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9/3/21 Coleen Rowley on the Many Ways 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented

by Scott Horton | Sep 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott speaks with FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley about the institutional failures that occurred before and after the 9/11 attacks. Rowley believes that there are many ways the attacks could have been prevented ranging from better information sharing between agencies...

9/3/21 Danny Sjursen on Afghanistan, Veterans and Counterinsurgency

by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Danny Sjursen and gets his reaction to the Taliban victory in Afghanistan. Sjursen thinks the Taliban’s campaign to take control of the country may soon be studied in war colleges. He also thinks that Scott’s book Fool’s Errand should be studied at...

9/3/21 Gareth Porter on the Media’s Reaction to the Withdrawal From Afghanistan

by Scott Horton | Sep 5, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter joins Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss his latest piece about the media’s reaction to Afghanistan. Porter lays out how virtually the entire media ecosystem is arguing the withdrawal was done prematurely from both a counterterrorism standpoint and in...

9/3/21 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard and the Withdrawal From Afghanistan

by Scott Horton | Sep 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks with Dan McKnight about the effort to pass Defend the Guard legislation, which would block the use of National Guard troops in foreign combat operations without a declaration of war. McKnight gives background on what led him to become involved in political...

8/30/21 Jack Murphy on America’s Failed Drone Campaign in Afghanistan

by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks with Jack Murphy about the piece he wrote detailing the surge in drone strikes that took place under President Trump. Murphy explains how the whole project started when a distraught drone operator approached him. It quickly became clear that that drone...

8/27/21 Ashraf Nubani on Why Sirhan Sirhan, the Man Convicted for Killing Robert Kennedy, Ought to Be Released

by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews attorney and writer Ashraf Nubani about his recent piece making a case for releasing Robert Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Nubani explains that Sirhan meets all the stated requirements of the parole board and that the pressure to keep him...

8/27/21 Daniel Davis on the Kabul Airport Bombing

by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott speaks with Daniel Davis about the suicide bombing at the entrance to the Kabul Airport. Davis considers this an especially devastating attack because the soldiers killed were only days away from being withdrawn from the country. He also believes that these...

8/27/21 Peter Van Buren: There Will Be Another Afghanistan

by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks with Peter Van Buren about the situation in Afghanistan. Van Buren explains that many of the people tasked with working on the Afghanistan War were, in fact, working to cover up their own role in the war. And that these individual failures played off each...

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The Royal Navy is Now a Third World Force

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I Have a Dream!

Dear President Trump, Fire missions! Please conduct airstrikes on: The FBI Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia. AND The NSA Bluffdale/Camp Williams LEED Silver facility in Saratoga Springs, Utah. Please be sure to evacuate all employees to a local...

Dust to Dust: Imperial Decline is Baked into the Statist Recipe

Nothing is working for anyone with a clear eye to reform in the Department of Defense. We may find some reform will take place now but I am cynical and not holding out much hope. Nothing. "Fixes are proposed; panels are held; good, sensible reforms are constantly...

The Biggest Heist in Human History

Thought experiment: what if it turns out that the happy warriors for the socialist & government supremacist projects claiming aspirations of altruistic and shining ambition for the betterment of humankind were insincere and all of it was actually a gigantic grift...

The Past is Future Tense, Always

The Wayback Machine reminds us of all past tense showing us the future. The base in Balakliya, near Kharkiv, is around 100km (60 miles) from fighting against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern oblasts (2017). 2017: “The Ukrainian SBU – the equivalent of the FBI...