Scott interviews Aaron Maté about his testimony to the UN Security Council regarding the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in 2018. After the Trump administration authorized retaliatory bombing in response to the incident, the OPCW sent investigators to...
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10/16/20 Andrew Cockburn on the Dangerous and Unconstitutional Powers of Modern Presidents
by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Andrew Cockburn about the steady growth of unconstitutional powers that the federal government—and the president in particular—can summon during "emergencies." Some of these powers are well-known, like extraordinary law enforcement and surveillance...
10/15/20 Matt Agorist on Breonna Taylor and American Police Abuse
by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Matt Agorist about some recent cases of unlawful police killings and police abuse in this country, both the high-profile incidents and the ones that escape mainstream notice. Agorist reminds us of the details of the Breonna Taylor case, in which police...
10/9/20 Charles Glass on the Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange
by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Charles Glass about Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Glass has focused on Assange's treatment at the hands of the U.S. and British governments and their allies, including his subjection to solitary confinement, the denial of medical treatment...
10/9/20 Ray McGovern on the Tireless Truthers Still Pushing ‘Russiagate’
by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern discusses the lasting impact of the "Russiagate" conspiracy, which Democrats have continued to push throughout President Trump's entire first term. McGovern reminds us that according to recorded testimony released only this year, CrowdStrike (the...
10/9/20 William Smith: How Empire is Destroying the American Republic
by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to William Smith about the threat to republican government posed by America's growing world empire. The founders of this country, Smith explains, knew that perpetual war would lead to the uncontrolled growth of government power, and that meddling in...
10/9/20 Harry Kazianis on Peace with North Korea
by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Harry Kazianis about America's relationship with North Korea. Kazianis argues past much of the noise surrounding the effort to get North Korea to denuclearize, proposing instead that America actually could tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea, just like...
10/9/20 Matt Welch: The Case Against Donald Trump
by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Reason Magazine's Matt Welch follows up on Scott's Jacob Sullum interview with his own case against Donald Trump. The clearest point to hit Trump on, says Welch, is probably his complete abandonment of curtailing government spending, as he has presided over the...
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Labor as Commodity
For the individual actor, "as for everyone, other people’s labor as offered for sale on the market is nothing but a factor of production. Man deals with other people’s labor in the same way that he deals with all scarce material factors of production. He appraises it...
WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast Debuts Soon
I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in...
Failing Upward: PR Stunt Backfires
The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos...
Why We Need to End the Federal Reserve System
A new short documentary from the Mises Institute explains how the Federal Reserve system enslaves us all.
The Shame of Veterans Day
A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the...
Some Things Never Change
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” --John Philpot Curran, Irish statesman, 1790
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