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8/21/20 Danny Sjursen Debunks the Biggest Myths About Lebanon

by Scott Horton | Aug 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about Lebanon, which has been in the news recently after a disastrous, and apparently accidental, explosion left hundreds dead there. Today Sjursen discusses Lebanon's past, a history that has seen it become a battleground for many proxy...

8/21/20 Jordan Smith on the Pseudoscience Putting Americans Behind Bars

by Scott Horton | Aug 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Jordan Smith discusses her research into the "BlueLeaks" archive of the leaked personal data of hundreds of thousands of cops and their cases. Smith was looking for evidence of unscientific techniques that the police use to elicit confessions and get convictions—and...

8/14/20 Branko Marcetic on Kamala Harris’ Powerful Pro-War Backers

by Scott Horton | Aug 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Branko Marcetic about Kamala Harris' dismal foreign policy. Although she's frequently portrayed as a progressive leftist, when it comes to foreign policy, says Marcetic, her foreign policy is right in line with the Clinton-Bush-Obama establishment...

8/14/20 Grant Smith on the Unscrupulous Dealings of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board

by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Grant Smith joins the show for another look at the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, a government entity associated with the state of Virginia that allocates taxpayer money to Israeli companies starting operations in the U.S. The projects, Smith explains, aren't viable...

8/14/20 Dan McAdams on America’s Latest Attempted Color Revolution

by Scott Horton | Aug 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Dan McAdams about the precarious situation in Belarus, where some western agitators are seeking to use the country's recent presidential elections as an excuse to foment and support a revolution. McAdams reminds us that although Belarus' president,...

8/14/20 Max Blumenthal on the Media’s Favorite Hong Kong Protest Hoaxer

by Scott Horton | Aug 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Max Blumenthal discusses the case of Kong Tsung-gan, an "expert source" on the ground in Hong Kong, who has been quoted by many American media outlets in recent months as an authority on the separatist movement there. The problem? Kong is actually an American named...

8/10/20 Dan McKnight on Liz Cheney’s Toxic Association With the Republican Party

by Scott Horton | Aug 13, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Dan McKnight discusses recent efforts by his organization, BringOurTroopsHome.US, to get Republicans in congress to distance themselves from Liz Cheney. Cheney wields enormous influence in congress, both because of her last name and because she supports the reelection...

8/7/20 Michael Klare on War in the Middle East and the Politics of Oil

by Scott Horton | Aug 10, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Michael Klare about the incentives behind America's involvement in wars in the Middle East. One common narrative says that Bush invaded Iraq simply because America needed the oil—the truth, says Klare, is somewhat more complicated. He explains that...

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The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army

It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...

Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things

Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...

Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century

USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...

Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide

I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.

Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus

Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...

Stop the Madness: Existential Martial Incompetence

Jen Psaki’s quote from the podium from 8/31/2021 per the Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021 during an Offal Office press briefer to the Coprophile Media: “I don’t think anyone assessed that they [the Afghan government & forces] would collapse as quickly as they...