Pat McGeehan recounts his experience in the most recent West Virginia state legislative session trying to pass his "Defend the Guard" legistlation. He describes the many battles involved in introducing a bill like this, waged both behind the scenes in the form of...
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3/6/20 Andrew Cockburn on Russia’s Phony Hypersonic Missile Threat
by Scott Horton | Mar 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Andrew Cockburn about Russia's supposed new hypersonic missiles, which are said to have the ability to elude conventional missile defense systems, potentially making the U.S. a target for a nuclear strike with little that could be done to defend...
3/6/20 Branko Marcetic: The Case Against Joe Biden
by Scott Horton | Mar 10, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Branko Marcetic about his new book, Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, which explores the arc of Biden's decades-long political career. Marcetic explains that Biden has never really had serious ideological commitments, and instead has simply...
3/6/20 Steven Silverman on Baltimore’s $210 Million Strip Search Lawsuit
by Scott Horton | Mar 8, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Baltimore lawyer Steven Silverman about a 2009 case involving the alleged illegal cavity search of his client by Baltimore police. Silverman's client claimed that Officer Shakil Moss stopped him without cause and conducted the cavity search in public in...
2/21/20 Nasser Arrabyee with an Update on the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Feb 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Nasser Arrabyee about the latest on the war in Yemen. The humanitarian situation there is still desperate, with the UN finally updating its estimates to over 200,000 dead—many of these women and young children. But Arrabyee sees reasons for hope. For...
2/21/20 Dave DeCamp on the OPCW’s Efforts to Discredit Douma Whistleblowers
by Scott Horton | Feb 25, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about the OPCW's efforts to discredit a pair of whistleblowers, both of whom are former employees who claim their findings were expunged from the organization's official reports on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma in 2018. The...
2/19/20 Trita Parsi on Making a Restrained Foreign Policy the Status Quo
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Trita Parsi about an event being hosted next week by Parsi's organization, the Quincy Institute, which will pit advocates of a restrained foreign policy against war hawks in a series of panel discussions. The event is Wednesday, February 26 in...
2/14/20 Cliff Maloney on the Defend the Guard Movement
by Scott Horton | Feb 18, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Cliff Maloney of Young Americans for Liberty joins the show to talk about the "Defend the Guard" movement popping up in state legislatures around the country. The legislation on which the movement is based calls for an end to the calling up of states' national guard...
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We’re Not One Of Them. We’re One Of You.
The life of a state-intellectual is charmed. They get a cushy job at a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, the Pentagon, USAID, and foreign governments. They get invited on power faction media and platformed as essential thinkers. They get professorships at...
US Hypersonics Off to Stuttering Start (Again)
This is part of the "prompt strike" initiative trying to increase the speed of delivery of munitions operationally. It took two years of delays to have a first test launch in December 2024 (maybe, Pentagon is shady on launch date actual); The missile at the core of...
Carrier Follies: Yet Another Failure Arrow in the Quiver
You had one job. Well, two. You can't launch and receive aircraft reliably. Nor apparently can you detect and deploy sensor capabilities to aim the aircraft that occasionally leave the very expensive deck. The radar has actually degraded over time. The dual-band radar...
David Hearst Explains Trump’s Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
Trump aims to help Israel ethnically cleanse Gaza and deepen its apartheid regime in the West Bank.
“Riviera of the Middle East…”
There’s optimism among the small government conservatives, liberty nationalists and MAGA hardliners from the first weeks of Trumps second presidency. The exposure of USAID to the world, revealing waste, nefarious conduct and ideologically bias that only proves that...
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