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...
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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...
8/7/20 Brett Wilkins on the False Dichotomy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Scott Horton | Aug 10, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Brett Wilkins discusses the story about Hiroshima and Nagasaki that everyone learned in school: the U.S. was forced to drop the atomic bombs, because the alternative would have meant a ground invasion of Japan that would have cost a million American lives. In reality,...
8/7/20 Kingston Reif on the Growing Nuclear Tensions Between the US, Russia and China
by Scott Horton | Aug 9, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kingston Reif talks about the imminent lapse of the New START treaty, one of the last remaining nuclear safeguard agreements between the U.S. and Russia. Russia has made some moves to renegotiate the treaty, but the Trump administration has refused to do so,...
8/7/20 Tom Woods: The Problems With the Police and How to Fix Them
by Scott Horton | Aug 8, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Tom Woods about his new eBook, which provides a libertarian perspective on some of the national questions being raised these days about the future of policing. Scott and Woods focus in on the war on drugs in particular, which has been the culprit...
8/7/20 Stephen Zunes on Susan Rice’s Pro-War Establishment Credentials
by Scott Horton | Aug 8, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Stephen Zunes about Susan Rice, one of the leading candidates for Joe Biden's VP pick. Rice fits Biden's criteria in that she's a black woman with political experience, but Zunes raises serious concerns about her track record. In particular, Rice turned...
8/3/20 Mark Willacy on SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 6, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Australian journalist Mark Willacy talks to Scott about his investigations into alleged war crimes by Australian special forces units in Afghanistan. Willacy has worked closely with former SAS operative Braden Chapman, the leading figure in blowing the whistle on what...
7/31/20 Ray McGovern on Colin Powell and Mike Pompeo
by Scott Horton | Aug 4, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern joins the show to talk about Colin Powell and Mike Pompeo: two credentialed, respected members of the foreign policy establishment that have both been hugely damaging to American interests. McGovern first responds to the claim that Powell unwaveringly and...
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‘Netanyahu Wants the World to Accuse Israel of Genocide, Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing’
How this for irresponsible political leadership?: Veteran Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston: "He wants the world to accuse Israel of genocide and apartheid, violent occupation and ethnic cleansing" so that Israelis believe "the world hates us, and he is the only one...
Trump: The American Empire Personified
That's why they hate him. He's just saying what they're all thinking, but you're not supposed to do that. Dave DeCamp: Former President Trump said in an interview with Israel Hayom over the weekend that Israel made a “big mistake” by broadcasting images and videos of...
My Favorite Michael Malice Quote
If the government didn’t have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...
Netanyahu as Haman
The fable of Purim ends with the slaughter of over 75,000 non-Jewish Persians by the Jewish Persians after one official's (Haman's) plot to kill the Jews is exposed when the king is alerted by his Jewish wife. That's a mighty big conspiracy! God makes no appearance....
Beware: The Government Is People
Nearly everyone complains about capitalism's defects, or market failures. In fact, those are social failures, not specifically market failures, which show up when many rational individual actions create a social situation that displeases everyone. This means that...
Watch Murray N. Rothbard Celebrate the Fall of Communism
It's great. The Future of Austrian Economics | Murray N. Rothbard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWdUIuID8ag
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