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9/15/17 John Kiriakou on blowing the whistle on the CIA torture network

by Damon Hatheway | Sep 15, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Famed whistleblower John Kiriakou, the former chief of counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan, returns to the show to discuss his latest book on Abu Zubaydah "The Convenient Terrorist" which he co-authored with Guantanamo whistleblower Joseph Hickman. Kiriakou...

The Curious Case Of Ex-NSA Inspector General George Ellard

by Patrick G. Eddington | Aug 4, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

On August 3, The American Conservative ran a lengthy piece of mine dealing with the whistleblower protection nightmare that is the Department of Defense. One of the subjects of that piece is now former NSA IG George Ellard, and because I had even more on his case than...

Help Daniel Davis Help South Sudanese

by Scott Horton | Jul 7, 2017 | Blog

The great Daniel L. Davis, Afghan "surge" whistleblower of 2012, is traveling to Uganda to help the South Sudanese refugees from the horrible civil war being waged in the aftermath of the U.S.-engineered secession from the government in the north. Help support his...

Security…or Surveillance? The Edward Snowden Interview

by Ron Paul | Jun 23, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

The heroic Ron Paul interviews the heroic Edward Snowden: In this wide-ranging exclusive interview, former intelligence analyst turned whistleblower Edward Snowden tells all. What to say to those who argue that they've got nothing to hide so nothing to fear from the...

6/12/17 Peter van Buren on Reality Winner’s dubious arrest

by Scott Horton | Jun 12, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Peter van Buren is on the show to talk about the arrest of the latest leaker or whistleblower to be arrested, Reality Winner. The dubious circumstances and questions surrounding the arrest and leaking of the document are discussed at length. van Buren also discusses...

5/8/17 John Kiriakou on the CIA’s illegal torture program and his time in prison for blowing the whistle on it

by Scott Horton | May 8, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer and author of Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison, discusses why he refused to participate in the CIA's so-called enhanced interrogation program after 9/11, and why he - as a whistleblower -...

3/29/17 Ray McGovern on Russia hysteria, media madness, Trump hatred, and NSA spying

by Scott Horton | Mar 29, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst for 27 years, discusses his article - co-written by NSA whistleblower Bill Binney - about President Trump's legitimate concerns that senior US government officials (including himself) are being spied on by the NSA and the details leaked to...

1/13/17 William Binney on Russian hacking, NSA spying, and counterproductive means of fighting terrorism

by Scott Horton | Jan 13, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

William Binney, a retired senior NSA official and whistleblower, discusses the dubious evidence that Russia used computer hackers to manipulate the election and help Donald Trump win; why 9/11 and other terrorist attacks could have been prevented if the NSA used a...

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UTOPYC: A Realistic Libertarian Utopia

What if there were a country with no state, no taxes, no politicians, and no public institutions? That’s the premise of Utopyc, a novel that answers the need—long identified by Rothbard—for a libertarian narrative capable of moving, convincing, and inspiring. The...

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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The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...