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FPF #241 – Ending the Syrian Civil War

by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 3, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #241, I discuss the US role in continuing the Syrian Civil War. David Ignatius of the Washington Post reports that a Trump official said the US policy is to draw Syria and Russia into a quagmire in Idlib. Ignatius argues for the US to do more to assist the...

7/11/2018 Jason Ditz on Syrian Conflict

by Scott Horton | Jul 16, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses the Syrian conflict and what the current status of the fighting is between the Syrian Army and allied Russians, the rebels, and ISIS. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Zen Cash; The War...

News Roundup 7/5/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 5, 2018 | News Roundup

Trump has repeatedly pushed for the US to invade Venezuela. [Link] North and South Korea play a basketball friendly. [Link] War hawks continue to push Iranian regime change by using the terrorist group MEK. [Link] Syrian rebels continue to lose towns in southwest...

6/29/18 Sharmine Narwani on Al Qaeda Affiliates Fighting With US Rebels in Syria's South

by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Sharmine Narwani, writer and journalist, is interviewed on her article for The American Conservative Magazine, "Are al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside U.S. Rebels in Syria’s South?". The history of the United State's support for rebels in Syria is explored, as...

Ron Paul and Dan McAdams: 'Game Over'? US Cuts Rebels Loose in Southwest Syria

by Scott Horton | Jun 25, 2018 | Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A5zwTj4_-c

Responding to WaPo Spin on Syria

by Will Porter | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog

What follows is a response to a July 26 article published at the Washington Post entitled “Why is the Trump Administration Empowering al-Qaeda in Syria?” penned by columnist Marc Thiessen. The article—while its headline sounds like something many non-interventionists...

6/25/17 Gareth Porter on how Obama’s CIA backed al Qaeda in Syria

by Scott Horton | Jun 25, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter returns to discuss his important new article, "How the US Armed Terrorists in Syria," the evidence, former-CIA Director Petraeus pushed the scheme to arm rebels in Syria, leading to the rise of Islamic State and the current war there.

6/14/17 Anastasia Moloney on FARC’s disarmament and its implications for Columbia

by Scott Horton | Jun 14, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Anastasia Moloney, reporter for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on her article “As Columbia’s FARC Disarmed, Rebels Enlisted to Fight Deforestation”. Moloney talks about the ceasefire in the FARC rebellion by peaceful resolution, and the ongoing disarmament of FARC....

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Winter Reading

Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it;...

A Warhead That Could: The Extinction Event for Exquisite Military Platforms

Chalk up another crafty Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) to the Russian military. I am hoping the West has noticed the game changer that a conventional warhead on hyper-sonic IRBMs and ICBMs has changed the balance of power in near peer and peer combat for the...

Economics Is about Individual Choice

"The light which the economic theorist can throw on an economic process, or on the outcome of such a process, is viewed as deriving from his ability to relate back the process to the individual acts of choice of which the process is made up. Through the theorist’s...

New WarNotes Podcast Episode is Live Monday 16 December 2024

Ep 005 "Fixing Fight Club: 21st Century Nuclear Renaissance" In this episode, a complete reassessment of American nuclear weapons has to be done. In the future near-peer and peer fight, nuclear weapons will be an option in the 21st century and no one can predict how...

How Far We’ve Come

"The conditions under which modern man of the capitalist West must act are different from those under which his primitive ancestors lived and acted. As a result of the providential care of our forebears we have at our disposal an ample stock of intermediate products...

The Vulnerable Capitalist

"Popular literature attributes enormous 'power' to the capitalist and considers his owning a mass of capital goods as of enormous significance, giving him a great advantage over other people in the economy. We see, however, that this is far from the case; indeed, the...

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