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Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident

by Scott Horton | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog

Gareth the Great in the American Conservative: The fingerprints of Pompeo are all over this provocation to war. In a striking parallel to the deception that accompanied the Gulf of Tonkin crisis in 1964—in which the American public was told about an attack on a U.S....

Iranian Plane Crash

by Scott Horton | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog

As Tom Woods pointed out in this great speech 10 years ago, when there’s an earthquake, hurricane, plane crash or other major disaster in Iran, we all feel terrible and grieve for the loss of life and donate to charity over it and the rest. But then we’re supposed to...

Was Kataib Hezbollah Even Responsible For That Rocket Attack?

by Scott Horton | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog

They denied it. Scott Ritter wonders whether what's-left-of-ISIS is jerking our chain: The U.S. blamed Iranian-backed Khaitab Hezbollah (no relation to the Lebanese Hezbollah group), for the attacks. There are several problems with this narrative, first and foremost...

War Powers Resolutions Don’t Matter

by Zack Sorenson | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog

Marbury v. Madison took the written U.S. Constitution and superseded it with a British style system of an unwritten constitutionality. This was judicial review and it lasted until the New Deal when the jurisprudence of limited government figured out that the...

Did Iran Kill 600 Americans in Iraq War II? No.

by Scott Horton | Jan 5, 2020 | Blog

Due to the current ubiquity of claims that Iran killed 600 Americans in Iraq War II, I figured it might be worth bringing up the fact that that is a complete and damnable lie. In the case of Petraeus’s surge against Sadrist forces in Sadr City and Najaf in 2007 and...

Iran: Deaths in custody. Sexual violence. Hunger strikes.

by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2019 | Blog

Nah. U.S.A. Today: What we uncovered inside ICE facilities across the US

China Commissions 2nd Aircraft Carrier, Challenging U.S. Dominance

by Scott Horton | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog

Claims the New York Times. But America has 10 aircraft carrier battle groups and hundreds of naval aircraft.

Russia and China Have Their Own Problems

by Scott Horton | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog

The U.S. has no reason to fear their alliance. In fact only U.S. threats incentivize them to grow closer in their relations. #swissforeignpolicynow

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Christmas Hiatus

The Chasing Ghosts and WarNotes podcasts are on Christmas vacation, next episode will be published on Monday, 5 January 2026. See you next year. Stay strapped for Christmas...

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I sat down recently with LiquidZulu to talk about anarcho-capitalism, Objectivism, and other things.

Truth in Advertising in the UK At Last

I love it that the National Health Service (NHS) socialist medical horror show in the UK uses the handle NHSuk on the X. The United Kingdom prides itself on this crown jewel of medical malpractice & incompetence that is a love child of Benny Hill, Trofim Lysenko...

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Fat Amy is the Exemplar of the American Military Paper Tiger

The foreign purchase entanglement and moral hazard of overspending of the F35 is emblematic of making a two trillion dollar purchase over time where the money is simply wasted but driven to completion by the sheer momentum of the insane and imbecilic US military...

Treurgrond Watch Along

Treurgrond is an Afrikaans movie about farm murders in South Africa. Given the Piers Morgan Nick Fuentes discussion I thought appropriate to dig into a difficult topic. LET'S WATCH

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