Nasser Arrabyee comes on the show for an update about Yemen. There seems to be some promise of a real peace negotiation, Arrabyee says, though it's hard to get both sides to see eye to eye on the realities of the situation. The Houthis, as Arrabyee explains, feel they...
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6/24/21 Ben Suitt on the Alarming Suicide Rate Among Post-9/11 War Vets
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ben Suitt about his work about veteran suicides for Brown University's Cost of War Project. Suitt conservatively estimates that about 30,000 veterans of America's terror wars have taken their own lives, a truly astonishing number. This side of modern...
6/24/21 Ted Carpenter on the Bloody Legacy of America’s Drug War
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Carpenter discusses the harmful effects of drug prohibition in America, both at home and abroad. First of all, he points out, prohibition simply doesn't work. We learned this during alcohol prohibition, when consumption remained high but prices and violence...
6/23/21 Doug Bandow on America’s Dangerous Alliance with Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Doug Bandow about the U.S. relationship to Ukraine, perhaps the perfect case study in America's foreign policy arrogance. Ukraine, of course, has very little direct strategic relevance to daily life in America—and yet the U.S. government considers...
6/22/21 William Hartung on the Pork Barrel Politics Behind America’s H-Bomb Policy
by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to William Hartung about America's nuclear policy and the shocking profit motives that end up determining it. Hartung draws particular attention to land-based ICBMs, which, he explains, aren't nearly as effective, since they're fixed in one place, and for...
6/22/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s New Coalition Government
by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. Naftali Bennett has just taken over as Israel's prime minister, following Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to successfully form a coalition government. Bennett, explains Barkin, is quite far on the right, yet he and...
6/17/21 Ray McGovern: Baby Steps at the Biden-Putin Summit
by Scott Horton | Jun 20, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ray McGovern about the Biden-Putin summit. It was not exactly a groundbreaking meeting, says McGovern, though Biden and Putin did agree on at least one crucial point: America and Russia must never fight a nuclear war, since the results would be beyond...
6/10/21 Ray McGovern on the Biden-Putin Summit
by Scott Horton | Jun 13, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern is back to talk about America's relationship with Russia. President Biden met with Putin recently, McGovern explains, which is good for Biden's stance toward Russia, and, of course, for world peace. War with Russia is sometimes held out as an actual...
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Fixing Fight Club: A Missive to DOGE
President Trump, SECDEF, Mr. Musk and DOGE, I am the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast. You are about to embark on a dark journey to discover the existential mismanagement and beggared martial imagination of the...
Abolish Antitrust!
"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not 'equal' in their tastes, interests, abilities, or locations. Resources are not distributed “equally” over the earth.16 This inequality...
Police State in Mexico? Thank you Donald Trump!
Timeline / First Term… I will build the wall and Mexico will pay for it! How? I will slap huge tariffs on Mexico if they don’t stop the flow of people and drugs passing through their country and those big beautiful tariffs will cause Mexico to pay for the wall....
Like Farm to Table, Shipyard to Mothballs
USNS Cody USNS Cody (T-EPF-14), Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport, was christened on 25 February 2023 by ship's sponsor Averil D. Spencer, launched at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama on 20 March 2023, and its delivery was accepted by the U.S. Navy on 11...
Trump’s Vision for Gaza: ‘We’ll Own It’ – New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
In this episode, we dive into Donald Trump’s latest remarks on the future of Gaza, his stance on Palestinian displacement, and his renewed "maximum pressure" strategy on Iran. Trump claims the U.S. will "cleanse Gaza" and might even "own it," while Hamas outright...
The DDG(X) Begins the Change Follies
The DDG(X) program will be over-budget, very late and a shadow of its naval architectural ambition. Of course. The US Navy has seemingly abandoned naval gunnery at the 5" level and above and the latest navy build program for a new destroyer is removing the capability....
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