Scott talks to Grant Smith about the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American intelligence analyst who pled guilty to espionage on behalf of Israel in the 1980s. Pollard has been imprisoned for his crimes since then, until he was recently released on parole by the Trump...
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12/3/20 Gareth Porter on the Assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the recent assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by the Israeli government, which continues to claim that Fakhrizadeh was a "top nuclear scientist" in Iran. In reality, explains Porter, Fakhrizadeh was not a nuclear...
Hearing the Other Side: Democracy v. Libertarianism. Frank Furedi and Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Dec 4, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/AzUoqiLeWq8 Frank Furedi is a professor of sociology at the University of Kent, we discuss objections to his thesis in Democracy Under Siege: Don't Let Them Lock It Down. Buy the book here: Democracy Under Siege - Amazon Democracy, as we practice it,...
Trump Is Setting Biden Up for a War With Iran
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 4, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On Conflicts of Interest #42, Kyle explains how Trump's Iran policy will position Biden to start a war with Iran. The Daily Beast reports Trump has delegated increasing tensions with Iran to Secretary of State Pompeo. Pompeo hates Iran and wants nothing more than to...
News Roundup 12/3/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 3, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The state of Florida is requiring the woman who gave Bob Kraft a hand job to pay over $31,000 in fines. [Link] Congress is moving ahead with a version of the 2021 NDAA without a repeal of Section 230. Trump has said he will veto the bill without a repeal of...
News Roundup 12/2/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 2, 2020 | News Roundup
China China offers to engage in talks with NATO after a NATO report identified China as a threat. [Link] North Korea The State Department offers a $5 million reward for information about violations of sanctions on North Korea. [Link] Afghanistan An Afghan government...
COVID-19 Lockdowns: Liberty and Science
by Sam Jacobs | Dec 1, 2020 | Featured Articles
COVID-19 hit America’s shores early in 2020 and since then there has been an abundance of misinformation and shifting goalpost. We have compiled all the data that you need about COVID and your civil liberties to take action.
News Roundup 12/1/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 1, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Biden has elected Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Budget Management. Tanden is a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and is unconcerned about the US budget deficit. [Link] Congress is looking to include reforms to Section 230 - a law that works to ensure free...
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Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
The Case for Not Voting
Bretigne Shaffer and I explain why, if you want to effect real change, the most sensible thing you can do is to not vote.
The Royal Navy Submarine Force Remains Surfaced
The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
Anti-War Blog – Not Enough Paper Cranes
When I was in primary school we were taught about a little Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes. She was one of the many victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast, dying after the initial detonation from radiation sickness. One of many thousands who...
Speaking of democracy…
Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the upcoming Democratic party convention, to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024. There have been brokered conventions in...
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