Dan McKnight discusses the progress of the "Defend the Guard" movement, a set of bills that would mandate that a state's national guard troops not be deployed overseas without an official declaration of war from congress. The legislation has sponsors in 31 states so...
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2/19/21 Eli Clifton on the Arms Industry Money Behind Biden’s Afghanistan Study Group
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Eli Clifton discusses the Biden Administration's Afghanistan study group, a panel of national security experts and former officers giving recommendations on whether the U.S. should get out of Afghanistan on the Trump administration's withdrawal timeline. Some of these...
2/18/21 Nathan J. Robinson on the Crackdown on Critics of Israel
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Nathan Robinson shares his story of being fired from the Guardian after posting a sarcastic tweet about Israel. After joking about the amount of military aid the U.S. government sends to Israel, Robinson was immediately labeled an anti-semite and swiftly fired from...
2/16/21 Nasser Arrabyee on the Continued Suffering and Devastation in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Feb 18, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee discusses the heavy fighting going on outside of Ma'rib, the last stronghold of the Saudi-backed government in Yemen. The Houthi "rebels" are closing in on the city, says Arrabyee, and may capture it within a few days—doing so could give them the...
2/11/21 Alan Macleod on the Social Media Giants in Bed With Big Government
by Scott Horton | Feb 12, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Alan Macleod talks about the unholy alliance between government and social media. In an alarming number of cases, says Macleod, companies like Facebook and Twitter end up hiring former government officials to high-ranking positions, creating a revolving door that...
2/5/21 Bette Dam: How Flawed Intelligence Leads to War Crimes in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Feb 6, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Bette Dam about her reporting on the war in Afghanistan. Dam explains how faulty intelligence about enemy "combatants" has led to many unjustified killings, notably the war crimes by Australian special forces in Oruzgan Province in recent years. In...
2/4/21 Jim Bovard on the Official Whitewash of the Killing of Duncan Lemp
by Scott Horton | Feb 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard is back to discuss the tragic killing of Duncan Lemp, a Maryland man who was shot by police during a no-knock SWAT raid last year. Bovard has been covering the details of Lemp's story ever since, including the ways that the police department's story keeps...
1/28/21 Shuja Paul on the Forgotten Bombs of America’s Secret War on Laos
by Scott Horton | Jan 31, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Shuja Paul about his forthcoming documentary, Waiting to Explode: Forgotten Bombs of a Secret War Continue to Kill. Paul's film tells the little-known story of the thousands of undetonated cluster bombs dropped by the U.S. during the Vietnam War,...
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Celebrate Juneteenth the Right Way
Today is Juneteenth. I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR They became good communists on that...
The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)
***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...
Be Careful What You Ask for
You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.
Phony Noninterventionists
Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...
America First is Always the Sober Alternative to War on the World
My shortest post ever. Ironic that Israel has more US senators than America.
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I discuss the news around deportations, the military parade, No Kings, and Iran v Israel. ALP
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