Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, said last week that the US is “supporting” Ukrainian attacks on Crimea and called Russian military installations on the peninsula “legitimate targets.” Nuland made the comments when asked about a...
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The Power-Serving Lie That Anti-War Protests Have No Impact
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 21, 2023 | Featured Articles
Thousands of people from across the political spectrum gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC to protest US militarism, proxy warfare and nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine on Sunday. I’ve been seeing some people try to downplay the numbers on social media,...
Macron: France Won’t Respond to a Nuclear Strike on Ukraine With Nuclear Weapons
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 16, 2022 | News
French President Emmanuel Macron answered questions about Paris’s nuclear weapons policy in a Wednesday television interview. He indicated that Moscow detonating a nuclear weapon in Ukraine would not cause Paris to use its nukes. Macron is facing criticism for his remarks.
Scott Horton on CSPAN2 Book TV for Hotter Than the Sun 8/28-8/29
by Connor Freeman | Aug 28, 2022 | Blog
Scott Horton, our Director and host of the Scott Horton Show, will be on CSPAN2 Book TV discussing his new book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. This interview took place at FreedomFest last month and airs today (6:05pm EDT) and tomorrow (6:05am...
Moscow Accuses Washington of ‘Unreasonable and Unnecessary Escalation’
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 9, 2022 | News Roundup
Russia claims the US provoked the Kremlin with a request to inspect Moscow's nuclear weapons under the New Start treaty. The Kremlin recently announced it was suspending American inspections because Western sanctions were preventing Russians from implementing checks...
US, South Korea & Japan Increase Military Ties Over Concerns About North Korean Weapons Tests
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 29, 2022 | News Roundup
On the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid, President Joe Biden spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. While the summit's focus is on Moscow, Washington is taking advantage of the gathering of world leaders to...
North Korea Tests New ‘Tactical Guided Weapon’ as US, South Korea Set to Begin Joint War Games
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 17, 2022 | News Roundup
North Korea fired two missiles it claims are "new-type tactical guided weapons." The test comes a day before the US and South Korea kick off joint war games. Bloomberg reported a message from the South Korean military claiming the two missiles traveled about 60...
Russia Says US Gave ‘Written Guarantees’ on Iran Nuclear Cooperation
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 16, 2022 | News Roundup
Russia says it has received “written guarantees” that US sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine will not impact its nuclear cooperation with Iran, as diplomats on all sides of negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal say the talks are nearly complete.
12/22/21 Gareth Porter on Iran and Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Dec 26, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
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...
3/18/21 Daryl Kimball: Enough Already, No New ICBMs
by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Daryl Kimball talks about the need to limit the creation and proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world. Today, says Kimball, the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction: a $200 billion plan is in the works to update and expand America's nuclear arsenal, even...
12/6/19 Tom Collina: America’s Dangerous “Nuclear Sponge”
by Scott Horton | Dec 8, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Tom Collina tells Scott about the "nuclear sponge", a collection of land-based nuclear weapons in America's upper midwest, whose real purpose is just to absorb the strikes of a nuclear attack by a hostile power rather than to actually be used in an attack of their...
Ayatollah Khamenei: Nukes Are Haram
by Scott Horton | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog
We already know that's been the edict in Iran since his predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini, banned pursuit of nuclear weapons back in the 1980s. But here Khamenei is repeating it, again. “Building and stockpiling nuclear bombs is wrong and using it is haram (religiously...
08/03/09 Gordon Prather: Iran and North Korea’s Nuclear Programs
by Scott Horton | Aug 3, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Gordon Prather, former nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses unsubstantiated claims Iran is secretly building nukes, the IAEA going beyond the scope of their mandate in Iran dealings, Bill Clinton's broken promises regarding N....
Is Iran Building Nukes?
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 8, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #372, I discuss the mainstream reaction to Iran's small increase in uranium enrichment. Many are pushing the false claim that Iran is now breaking the nuclear deal and is on the path to building a bomb, but I explain what is actually happening with the...
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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...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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