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The Pentagon Made F-35 Performance Tests Easier
Because "it's too heavy and slow." Via Laurence M. Vance: "The Pentagon's pursuit of the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jet has been a heartbreaking one. If you're a tax payer, the program's estimated $1 trillion price tag probably breaks your heart a little...
‘Moral Injury’ in the Terror War
Apparently "Kill! Kill! Kill! Blood Makes the Grass Grow!" is not working well enough anymore at destroying the consciences of young American G.I.s Well I guess we need to find a better way to help normal people deal with the psychopathic acts the government hired...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
3/24/23 Ryan McMaken on Nuclear Weapons and How the Fed Fuels Inequality
Scott is joined by Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute to talk about nuclear weapons and the boom-bust cycle. They begin with a discussion of McMaken’s recent article pushing back against common arguments for the production of more nuclear weapons. McMaken argues that, even if you accept the premise that we need nuclear weapons for deterrence, it does not follow that we need thousands of them. They then move on to the economy. They first dig into what’s actually behind today’s inflation and looming recession. That leads to a broader discussion about why some of the most important goods and services, like housing and healthcare, are growing more expensive.
Discussed on the show:
- “No, We Don’t Need More Nuclear Weapons” (Mises Wire)
- “The Fed Backtracks on Future Rate Hikes as Bank Failures Loom Large” (Mises Wire)
- Mises.org
Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. He has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Breaking Away: The Case of Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities and Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.
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05/15/14 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses why Israel is serious about spying but not about peace; John Kerry’s almost-frank admission that Israel sabotaged the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks; and anger within the US intelligence community about 60 years of Israel stealing US nuclear and commercial technology.
Transcript:
SH: Our first guest up today is Phil Giraldi, he’s a former CIA and DIA officer and he writes for The American Conservative Magazine and www.unz.com. Welcome back to the show Phil how are you doing.
PG: I’m fine Scott.
SH: Good deal, happy to have you back and I’m sorry I don’t have your article in front of me anymore because I’m running a check disk and it’s taking forever. But I read it this morning and it’s all about Israeli spying -I don’t remember the title sorry, but it’s www.unz.com – brand new by Phil Giraldi about Israeli spying and about Jeff Stein’s two pieces in Newsweek -about Israeli spying and a great deal about Palestine as well. Let’s start with the failed talks and what it all means.
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05/15/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses how US demands on limiting Iran’s nuclear breakout capability are threatening to derail negotiations; and why Obama is not preparing a Nixonian “going to China” plan to normalize relations with Iran after 35 years of hostility.
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05/14/14 – Reza Marashi – The Scott Horton Show
Reza Marashi, Research Director at the National Iranian American Council, discusses how to strike a win-win deal during the home stretch of nuclear negotiations with Iran.
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05/14/14 – Nebojsa Malic – The Scott Horton Show
Antiwar.com columnist Nebojsa Malic discusses how the lessons of Yugoslavia’s dismemberment apply to the Ukrainian crisis; the West’s hypocrisy on using force to quell political dissent; Russia’s response to US intervention and NATO expansion at its border; the favored nations exempted from IMF economic reforms; and Joe Biden’s son’s appointment to the board of directors of Ukraine’s largest private gas producer.
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05/13/14 – Brendan O’Neill – The Scott Horton Show
Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked-Online, discusses how the West’s war on Libya destabilized Africa and boosted Boko Haram;Â the paradigm-shift from centralized African nation states to lawless zones divided along ethnic and religious lines; and how US global humanitarian intervention spurred terrorist groups to embrace Al Qaeda’s brand of international terrorism.
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05/13/14 – Trevor Timm – The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses Glenn Greenwald’s new book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.
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05/12/14 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist with The Independent, discusses Prince Andrew’s praise of Bahrain, island of torture; the US government’s paeans to democracy while siding with the very worst dictators around the world; and the Syrian government’s progress against foreign-backed rebel fighters.
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05/09/14 – John Glaser – The Scott Horton Show
John Glaser, editor for Antiwar.com, discusses the fearmongering and hysteria over Boko Haram; why the State Department’s official terrorism list is obsolete; and China’s economic expansion vs. US militarism in Africa.
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