Daniel Lazare talks about the grave danger facing the U.S. military of coronavirus sweeping through environments like infantry barracks, submarines, and aircraft carries with almost no possibility for social distancing and quarantine. Already the spread of the virus...
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4/10/20 Tommy Salmons on Life as a Trucker During Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Apr 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Tommy Salmons about what life is like for truck drivers these days. Salmons describes dealing with longer hours, different routes and products, deserted truck stops and empty roads. Scott reminds everyone just how important it is that people like...
4/10/20 Christine Ahn on the Implications of Coronavirus on Peace in Korea
by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Christine Ahn talks about U.S. relations with North Korea in light of the global coronavirus outbreak. President Trump made what in Ahn's mind was a very good move when he offered to help North Korea in any way he can a few weeks ago. Some members of his...
4/10/20 David Stockman on Coronavirus Hysteria and the Destruction of the US Economy
by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
David Stockman pulls back the curtain on congress' recent multi-trillion dollar bailout package, which, although billed as emergency aid for individuals actually allocates most of the money to various special interests on both sides of the aisle, including millions...
4/3/20 Jason Ditz on Iraq, Yemen, and Venezuela
by Scott Horton | Apr 7, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz talks about escalating tensions in Iraq, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and the murmurings of another attempt by the U.S. to put Juan Guaido in power in Venezuela. Scott and Ditz are stunned that America keeps making the same foreign policy...
4/3/20 Doug Bandow on the Fake North Korean Threat and America’s Role in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Apr 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Doug Bandow about his recent article for the National Interest, which discusses the effects of the coronavirus on U.S. relations with North Korea. Bandow explains how after years of hand-wringing over the imminent threat posed by Kim Jong-un's...
3/27/20 Hassan El-Tayyab on America’s Ongoing Genocide in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Hassan El-Tayyab talks to Scott about the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen, where the U.S. continues to help Saudi Arabia wage an aggressive war against the Middle East's poorest country. Scott reminds us that President Trump could end the war with a single phone...
3/27/20 Andrew Bacevich: Judgement Day for the National Security State
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Andrew Bacevich about the ways U.S. military spending over the last few decades has indebted our country and will continue to impoverish future generations. The mistakes go back to America's squandering of its Cold War peace dividend in the early 1990s,...
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Sig P320/M17/18: MILSPEC is Overrated
A negligent discharge (ND) in a weapon is when the operator strokes the trigger that results in the firing of the weapon. In my time, the lion's share of these are NDs but actual mechanical (unintentional, accidental or "uncommanded") discharges were rare and then the...
Merrick Garland Should Start His Crusade Against White Supremacists By Re-Opening the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing Case
Given the recent stories about Merrick Garland’s experience at the helm of the Oklahoma City bombing prosecution and his own comments about prosecuting white supremacists should he be made Attorney General, I have some questions about Garland’s handling of the OKC...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part II)
In Part I, I discussed and critiqued an overview of the new efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal. Here, we'll chat (again) about the Sentinel which is the improved replacement for the aging Minuteman III ICBM and it is already in trouble with the schedule sliding...
Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part I)
The United States is on track to spend the equivalent of more than two Manhattan projects per year in one of the most expensive nuclear arms races in history. The US has not done a recorded air breathing nuclear detonation since 1992 (the last US test, Julin-Divider,...
Israel’s Criminal Assault on Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: ‘Israel killed my grandmother!’
Israel has twice assaulted the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, leaving behind horrifying death and destruction, and no evidence of a Hamas headquarters.
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