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...
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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...
10/9/20 Jacob Sullum: The Case Against Joe Biden
by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Reason Magazine's Jacob Sullum discusses the case against Joe Biden, including his record on crime, the war in Iraq and the surveillance state. Sullum focuses on Biden's history as a "tough on crime" democrat, explaining the ways Biden worked closely with senate...
10/2/20 Andy Worthington on His Assange Extradition Hearing Testimony
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Andy Worthington about his testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Worthington reminds us how important the revelations in Chelsea Manning's Guantanamo Files leak were, stressing just how much harm has been done to the dozens of men held,...
10/2/20 Danny Sjursen on the Latest Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen explains the complicated situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, a piece of Azerbaijani territory that has been under de facto Armenian control since the 1990s. Nagorno-Karabakh is the result of Stalin's territorial divisions, which very often failed to conform...
10/2/20 Jeffrey Kaye: Proof of American Biological Warfare in Korea
by Scott Horton | Oct 4, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Jeffrey Kaye about his bombshell report on U.S. war crimes during the Korean War. For decades, Kaye says, the narrative advanced by America and the UN has been that although Japan, our ally, is known to have conducted experiments in chemical and...
10/2/20 Nicolas Davies on America’s Culpability for the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Nicolas Davies about America's continuing role in the war in Yemen. Although the Trump administration has ended some of the more direct involvement like mid-air refueling of Saudi bombers, Saudi Arabia still very much relies on our help to wage its war...
10/2/20 Patrick Cockburn on his Testimony in the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Oct 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews the great Patrick Cockburn about his written testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Cockburn argued, as have many other witnesses for the defense, that Assange's activities with WikiLeaks amount to the very best kind of journalism: the...
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What a strange fetish it all is…
Is it a fetish? There are some fascinating memes and clips doing the rounds of Trump lately. The populist appeal has become silly. The trouble is that some supposedly serious people are unironically aroused by it all. Then again, maybe it’s just for the LOLs? Grown...
Tariffs Violate Freedom
Debate goes on over who suffers from U.S. tariffs. Biden and Trump, for example, think U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods hurt China, not Americans. This is nonsense. Even if they hurt Chinese producers (who can sell their goods elsewhere), the tariffs still hurt...
If Pigs Could Fly: The F35 Continues to Miss the Mark
The Pentagon will continue to pay Bugatti prices for Yugos until the morale improves. Software upgrades have haunted this flying circus since its "full operational status" was fabricated years ago. The combination of a severely Sovietized acquisition system married to...
The Empire Strikes Back: Soldiering and Brain Injury
Whatever empires do abroad eventually comes home. Yet another unintended consequences come home in a tidal wave. This is personal; I was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury in 2019. I spent nearly a quarter century in the US military. I know there's a connection....
US Surface Navy is No Longer a Global Force
The US Navy may credibly dominate the Atlantic but the Pacific Ocean is no longer an exclusive US naval domination calculus. The Arctic is still dominated by the Russians and will remain so. The US Navy's ability to build functioning surface ships is compromised...
The Family Will Never Get Over It – Anti-War Blog
The Middle East Eye reports of desperate screams as Muhammad Bhar, a 24-year old Palestinian man with down syndrome was attacked by Israelil military dogs. The IDF soldiers watched on as the animals mauled the helpless Muhammad. He was then left to die from his...
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