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4/20/18 Dennis Halliday on the deaths of Iraqi children due to American sanctions in the ’90s

by Scott Horton | Apr 20, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Former U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Dennis Halliday, who resigned over the Iraq sanctions in 1998, joins Scott to discuss Madeleine Albright's new book and the true figures of the total deaths of Iraqi children due to the U.N. sanctions. Halliday describes...

4/20/18 Dennis Halliday on the deaths of Iraqi children due to American sanctions in the '90s

by Scott Horton | Apr 20, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

4/17/18 Daniel Lazare on Saudi Arabia’s Resource Curse

by Scott Horton | Apr 17, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Journalist and author Daniel Lazare returns to the show to discuss the latest issues facing Saudi Arabia and his latest article for The American Conservative, "Will the Saudi Kingdom Collapse Under the Resource Curse?" Lazare compares the Saudi Arabian kingdom to 16th...

4/17/18 Daniel Lazare on Saudi Arabia's Resource Curse

by Scott Horton | Apr 17, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Corrected: Gina Haspel Did Not Torture Zubaydah, Apparently

by Scott Horton | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog

Not only did the new CIA Director personally oversee the torture of Abu Zubaydah, she did so in order to lie you and your mom into supporting the aggressive war against Iraq. From David Rose’s report "Tortured Reasoning": Some of what he did say was leaked by the...

The Antiwar Comic: A Country of Something

by Tony DiGerolamo | Feb 10, 2018 | Blog

This is a common theme in this comic, but it rarely seems to resonate outside Libertarian circles. You know the story... For more comics visit The Webcomic Factory.

Who’s That You Called Dangerous, President Trump?

by Thomas L. Knapp | Jul 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

On July 6, CNN reports, “President Donald Trump chided North Korea for its recent missile tests, saying it is ‘behaving in a very very dangerous manner.'” Particularly motivating Trump’s expression of angst was this week’s test of the Hwasong-14, which the...

Who's That You Called Dangerous, President Trump?

by Thomas L. Knapp | Jul 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

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Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe

The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...

The Business of America: War, War, War!

Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...

Mises on Wages under Capitalism

"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...

Anti-War Blog – Do They Really Know It’s Christmas?

Every year as the end of December crawls near, the spirit of Christmas grips those sometimes Christians, even atheists join in and celebrate it as a cultural habit and the true believers further confirm their faith. The spirit of celebration is one of joy, community,...

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...