The Hill: A large majority of voters — 84 percent — are concerned about the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, according to a Hill-HarrisX poll released on Monday. That's more than those who expressed concern over other foreign policy issues, including North...
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10/25/19 Kieren McCarthy on the FBI’s National Security Surveillance Lies
by Scott Horton | Oct 28, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Kieren McCarthy discusses the recent revelation that the FBI has access to the NSA's national security database, and has queried it tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of times. The database, gathered under special surveillance powers by the NSA and CIA, is not...
10/25/19 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Unconstitutional Investigative Powers
by Scott Horton | Oct 27, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Aaronson discusses some of the FBI's egregious abuses of its power over American citizens, most recently brought to light by their use of an informant to investigate a law-abiding militia group in California for years. Although the FBI claims to be concerned...
This Weekend, the 26th and 27th, I’ll Be At The Texas Book Festival
by Scott Horton | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog
You know, down at the Texas state capital in Austin. Pretty sure I'll be right on Lavaca Street between 11th and 12th. I should have copies of all the Libertarian Institute books, Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and The Great Ron Paul: The Scott...
10/21/19 Charles Glass on Syria, Turkey, Iran, and the Kurds
by Scott Horton | Oct 22, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Charles Glass about America's long involvement in Syria, starting with the Obama administration's support for the insurgent side in the country's civil war in 2011. This move, made partly with the intent to limit the influence of Iran and Russia in...
10/18/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Winding Down of the War in Syria
by Scott Horton | Oct 21, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Patrick Cockburn about the situation with the Kurds in Syria. Scott calls Syria a win-win-win-win: The Kurds have negotiated a deal with Assad that will give them some autonomy and protection from Turkey, Turkey gets a roughly 30-mile border buffer with...
10/18/19 Peter Van Buren on the Impeachment Derangement in Washington
by Scott Horton | Oct 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Peter Van Buren about his recent article in The American Conservative, "Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus." Van Buren argues that whatever President Trump's real crimes might be—most notably continuing to help the Saudis...
10/18/19 Doug Bandow on Avoiding Another Cold War
by Scott Horton | Oct 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow comes back on the show to explain the importance of America taking a backseat with Ukraine, particularly with respect to its dispute with Russia over Crimea. Bandow reminds us that Crimea has historically always been a part of Russia, and that it was...
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No Longer Born to Kill – Anti-War Blog
Recently Amazon removed the “Born to Kill,” from Jokers helmet for the film Full Metal Jacket. The words sit alongside the peace emblem on his steel helmet and makes for an iconic film poster. So it once did. The words perhaps too violent for modern audiences...
Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems
There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has...
Up in Smoke: The Other Space Race Continues
A comprehensive ban on all nuclear testing occurred in the 1990s. The Soviet Union's last nuclear test took place on 24 October 1990; the United Kingdom's on 26 November 1991 and the United States' on 23 September 1992. Advances in the ICBM arena have continued apace...
Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
New Book Is A Must Read For Iraq War 2 Enthusiasts
Iraq War 2 is ancient history, like Athens’ defeat at Aegospotami or the NATO-Russia Founding Act. But for some of us, it seems like only yesterday we were being lied into one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the Western imperial order. There’s a new book...
It’s a Crazy World
What's to be said about people who grieve over the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza at the hands of the U.S.-backed Israeli military while simultaneously cheering the Mengele-style wrecking of children's lives in America and elsewhere at the hands of...
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