Scott talks to Alan MacLeod about the bizarre and troubling trend in both media and government where Russia is the automatic target of blame for everything these days. Every hack and cyber attack, of course, is automatically ascribed to the Russians, as are more...
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12/22/20 Mark Perry: Lloyd Austin Isn’t Who You Think He Is
by Scott Horton | Dec 24, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Perry talks about General Lloyd Austin, Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense. Austin is a military man through and through, but he isn't your run-of-the-mill war hawk, explains Perry—instead, Austin has shown himself to be a strong advocate for diplomacy and...
12/21/20 Ted Carpenter on the Futility and Cruelty of Washington’s Economic Sanctions
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ted Carpenter about his recent coverage of America's sanctions policies around the world. Carpenter begins by explaining that economic sanctions are both ineffective and inhumane. For one thing, the theory that when a population is pressed hard enough...
12/21/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Plight of the Palestinians
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud discusses a series of recent articles he's written on the status of Israeli-Palestinian relations, and the long history that informs the situation today. It has now become clear, says Baroud, that the once-promised two-state...
12/18/20 Danny Sjursen on Nagorno-Karabakh and the Ethiopian Civil War
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about two prominent conflicts facing the world in 2020. In Nagorno-Karabakh, an uneasy, Russian-brokered peace deal is holding between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but Sjursen worries that this peace won't last forever, as each country still...
12/18/20 Nasser Arrabyee on Yemen’s Desperate Humanitarian Crisis
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee is back with an update on the ongoing war in Yemen. Joe Biden, he says, has said some promising things about ending U.S. support for the Suadi war there, but both Arrabyee and Scott are skeptical that he will follow through at all. Supporters of the...
12/18/20 Tim Shorrock: the Prospects for Peace with North Korea
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2020 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Tim Shorrock analyzes the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula under the upcoming Biden administration. President Trump, he and Scott agree, made some promising moves toward detente between North Korea, South Korea and the United States, shaking up the status...
12/18/20 Doug Bandow on America’s New Cold War with Russia
by Scott Horton | Dec 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow discusses the state of U.S. relations with Russia, an issue of increasing relevance these days as some figures in American government try to leverage Russophobia for political purposes. Bandow reminds us that Russia is virtually no threat to the United...
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The Carrier Narrative is Dying
Carrier skeptics have been hammering away at the anachronistic cargo cult of the aircraft carrier. The Navy has invested a significant amount of political capital and mountains of budget dollars to maintaining a fleet of these allegedly deadly weapons of war that were...
Darryl Cooper on the Holocaust
Cooper is an American hero. Whatever the giant-jawed Zionist propagandists at Reason magazine say, the truth is always the opposite. Subscribe to the MartyrMade podcast here.
Tanks for Nothing: The Era of Manned Armor is Over
The beat goes on. I have made the outrageous claim that the era of the carrier is over and also infer that manned tanks are also way past their expiration date due to the demonstrative lop-sided opportunities in salvo competition that is seeing 7-10 million dollar...
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Does anyone have the CRS or GAO report of the completed F35 OT&E [Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)]? Any documentation will do. They fielded the 1,000th airframe and it has NEVER jumped from initial operational capability (IOC) to...
Carrier Blues: Even the Mainstream is Waking Up
The ice is breaking on the stonewalling of the defense community and external observers to have an honest conversation on the aircraft carrier; they may be getting the message on how indefensible and anachronistic this extraordinarily expensive weapons system is. The...
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