Rajan Menon, Professor of International Relations at CCNY and Senior Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University and author of "The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention," is on the show to talk about the Yemeni War. Menon...
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8/31/18 Daniel Ellsberg: The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter
by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2018 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg is on the show to talk about his book The Doomsday Machine and his experiences working in the RAND corporation in the early 1960s, specifically on the casualties numbers estimated from a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union and China. Ellsberg talks...
8/31/18 Larry Wilkerson on Neocons in Trump Administration
by Scott Horton | Sep 4, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Larry Wilkerson, former army Colonel and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, is interviewed on his new article at LobeLog "The Neoconservative Comeback" on the growing influence of neoconservatism in the Trump Administration. Trump's Syria and...
8/24/18 Mason Tvert on the Marijuana Policy Project
by Scott Horton | Aug 28, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Mason Tvert from the Marijuana Policy Project is on the show to update Scott about all the topics surrounding the Marijuana Policy Project's efforts to get marijuana legalized in Colorado. Tvert talks about how they tried to re-educate Coloradans about the true nature...
8/22/18 Danny Sjursen on Terror Wars and Becoming Antiwar
by Scott Horton | Aug 25, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen is interviewed on his service in the Terror Wars, how he became antiwar, and how he wants his service and the service of others to be honored. Sjursen is a major in the U.S. army and former history instructor at West Point. He writes regularly for...
08/20/18 Mark Thornton on Skyscraper Curse and Austrian Business Cycle
by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises institute and Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, is interviewed on the so called "Skyscraper Theory", and his new book "The Skyscraper Curse", about the correlation of new tall...
8/14/18 Peter Van Buren on Iraq, Twitter, and More
by Scott Horton | Aug 16, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren is interviewed on his recent twitter ban, and also his books "We Meant Well" and his time in Iraq as a foreign service officer. Van Buren talks about the drama surrounding his book's publication while he was still employed at the State Department, and...
8/10/18 Grant Smith on US Lying About Israel’s Nukes
by Scott Horton | Aug 11, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, is interviewed on his new article "Can the US Keep Lying About Israel's Nukes?". A new court case may force the US government to admit that they know Israel has nuclear weapons. Israel's history...
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Focus on Incentives, Ignore ‘Good Intentions’. Keith Knight & Joseph Solis-Mullen.
https://youtu.be/ybD7vbnNDy4 The current President can teach us a lot about how incentives can alter a persons behavior. Assume you agree with me, that Trump is a nefarious actor. Was Trump more of a threat to humanity in the voluntary sector, or the political...
Radar Follies: The Delicate Golden Thread
What happens when billions of dollars of Western radars are shattered and decimated? Once fire direction can’t translate & collate Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) inputs to operable cueing and precise targeting for munitions, efficacy of fires...
Rules for Radicals, The Purpose w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on the old revolutionary text, Rule for Radicals.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Signals of War? US Evacuates Embassy in Israel, Trump Unhappy with Iran
Sirens don’t always sound before a war—sometimes the warning is a bland memo telling diplomats to pack. We open with the U.S. pullback of non‑emergency staff from Israel and track how similar moves in Lebanon and likely elsewhere signal more than routine caution. From...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Americans Don’t Want War with Iran – US Officials Have a New Plan to Manipulate Them
A quiet leak says the loud part: some senior voices in Washington think the politics “work better” if Israel strikes Iran first. Not because it changes the threat. Because it changes the story Americans hear. We pull that thread and walk through the actual mechanics...
Anti-War Blog – The War Cycle
The special alliance of Israel and the United States have attacked Iran, again. How severe and protracted this war shall become, we do not know. The lapdogs of empire likely will support their masters, the usual coalition such as America’s Ghurkas, or Australia, what...
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