Daniel Lazare discusses the problems facing Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is dealing with a troubled economy, declining political popularity at home, and failing military excursions abroad. Lazare and Scott also talk about the failure of President Trump to...
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2/19/20 Trita Parsi on Making a Restrained Foreign Policy the Status Quo
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Trita Parsi about an event being hosted next week by Parsi's organization, the Quincy Institute, which will pit advocates of a restrained foreign policy against war hawks in a series of panel discussions. The event is Wednesday, February 26 in...
2/17/20 Gareth Porter on the History of the Iran Crisis
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter comes on the show to promote his new book, The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War, cowritten with John Kiriakou. Porter and Scott recap the entire modern history of U.S. relations with Iran, focusing on the inflated...
2/14/20 Cliff Maloney on the Defend the Guard Movement
by Scott Horton | Feb 18, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Cliff Maloney of Young Americans for Liberty joins the show to talk about the "Defend the Guard" movement popping up in state legislatures around the country. The legislation on which the movement is based calls for an end to the calling up of states' national guard...
2/7/20 Danny Sjursen on America’s Coming Battle for Eurasia
by Scott Horton | Feb 12, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen is back for part two of his conversation with Scott about America's foreign policy disasters, this time focusing on what Sjursen calls "the coming battle for Eurasia." According to an old theory of geopolitics, the power that controls central...
2/7/20 Danny Sjursen on Middle East Politics and the Missing Antiwar Left
by Scott Horton | Feb 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the many catastrophic failures of American foreign policy, and most recently the proposed plan to carve out an autonomous Sunni region in western Iraq, which the U.S. could use to help control the Middle East and prevent Iranian...
2/7/20 Suadad al-Salhy on the Insane Plan to Divide Iraq in Two
by Scott Horton | Feb 9, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Suadad al-Salhy about her recent piece on the proposed U.S. plan to create an autonomous Sunni state in western Iraq. This would theoretically allow the U.S. to continue to exert control in the country, preventing the dreaded "land bridge" connecting...
2/7/20 Peter Van Buren on Impeachment, Iowa, and Chelsea Manning
by Scott Horton | Feb 7, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about impeachment and the fiasco at the Iowa Caucuses, and what they mean for the Democrats' political prospects heading into the election. Van Buren says that although President Trump's behavior with respect to Ukraine seems a little...
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A War of Unyielding Horror
That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.
Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom
The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...
More on Immigration and Public Property
Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...
Thomas Szasz: Champion of Freedom
Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system...
Iran Attack Liveblog (PHOTOS/VIDEOS)
My live coverage of Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel Saturday night, as it happened. Obviously much of this information has either been confirmed, disproven or become obsolete by now, but the thread is full of interesting details that didn't make it into my...
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