Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. Naftali Bennett has just taken over as Israel's prime minister, following Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to successfully form a coalition government. Bennett, explains Barkin, is quite far on the right, yet he and...
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6/4/21 Annelle Sheline on Washington’s Fatal Misunderstanding of the Situation in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Jun 6, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Annelle Sheline about her work on the war in Yemen. Sheline says that negotiating an end to the war has proven difficult, since both the UN framework and the U.S.-Saudi mentality is totally inconsistent with the situation on the ground. Neither will...
5/28/21 Tom Woods on the Revitalization of the Libertarian Movement
by Scott Horton | May 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to the great Tom Woods about the latest happenings in Libertarian Party politics. Scott, Tom and many other committed libertarian activists have decided to join the LP recently in an effort to re-energize the movement and spread the principles of liberty....
5/20/21 Jeremy Hammond on the Deliberate Perpetuation of Strife Between Israel and Palestine
by Scott Horton | May 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Jeremy Hammond about the real history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing on the fact that, counter to the mainstream narrative, Israel has encouraged the rise of Hamas all along as a useful foil. Israel, Hammond explains, has never wanted a...
5/20/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s Fraught Past and Uncertain Political Future
by Scott Horton | May 21, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. In the last two weeks, Knesset opposition leader Yair Lapid got the opportunity to form a coalition government, and possibly oust Prime Minister Netanyahu for the first time since 2009. But just afterward, as...
5/20/21 Eric Brakey and Reed Cooley on State Nullification and the Defend the Guard Movement
by Scott Horton | May 21, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Eric Brakey, former state senator from Maine and current spokesman for Young Americans for Liberty, talks about the efforts to get Defend the Guard bills into state legislatures. The Defend the Guard movement is an attempt to force congress to uphold its role in...
5/20/21 Gareth Porter on the Increasing Power Shift Toward Hard-Liners in Iran
by Scott Horton | May 20, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the national political scene in Iran, where, in large part thanks to U.S. intervention, the population is increasingly aligning behind the most conservative forces, and moving away from President Rouhani. Iranians, Porter says, have...
5/13/21 Mike Swanson on the Post-Covid Economic ‘Recovery’
by Scott Horton | May 17, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Mike Swanson gives his take on what's in store for the U.S. economy as the covid restrictions begin to lift. Although the early economic recovery isn't looking as rosy as some predicted, many businesses do seem to be getting back to normal as the pandemic subsides....
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Focus on Incentives, Ignore ‘Good Intentions’. Keith Knight & Joseph Solis-Mullen.
https://youtu.be/ybD7vbnNDy4 The current President can teach us a lot about how incentives can alter a persons behavior. Assume you agree with me, that Trump is a nefarious actor. Was Trump more of a threat to humanity in the voluntary sector, or the political...
Radar Follies: The Delicate Golden Thread
What happens when billions of dollars of Western radars are shattered and decimated? Once fire direction can’t translate & collate Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) inputs to operable cueing and precise targeting for munitions, efficacy of fires...
Rules for Radicals, The Purpose w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on the old revolutionary text, Rule for Radicals.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Signals of War? US Evacuates Embassy in Israel, Trump Unhappy with Iran
Sirens don’t always sound before a war—sometimes the warning is a bland memo telling diplomats to pack. We open with the U.S. pullback of non‑emergency staff from Israel and track how similar moves in Lebanon and likely elsewhere signal more than routine caution. From...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Americans Don’t Want War with Iran – US Officials Have a New Plan to Manipulate Them
A quiet leak says the loud part: some senior voices in Washington think the politics “work better” if Israel strikes Iran first. Not because it changes the threat. Because it changes the story Americans hear. We pull that thread and walk through the actual mechanics...
Anti-War Blog – The War Cycle
The special alliance of Israel and the United States have attacked Iran, again. How severe and protracted this war shall become, we do not know. The lapdogs of empire likely will support their masters, the usual coalition such as America’s Ghurkas, or Australia, what...
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