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Aaron Mate vs Josh Rogin On The War In Syria
by Steven Woskow | Sep 27, 2020 | Blog
Aaron Mate takes on Josh Rogin. Aaron links the war on Syria to the war for Al-Qaeda. "Joe Biden: "Our allies were our largest problem in Syria... They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad....
9/25/20 Grant Smith on the Israel Lobby, Tech Censorship and the 1619 Project
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his ongoing work on the Israel lobby and its influence in America. Scott likens the story of Israel and Palestine to the history of the U.S. government and the Native Americans—for a long time everyone learned a skewed version that...
9/25/20 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Latest Fake Terrorism Entrapment Scheme
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Aaronson discusses the FBI's dubious techniques for luring people into fake terrorist plots, which very often border on entrapment. In this case he takes up the story of two Americans involved in the "boogaloo" movement, who were approached by FBI agents...
9/25/20 Andrea Prasow on the Deadly Consequences of the US-Saudi War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Andrea Prasow about the war crimes and human rights violations being perpetrated by all sides in the war in Yemen. She reminds us that although civilians always suffer the most during war, this war has seen a particularly cruel strategy by the Saudis,...
Trump Brags That McMaster Defends Him As a Russia Hawk
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | Blog
Sad! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1308479201088081922
Exile For James Comey
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | Blog
Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Brennan, Clapper, Mueller, Rosenstein, Weissman and all their families should be stripped of their property and banished from the United States of America forever for their treason against the American people and U.S. Constitution. (Don't...
We Must Prosecute American Officials For War Crimes in Yemen
by Doug Bandow | Sep 26, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently announced that it was providing $204 million in aid for the impoverished and war-ravaged country of Yemen. That sounds generous, but it’s the Saudi royals themselves who are responsible for most of the death, destruction,...
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News Roundup 6/13/17
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Trump's travel ban. [Link] Senate Democrats will join with Rand Paul in opposing a weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The vote on the weapons sale could occur this week. [Link] Alexei Navalny and over 1000 other protesters...
More Foreign Policy Continuity as Trump Affirms NATO Mutual Defense
Last Friday, President Trump reaffirmed the US commitment to Article 5 of NATO, which commits the US to come to the defense of any other NATO member. Trump's decision is in keeping with the US's traditional position on the topic. However, it is somewhat at odds with...
Drug Overdose Deaths, 2016: Casualties of War
Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, the New York Times‘s Josh Katz reports. In 2016, overdoses claimed somewhere between 59,000 and 65,000 lives. That’s more American lives than were lost in the Vietnam war. It’s 20 times the...
News Roundup 6/12/17
Trump confirms the US is committed to NATO's mutual defense pact. The defense pact is known as Article 5 and requires all NATO countries to come to the defense of a NATO country that gets attacked. [Link] Trump says Qatar has a funded terrorism at a high level and he...
Arbitration With China: A Walk-Through Example
To wrap up my discussion on using arbitration instead of war, I'll offer a concrete example of how it would work. I've repeatedly mentioned the situation in the South China Sea, so I'll use that in this example. Arbitration can succeed in this scenario if it can...
Is Arbitration A Practical Alternative To War?
In my last blogpost, I discussed how the US government could be constitutionally restructured to use arbitration instead of war to conduct foreign policy. If every great power was structured this way, then obviously arbitration would be a practicable alternative to...
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