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3/9/21 Dan McKnight on the Defend the Guard Movement

by Scott Horton | Mar 10, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

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...

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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HMS Prince of Wales will lead Carrier Strike Group 25 on a deployment to the Pacific. The Prince of Wales has suffered many propulsion issues (it’s a non-nuclear carrier) and engineering casualties. Non-nuclear carrier operations in war in the 21st century rely on...

“The Bisexuals of Politics”

In a recent debate on the Joe Rogan Experience, between Douglas Murray and Dave Smith, Murray accused libertarians as being the “bisexuals of politics.” An interesting claim, one that assumes politics is in itself is a binary. Or that those in the ‘liberty’ spectrum,...