Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America's foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization to the escalation of the war on drugs in the 1990s, when SWAT raids...
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9/25/20 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Latest Fake Terrorism Entrapment Scheme
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Aaronson discusses the FBI's dubious techniques for luring people into fake terrorist plots, which very often border on entrapment. In this case he takes up the story of two Americans involved in the "boogaloo" movement, who were approached by FBI agents...
9/23/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 12 of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. A major focus of the last few days, he says, has been Assange's mental health, including a brand new diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. The defense has argued that this, combined with...
9/18/20 Muhammad Sahimi on Pompeo’s Dangerous Iran Failures
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi discusses Mike Pompeo's continual efforts to provoke a war between the U.S. and Iran, or to incite regime change from within. His "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign is part of the quest to attain one of these outcomes, a policy that Sahimi thinks is...
9/18/20 Grant Smith on the Exaggerated Significance of Evangelical Zionists in America
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the role of evangelical Christians in the Zionist movement in America. Grant examines the premise that evangelicals are the most significant driving force behind American support for Israel, a popular notion ever since George Bush Sr....
9/18/20 Tana Ganeva on the Death of Holly Barlow-Austin
by Scott Horton | Sep 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Tana Ganeva about her recent article detailing the death of a woman due to medical neglect in one of America's worst private jails. Holly Barlow-Austin, an HIV patient, was detained for violating probation starting in April, and within a few short...
9/15/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day Six of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. He describes the great line-up of witnesses being summoned by Assange's defense team and how easily, for the most part, they've been able to dismantle the arguments from the prosecution....
9/11/20 Arthur Bloom on the Fake Opinion Columnists Pushing War With Iran
by Scott Horton | Sep 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Arthur Bloom talks about a recent piece from The American Conservative, which exposes the case of a prolific and well-known anti-Iran opinion columnist who turned out not to be a real person. "Amir Basiri," who wrote dozens of pieces for mostly right-leaning...
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Hey Moe! Hey Larry! Look, It’s the Army Watercraft Circus!
Not only can they not float a portable pier [Gaza] (at a cool burn rate of 335 million debt-bucks) but they can't maintain an aging fleet of maritime connectors. The Army continues to trip over itself in most missions. Maybe they could reach zero by 2028 in the...
The US Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Contemporary Military Incompetence
The six-thousand-ton INS Arihant sank in 2017 and remained out of service at the docks while the water was pumped out, and the pipes replaced. The entire process took ten months. Imagine not only not having the sea sense to seal your boat before diving but having no...
Israeli War Crimes Documented by the Israeli Defense Forces
There’s no sense denying Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and wanton destruction when its war crimes are documented by its own armed forces.
Government Subsidy of K-PhD: The Suicide Pact of Western Civilization
The German Empire arranged passage for Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, to Russia to try to seize power from the government. They traveled on an armored train through Germany then took a ship to Sweden where...
Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues
I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren't in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers. The DoD has...
Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
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