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50 Years Of Unhinged, Televised Presidential Warmongering

by Jim Bovard | May 3, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon popped up on national television on a Thursday night to proudly announce that he invaded Cambodia. At that time, Nixon was selling himself as a peacemaker, promising to withdraw U.S. troops from the Vietnam War. But after the...

Attorney General William Barr’s Summary of the Mueller Report

by Scott Horton | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog

Via: the New York Times: The Attorney General Washington, D.C. March 24, 2019 Dear Chairman Graham, Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Ranking Member Collins: As a supplement to the notification provided on Friday, March 22, 2019, I am writing today to...

William Barr: Enemy of the Constitution?

by Norman Singleton | Jan 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding the second day of hearings on President Trumps nomination of William Barr as Attorney General. Barr previously served as Attorney General for President George H. W.Bush from 1991-1993. Barr has a long history of opposing gun...

William C. Bradford and the “Law” of Negan’s Bat

by Will Grigg | Nov 20, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice, Will Grigg

President-elect Donald Trump has thousands of executive branch positions to fill, including the spot in the Office of Legal Counsel once occupied by the detestable war criminal John C. Yoo. William C. Bradford, an obscure, disgraced ex-West Point instructor and...

11/2/16 Liza Goitein on the new era of secret law

by Scott Horton | Nov 2, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show

Liza Goitein, Co-Director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, discusses her report on “The New Era of Secret Law” in the US, including the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel’s secret interpretations of existing laws against torture...

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Roast in Hell Karl Marx

On this day when Karl Marx became a good communist.

Parenting w/Kyle Matovcik

Kyle joined me to discuss what to expect when becoming a parent. Alp

Chinese Chess Moves: A Tectonic Shift in Exquisite Platforms

If the Saab 37 Viggen and the F16 had a love child, it is the Chinese J-10C. The realignment begins, you are witnessing a tectonic shift away from US influence in all the conflict hot-spots on Earth. Meanwhile, the J-10C is equipped to fight against modern threats in...

All Flesh is Forfeit

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Aerial robotics dominate the battlefield. For the remainder of this century, ALL flesh is forfeit in the combat theater. The Kursk Thunder Run

Why Economic Growth Comes from Saving, Not Spending

Keith Knight and I debunk Paul Krugman’s argument that government spending is the cure for economic slumps.

Overlord: Thomas Eddlem Unmasks The Empire

Thousands of scholars have taken on the central geopolitical question: Is the United States of America an empire? It’s a fierce debate that has unfolded over decades, places the moral status of our society at stake, and has four prevalent positions: 1. Libertarian...

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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

by Scott Horton

Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...

Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

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