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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Chasing Ghosts Dispatch 006: The Carrier Reality: Dead on Arrival
Stop the madness. Stop deploying carriers Stop building them. Just stop. I won’t be getting Christmas cards this year from the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition I am not alone in these notions and the late Captain Wayne Hughes did yeoman’s work on these ideas...
No Crickets for Cricket!
The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, has been plagued by a self-inflicted and festering wound for about a week now. An excerpt from her soon-to-be released memoir, aptly and prophetically entitled No Going Back, has transformed the governor from a Republican...
Richman and Woods
Tom Woods and I discuss alleged antisemitism on U.S. college campuses:
Creative Control and Private Property
Private property isn’t about selfishness so much as it’s about creative control. Someone might want to have their own business, not because they’re greedy, but because they have a vision of how they want things to go that won’t be realized if everyone else gets a say...
RIP, British Army 1415 – 2024
John Cleese and the Monty Python troop were seers in the 1970s. I am fond of saying the British win all their military victories in spite of their best efforts. The IED virus is destroying the institution. The British Army is reducing security checks in pursuit of...
Republicans: Israel Not Just First, But Before the First Amendment
No matter how bad either side gets the other side can only try to outdo them. The Post: On Wednesday, they passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which its advocates said would empower the federal government to crack down on anti-Israel protests on campuses by...
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