Scott interviews Gareth Porter about his recent article for the American Conservative about why Iran's possible role in the recent Saudi oil field attacks is beside the point. Porter thinks it's pretty likely that Iran was behind the attacks, probably as a...
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9/20/19 Grant F. Smith on Virginia’s Taxpayer-Funded Israel Lobby
by Scott Horton | Sep 22, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith lays out the astonishing corruption taking place between state governments and big business in cahoots with foreign lobbies across the U.S. He focuses on two large companies in Virginia that are tied to the Israel lobby, whose massive coffers allow them to...
9/20/19 Mike Swanson on the Next Big Bubble
by Scott Horton | Sep 22, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Mike Swanson is back with his forecast for the stock market and the next recession. Swanson thinks that the next crash could begin to set in motion an unravelling of the whole bubble of the dollar system itself, which might lead to the type of stagflation we saw in...
9/19/19 Ted Galen Carpenter on the Destruction of Libya and Ending NATO
by Scott Horton | Sep 22, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Carpenter's new book explains why NATO is both obsolete and dangerous for world peace. Its obsolescence is clear: NATO was founded as an alliance against the Soviet Union, which hasn't existed for thirty years. It's dangerous because continued NATO expansion into...
9/19/19 Yossi Gurvitz on Netanyahu’s Political Future
by Scott Horton | Sep 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Yossi Gurvitz about the Knesset election in Israel, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands to lose his position to Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel's Blue and White party. Gurvitz explains some of the reasons Netanyahu's tenure has been so...
9/14/19 Robert Naiman on How Congress Could Stop the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 17, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Robert Naiman explains why the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which Scott calls the worst thing the U.S. is doing right now, is unjust and unconstitutional. President Obama started to support the Saudis in their campaign during his second term, supposedly as a favor in...
9/13/19 Kelley B. Vlahos on the FBI and America’s ‘Dr. Death’
by Scott Horton | Sep 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Kelley B. Vlahos tells Scott about two of her recent American Conservative articles, one about the FBI's investigation of antiwar.com on spurious grounds following the 9/11 attacks, and the other a review of the new book, Poisoner in Chief by Stephen Kinzer. The book...
9/13/19 Ryan McMaken on America’s ‘Underfunded’ Trillion-Dollar Military
by Scott Horton | Sep 14, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Ryan McMaken about the true costs of America's "national security" state, both in dollars and in secondary effects on the daily lives of Americans. Even though the official number is quite a bit lower, McMaken has estimated the true cost of the U.S....
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History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
History and Conflict
"We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long since dead and by searching the archives for pretexts for new conflicts. We do not have to revenge crimes committed centuries ago by...
Around Us the World dies in hate (poem thing) -Anti-War Blog
In the time that the smoke ate the sun, Poison that blinded my eyes washed by tears, Tears that fall from fear because we shall never have years, Maybe days or if so lucky weeks. The sirens yawn more than we can sleep, The birds have left though the sky is...
Four Star Admiral Slams Body Parts in the Cash Register
ADM Robert Burke arrested for corruption. This is on the heels of the Fat Leonard scandal. This is the tip of the iceberg in corruption. And remember this four star admiral retired with an estimated annual pension of approx 200k. 200,000 dollars a year. "Instead, the...
Wayback Snapshot: Japanese Invasion on American Soil
Yes, American soil has been invaded and occupied in the twentieth century. "In June 1942, the United States launched its first offensive in the Pacific, the Aleutian Campaign. From June 1942 to May 1943 Japan held the Island of Attu. The Battle of Attu took place May...
The US is the World Leader with No Pier
Yet another existential chaos avalanche in American foreign policy. The pier took two months and $350m to build, lasted 12 days, and delivered less than 60 trucks' worth of food (most of which was stolen after it reached Gaza) before it broke and had to be towed away...
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