Nasser Arrabyee is back with an important update from Yemen, where Houthi forces are now claiming to have captured thousands of Saudi soldiers in a battle in August. They likely view this as leverage in a possible peace negotiation, but Scott fears that it could also...
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Operation Victory From Allah
by Steven Woskow | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog
The Yemen Houthi cross-border attack against Saudi forces was a well planned and executed operation as described in the video below posted by Nasser Arrybee. The Yemen Houthi used 10 ballistic missiles against the coalition air base which prevented the coalition...
9/27/19 Mark Perry on America’s Foreign Policy Follies
by Scott Horton | Sep 29, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Perry discusses some of the disasters of America's foreign policy for the last 20 years, particularly U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in their war in Yemen and repeated cases of empowering Iran by starting or supporting ill-advised conflicts that end up making Iran...
9/27/19 Jonathan Fenton-Harvey on Trump’s Pandering to Saudi Arabia
by Scott Horton | Sep 29, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey talks about President Trump's close relationship with Saudi Arabia and his corresponding push against Iran. Trump seems uniquely willing to come out and say his real reasons for this closeness—that it's all about money. Trump likes that Saudi...
Yemen Houthis Capture Thousands of Saudi Troops In Operation Victory From God
by Steven Woskow | Sep 29, 2019 | Blog
The Yemen Houthi military is reporting that thousands of Saudi troops including mercenaries, border troops and several Saudi officers have been captured or killed in Operation Victory From God. Al Jazeera is reporting that the Houthi targeted the southern region...
Bear Witness to the USA-UK-Saudi-UAE-AQAP Genocide in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2019 | Blog
All in the name of reinstalling the Saudis' and Muslim Brotherhood's man, Mansour Hadi, in power in a capital city most Americans have never heard of. https://twitter.com/abcdaee1990/status/1177803244439035904
9/27/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Changing Nature of Global Warfare
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn discusses the recent attacks on a Saudi oil facility, an American drone, and two Japanese tankers, all of which have been pinned to various degrees on Iran. It's unclear to what extent Iran actually was involved—it's always possible that this is a...
Saudi Arabia Agrees to Limited Cease-Fire in Yemen War
by Scott Horton | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog
Just to what degree exactly is not clear. But hey, it's something, maybe.
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Biden’s Middle East Legacy: Reality or Illusion? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
In this episode of the Kyle Anone Show, we unpack the narratives being crafted by officials in the waning days of the Biden administration. Jade Sullivan's recent interview with Ian Bremmer reveals surprising developments in the Middle East that have shaped our...
Competition Is Cooperation
"The pricing process is a social process. It is consummated by an interaction of all members of the society. All collaborate and cooperate, each in the particular role he has chosen for himself in the framework of the division of labor. Competing in cooperation and...
Anti-War Blog – “The world is so beautiful. Let me leave calmly…”
“That's it, mum, goodbye,” he is dying, dead, a Ukrainian soldier in his last moments caught on helmet camera makes his peace. The eight minutes leading up to his death have been shared on social media, a close combat struggle between him and his Russian counterpart....
Crucial Economic Calculation
"The advocates of totalitarianism consider 'capitalism' a ghastly evil, an awful illness that came upon mankind. In the eyes of Marx it was an inevitable stage of mankind’s evolution, but for all that the worst of evils; fortunately salvation is imminent and will free...
If You Read One Book This Year
Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell This new year, please take the time to read this book, one of the most important books for my thinking in my lifetime. It speaks to my observation on war being a collision of complex adaptive systems informed by “institutional...
Which Came First: The Individual or the Group?
"It is illusory to believe that it is possible to visualize collective wholes. They are never visible; their cognition is always the outcome of the understanding of the meaning which acting men attribute to their acts. We can see a crowd, i.e., a multitude of people....
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