Trita Parsi talks about the possibility of diplomatic talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which he views as a consequence of the Biden administration's somewhat less aggressive stance toward the Middle East. People often allege that American military involvement...
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4/30/21 Tom Collina on the Reckless Plan to Expand America’s Nuclear Arsenal
by Scott Horton | Apr 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Tom Collina about the alarming plan to expand America's nuclear arsenal. The $2 trillion package, Collina explains, would include a large investment in what's known as the "nuclear sponge": a collection of ICBMs in America's heartland designed to draw a...
4/30/21 Aisha Jumaan on US Complicity in Yemen’s Dire Humanitarian Crisis
by Scott Horton | Apr 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Aisha Jumaan discusses the situation in Yemen. Although the Biden administration claimed earlier this year that it would end American support for Saudi "offensive operations" in Yemen, they have recently announced that certain support functions—like providing...
4/30/21 Andy Worthington on the Shameful Human Cost of Joe Biden’s Guantanamo Inertia
by Scott Horton | Apr 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Andy Worthington about Guantanamo Bay, America's secret black site prison, where 40 men are still being held, some of them without ever having been charged with a crime. President Obama famously campaigned on closing Guantanamo, but ultimately was...
4/26/21 Dan Gifford: What Really Happened at Waco and How the Establishment Covered It Up
by Scott Horton | Apr 28, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Dan Gifford, producer of the famous film, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, about the tragedy of the Waco siege, all the government and media lies to cover it up and what really happened behind the scenes. Gifford shares his decades of experience looking...
4/23/21 Gareth Porter on Biden’s Promised Withdrawal from Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the recent announcement that the Biden administration will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. This is obviously a violation of the May 1 withdrawal agreement made under the Trump administration, but Porter...
More Interviews of Me
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2021 | Blog
Thanks to Everyone's Orphan for the list. Enough Already & Uighurs - Why Libertarian Osama Bin Laden's Strategy to Take Down the US - Bob Murphy Conflicts of Interest #100 - Scott Horton Dismantles the War Party Narrative Ideological Underpinnings of the War on...
4/21/21 Edward Hasbrouck on Abolishing the Draft Once and for All
by Scott Horton | Apr 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Edward Hasbrouck about the effort to finally abolish America's "selective service" requirement, the modern-day remains of what was once the draft. Hasbrouck explains how, after Nixon abolished the draft in the 1960s, Jimmy Carter reinstituted the...
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Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues
I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren't in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers. The DoD has...
Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On
The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...
Blaming Freedom
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
Insurrection of the Mind.
Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...
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