Scott interviews Joe Dyke about his coverage of the little-known secret talks between Norwegian diplomats and Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, which sought a peaceful end to the war there. Although Norway was a part of the group of countries that decided to begin bombing...
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3/26/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s Uncompromising Parliamentary Extremists
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Kalmen Barkin fills Scott in on the political situation in Israel, a country that in his words is in complete political deadlock. Leading right wing figures like Prime Minister Netanyahu have had trouble forming clear ruling coalitions recently, in part because of...
3/26/21 Jim Bovard on the Government Cover-Up of the Waco Massacre
by Scott Horton | Mar 26, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jim Bovard about the Waco massacre, and especially the second investigation into the government's actions, led by Senator John Danforth in 1999. After new evidence emerged that contradicted the official government story, another investigation was...
3/18/21 Daniel Davis: America Must Finally and Fully Withdraw from Iraq
by Scott Horton | Mar 22, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Davis talks about the need to fully withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. He traces the history of terrible decision-making there since 2003, which has encumbered America in an unwinnable war for almost two decades. Worse, we can't leave. Thanks to political pressure...
3/18/21 Daryl Kimball: Enough Already, No New ICBMs
by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Daryl Kimball talks about the need to limit the creation and proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world. Today, says Kimball, the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction: a $200 billion plan is in the works to update and expand America's nuclear arsenal, even...
3/18/21 Brian McGlinchey on the Brutal Realities of Economic Sanctions
by Scott Horton | Mar 19, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Brian McGlinchey about the realities of America's economic sanctions, which many believe are a more humane alternative to outright war. But this couldn't be further from the truth. McGlinchey reminds us that in essence, sanctions mean denying basic...
3/9/21 Martin Smith on Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham Leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani
by Scott Horton | Mar 14, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to documentary producer Martin Smith about the subject of his newest project, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani. Smith considers Jolani and his fighters to be something of a separate group from al Qaeda and ISIS who should be treated as...
3/12/21 Danny Sjursen on the Biden Administration’s Afghanistan Plan
by Scott Horton | Mar 13, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the leaked Biden administration plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The document evidently represents the Biden administration's new take on the deal reached with the Taliban during the Trump administration, which laid...
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WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast Debuts Soon
I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in...
Failing Upward: PR Stunt Backfires
The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos...
Why We Need to End the Federal Reserve System
A new short documentary from the Mises Institute explains how the Federal Reserve system enslaves us all.
The Shame of Veterans Day
A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the...
Some Things Never Change
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” --John Philpot Curran, Irish statesman, 1790
Anti-War Blog – Remember
The 11th of November, specifically at 11AM is a sacred time that has taken on a religious observance among the victorious of World War One. A time to officially remember those who died in that war and the many others since, often with the observation of silence for a...
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