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5/18/20 Trevor Timm on FISA, the Patriot Act, Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assange

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

Scott interviews Trevor Timm about a recent U.S. senate vote that would grant the government access to Americans' browser history without a warrant. This shameful vote is surprising to those who thought that even Washington insiders would have stood up to a civil...

5/15/20 John Kiriakou on What Could Have Prevented 9/11

by Scott Horton | May 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

John Kiriakou discusses his time at the CIA during the lead up to and aftermath of 9/11, given the recent revelations about the identity of a Saudi official connected with the attack. This is the first time the American people have seen any concrete evidence tying the...

5/15/20 Pete Quinones on the Killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor

by Scott Horton | May 18, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Pete Quinones discusses the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the response from Americans on both sides of the political aisle. In a recent article at the Libertarian Institute, he discusses the incident from the perspective of the gun-owning community, arguing that...

5/15/20 Ray McGovern on the Crumbling ‘Russiagate’ Narrative

by Scott Horton | May 18, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Ray McGovern reflects on the demise of "Russiagate," now that two central pieces of the narrative have fallen apart. The first comes from newly-released transcripts of the House Intelligence Committee's 2017 interview with a senior member of Crowdstrike, the firm that...

5/15/20 Danny Sjursen on America’s Long Involvement in Somalia

by Scott Horton | May 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Danny Sjursen talks about America's long history of intervention in Somalia, beginning after World War II, continuing during the Cold War, and persisting today through the War on Terror. Too often, he says, the mainstream narrative around U.S. interventions starts...

5/8/20 Arielle Zionts on the Death of Andrea Circle Bear

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

Scott interviews reporter Arielle Zionts about her recent story about a pregnant South Dakota woman who died of COVID-19 in federal prison. Andrea Circle Bear, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, was charged under an obscure law in connection with a drug sale...

5/1/20 Aaron Maté on the Latest OPCW Scandal

by Scott Horton | May 4, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Aaron Maté on a new report by a group of OPCW whistleblowers alleging more misconduct from the organization. Just like in the famous case at Douma, where scant findings were used to justify retributive action against the Assad government while...

5/1/20 Mike Swanson on the Coronavirus Economy

by Scott Horton | May 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Mike Swanson discusses all the money the U.S. government has pumped into the economy in order to combat the economic effects of the coronavirus, and what effects these stimulus measures are likely to have. Even though an huge increase in the money supply would...

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Blaming Freedom

Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...

Insurrection of the Mind.

Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...

They Know the Truth

Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...

Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov

I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...

NZ Ocean Floor Survey Naval Vessel Runs Aground Off Samoa

That New Zealand naval ship that ran aground, foundered, caught fire and capsized with the DEI Captain commanding was an ocean survey and mapping ship. HMNZS Manawanui was a dive and hydrographic vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). It was one of five vessels...

The Carrier as Reef Complex: World’s Most Expensive Fish Apartments

*** I have returned from a long sojourn with my wife to Croatia and will be writing more regularly and trying to address issues arising more contemporaneously than the previous month. We were delayed in returning by Hurricane Milton but finally managed to get home:...