Scott interviews Sheldon Richman about his new book, a collection of essays on the history of Israel and Palestine. He explains that almost everything we've heard about the official narrative of the founding of Israel is wrong—far from a country of peaceful Jews...
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9/23/19 Nasser Arrabyee with the Latest on the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee comes back for an update on the war in Yemen. Saudi forces continue to bomb Yemeni cities, and American neocons continue to insist that the war is being justly prosecuted against the Iran-backed Houthis. Arrabyee says these claims of Iranian support...
9/23/19 Hannah Cox: the Death Penalty is Just Another Failed Big Government Program
by Scott Horton | Sep 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Hannah Cox, from Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, who explains why anyone who favors smaller government should oppose the death penalty. Among the problems she cites: one in nine death penalty convicts are later outright exonerated,...
9/23/19 David Stockman on the Demonization of Iran
by Scott Horton | Sep 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
David Stockman talks about the recent drone strike on a Saudi Arabian oil facility and America's sanctions war in Iran. For some reason, everything in the Middle East seems to be about Iran, as far as American neocons are concerned. They will do anything to turn a...
9/20/19 Max Blumenthal on Civilian Life in Syria and the US Sanctions on Iran
by Scott Horton | Sep 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Max Blumenthal recounts his recent trip to Syria, where he witnessed firsthand the destruction wrought by the proxy war fought there with the support of the U.S. To this day, willingness to negotiate with the Assad regime makes you a pariah in Washington, as we've...
9/20/19 Shireen Al-Adeimi on Samantha Power’s Revisionist Yemen History
by Scott Horton | Sep 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Shireen Al-Adeimi discusses the U.S. role in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, particularly that of Obama administration official Samantha Power. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of civilians have died from starvation and deprivation during the war in Yemen, many of them...
9/20/19 Christine Ahn on a Chance for Peace With North Korea
by Scott Horton | Sep 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Christine Ahn joins the show for an update on the Korean peace process, now that John Bolton is out of the Trump administration. She thinks Bolton was a major obstacle to Korean unification, and that now Trump might go along with the negotiations between the North and...
9/20/19 Catherine L. Besteman on America’s Shadow War in Somalia
by Scott Horton | Sep 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Catherine Besteman joins the show to share some of her research about America's covert proxy war in Somalia. American military intervention in Somalia goes back at least as far as the Bush administration's support for Ethiopia in its invasion of the country in 2006,...
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Now They Figure It Out…
Too little and too late and once the smaller companies get Pentagon contracts, they will be destroyed in the Pentagon's Soviet acquisition system. “While the Armament Directorate remains committed to our highly-capable legacy products, we have become convinced that...
Language, Race, and Man
“Man belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself.” --Ernest Renan
The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse
Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
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