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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Broken: The American Shipbuilding Crisis
USS The Sullivans sinking in New York in 2022. Over the decades, the destroyers have fallen into various states of disrepair. In April 2022, The Sullivans suffered a hull breach and partially sank at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo,...
Surprise! Ukrainian Aid is Mismanaged
One discovers that war-making by the West after WWII around the world started to see a trend that Smedley Butler would knowingly nod at as the sophisticated money-laundering complex to provide weapons and assistance in hundreds of conflicts.The tracking and auditing...
“Breed More” They Demand
“Breed! Have more babies!” demands the technocrats on social media, the conservatives even, the religious zealots, even some socialists and naturally the incels who want the State to mandate wives. Apparently humanity needs to constantly swell, to grow in it’s...
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Stealth Technology is Sexy and Useless
On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav Army unit (3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade, which was under the leadership of Colonel Zoltán Dani) shot down an F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft of the United States Air Force...
High on State Power: The Tragic Death of Matthew Perry and the Evil of the War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAsC_MEAxY&list=PLKjJE86mQRtsUs-GDEnmtxSyJmf1ueF_5&index=1&t=1s On Oct. 28, 2023, beloved actor Matthew Perry was found dead in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. Cause of death was ruled “acute effects of ketamine” and...
Sig P320/M17/18: MILSPEC is Overrated
A negligent discharge (ND) in a weapon is when the operator strokes the trigger that results in the firing of the weapon. In my time, the lion's share of these are NDs but actual mechanical (unintentional, accidental or "uncommanded") discharges were rare and then the...
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