story of Israel and Palestine to the history of the U.S. government and the Native Americans—for a long time everyone learned a skewed version that...
9/25/20 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Latest Fake Terrorism Entrapment Scheme
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Aaronson discusses the FBI's dubious techniques for luring people into fake terrorist plots, which very often border on entrapment. In this case he takes up the story of two Americans involved in the "boogaloo" movement, who were approached by FBI agents...
We Must Prosecute American Officials For War Crimes in Yemen
by Doug Bandow | Sep 26, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently announced that it was providing $204 million in aid for the impoverished and war-ravaged country of Yemen. That sounds generous, but it’s the Saudi royals themselves who are responsible for most of the death, destruction,...
9/23/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 12 of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. A major focus of the last few days, he says, has been Assange's mental health, including a brand new diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. The defense has argued that this, combined with...
9/18/20 Tom Secker: How Homeland Security Controls Hollywood
by Scott Horton | Sep 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott inverviews Tom Secker about the immense influence that the police, the military, the intelligence agencies and, especially, the Department of Homeland Security wield in Hollywood. Secker describes the complicated process required for a writer or producer to...
9/18/20 Gareth Porter: Another Blow for ‘Russiagate’ Truthers
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the slow death of the "Russiagate" narrative, which has been allowed to live on mainly because of deliberate obfuscation by democrats and the mainstream media. Rarely do they lie outright about the facts, says Porter—instead they will...
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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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