Download Episode. Scott talks with Tim Shorrock about the build-up to today’s tension with North Korea. Shorrock takes us back to the 1990s when the U.S. and North Korean governments were making serious headway in negotiating a formal end to the Korean war. At the...
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11/11/22 Branko Marcetic on the DHS’s Role in Online Censorship
by Scott Horton | Nov 16, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Branko Marcetic of Jacobin to discuss the recent revelations that the Department of Homeland Security has been guiding tech platforms on what they should censor. They observe some specific cases where platforms like Facebook and...
11/7/22 Joe Kent on his Journey from Green Beret to Congressional Candidate
by Scott Horton | Nov 10, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with congressional candidate Joe Kent about his career, worldview and stances on the foreign policy issues of the day. Kent spent two decades in the army and was deployed all over the middle east. He talks Scott through his career and...
11/4/22 Douglas Macgregor on the Lost Opportunities to Leave Ukraine Better Off
by Scott Horton | Nov 8, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talks with retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor about the war in Ukraine. From the beginning, Macgregor has been very critical of the Biden Administration’s myopic insistence on escalation. Now, it appears that a...
10/28/22 John Robb on the Geopolitical Ramifications of Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
by Scott Horton | Nov 1, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with John Robb about the major consequences of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Robb has written about how the internet created a global geopolitical environment determined chiefly by the network effect. Notably, the hysteria...
10/21/22 James Carden on the Need for Strategic Empathy
by Scott Horton | Oct 25, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talked with James Carden about an article he co-wrote recently with Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation. The article compares the current level of tension between the U.S. and Russia with the height of the Cuban...
10/21/22 Annelle Sheline: Mad at the Saudis? End the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 24, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with Quincy Institute research fellow Annelle Sheline about the recent anti-Saudi sentiment in the Democratic Party and the effort to end the war in Yemen. After some tension between the Biden Administration and OPEC+, many Democrats...
10/16/22 Katie Halper on how Speaking the Truth Got Her Fired
by Scott Horton | Oct 17, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews journalist and political commentator Katie Halper who just got fired from The Hill for calling Israel an apartheid state. Halper walks Scott through the timeline of events that resulted in her termination as well as what she was...
10/7/22 Boltzmann Booty on the CIA Asset who Funded the OKC Bombing
by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews Boltzmann Booty, a writer who recently wrote an article about possible CIA ties to the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. It’s well known that Timothy McVeigh and accomplice Terry Nichols used money stolen from a man named Roger Moore...
10/7/22 Hassan El-Tayyab: Don’t Forget About Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 10, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Hassan El-Tayyab from the Friends Committee on National Legislation was back on Antiwar Radio to talk about the Yemen War Powers Resolutions in Congress. Despite the ceasefire agreement coming to an end, El-Tayyab says the campaign to pass these...
10/7/22 Nasser Arrabyee on the Hopeful Situation in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 8, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Journalist Nasser Arrabyee is back to talk about what’s happening on the ground in Yemen. Arrabyee was on the show recently to explain why he was optimistic about negotiations between the numerous factions. Since then, the ceasefire agreement...
9/30/22 Kyle Anzalone on the Evolving War in Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Kyle Anzalone is back on Antiwar Radio to update us on all the biggest news concerning the war in Ukraine. They run through the Russian annexation announcement, the Ukrainian victories reported in the Donbas, the Russian people’s reaction to...
9/20/22 Nasser Arrabyee on Why He’s Optimistic About the Yemen Ceasefire
by Scott Horton | Sep 24, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott speaks to Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee. From the ground in Sana’a, Arrabyee gives his account of how six months of ceasefire has changed life in Yemen. He walks Scott through some of the improvements he’s observed. Most notably, he...
9/19/22 William Hartung: The Arms Industry is Scamming You
by Scott Horton | Sep 23, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott speaks with William Hartung from the Quincy Institute about ways the arms industry is ripping off American taxpayers. They take a close look at a few cases such as the F-35 and the Littoral Combat Ship. Both weapons systems don’t work, but...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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