Scott celebrates eleven years on the radio by interviewing Gareth Porter about Biden’s first year in office. They discuss the negotiations between the Administration and Iran over a return to the JCPOA. Despite many crossovers with the team that reached an agreement...
National Security State
Excellent Greenwald Interview on Fox News!
by Scott Horton | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog
He kills it on the lawless national security state, namely NSA blackmail of Congress and the DoJ's merciless persecution of Julian Assange, along with Assange's father and brother. https://youtu.be/yH1qfFMu2eE
8/31/20 Gareth Porter on Israel’s Ammonium Nitrate Terror Plot Delusion
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter debunks a series of bogus incidents in which Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, has accused various Lebanese men over the years of being Hezbollah agents attempting to orchestrate terrorist plots all around the world. In each of the cases that Porter...
Only American to lead FBI and CIA says Trump presents ‘dire threat’ to country
by Scott Horton | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog
Of course he does. He's a president of the U.S. government after all. But man, either the National Security State has the dumbest PR department in history or Trump has the most brilliant one. But he probably couldn't really afford to pay them what it would cost for...
3/19/19 Gareth Porter on War with Iran
by Scott Horton | Mar 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Gareth Porter about war with Iran. Porter is still convinced most people realize that such a war would be so costly in lives and dollars that it's not even worth considering, but worries about National Security Advisor John Bolton, who has been able to...
Democrats Lead Surge in Belief U.S. Should Be World Leader
by Scott Horton | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog
You know, since the president is a foreign spy. All good liberals must rally around the national security state to protect America!
10/3/18 Gareth Porter on Trump and the American Empire
by Scott Horton | Oct 8, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter is interviewed on his article for Truthdig, "Can Trump Take Down the American Empire?" Porter talks about revelations in the Bob Woodward book "Fear", about the Trump presidency, and how they may pertain to the American Empire. Porter also talks about...
11/29/17 Jacob Hornberger on abolishing the U.S. national security state
by Damon Hatheway | Nov 29, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
President of the Future of Freedom Foundation Jacob Hornberger returns to the show to discuss the welfare/warfare state and the harm it's done to the country. Hornberger makes the case that today's national security state is a post-World War II creation to fight the...
TGIF: Operation CYA – Afghanistan
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Steve Bannon's Breitbart and others notwithstanding, that was Trump being Trump when he announced he would not be quitting Afghanistan, despite the manifest futility and counterproductivity -- that is, idiocy -- of America's 16-year war there. He is not a captive of...
The National Security State: the Biggest Mistake in U.S. History
by Jacob Hornberger | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Republished via the Future of Freedom Foundation: The Future of Freedom Foundation hosted one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history. Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June...
5/23/17 Jacob Hornberger on the drug war and his upcoming conference on JFK
by Scott Horton | May 23, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Jacob Hornberger with the Future of Freedom Foundation at FFF.org. Jacob talks about his upcoming conference, “The National Security State and JFK”, at the Dulles Airport Marriot in Northern Virginia on June 3rd, 2017, at which both Ron Paul and...
The National Security State Was One Big Mistake
by Jacob Hornberger | Apr 19, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The year 1989 brought an unexpected shock to the U.S. national-security establishment. The Soviet Union suddenly and unexpectedly tore down the Berlin Wall, withdrew Soviet troops from East Germany and Eastern Europe, dissolved the Warsaw Pact, dismantled the Soviet...
3/13/17 Jacob Hornberger on upcoming FFF events including ‘End the War on Drugs’ conference
by Scott Horton | Mar 13, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Jacob Hornberger, president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his effort to educate more African-American college students about the evils of the war on drugs, since they are disproportionately effected by racist drug laws, yet typically make up a small...
2/24/17 Gareth Porter on why Trump’s Iran policy will be much like Obama’s, despite all his tough talk
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses why Trump's anti-Iran talk is not much different than that of the last several administrations' before his, going back to...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
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
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...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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