4/16/21 Ray McGovern: Biden and Blinken Blink on Ukraine

Scott interviews Ray McGovern about America’s perilous foreign policy stance in Eastern Europe. Over the last few years, the U.S. has increasingly thrown its support behind Ukraine—and specifically the pro-Western, anti-Russian forces in that country. This policy has...

4/12/21 Ted Carpenter on Putin’s Ukraine Red Line

Scott interviews Ted Carpenter about America’s dangerous Ukraine policy. Carpenter explains how ever since the Obama administration helped right-wing extremists in Western Ukraine overthrow the elected Russian-aligned government in 2014, the U.S. has been behaving as...

12/20/19 Lyle J. Goldstein: The War in Ukraine Must End

Lyle J. Goldstein talks about the need for Russia and Ukraine to get along better, and in general for Europe to handle more of its military and foreign affairs without the involvement of the U.S. Much has been made in certain American circles of supposed Russian...

9/27/19 Daniel Lazare on What Trump-Ukraine Is Really About

Daniel Lazare rehashes some of the details of “Russiagate”, focusing on the obvious media malfeasance and bias against President Trump, and the theory that the so-called “intelligence community” was doing everything they could to sabotage him. The latest episode in...

11/30/18 Ted Galen Carpenter on Libya and Ukraine

Ted Carpenter rejoins the show to discuss both of his recent articles for The American Conservative. The first outlines Libya’s political history since the ouster of Gaddafi, in which several promised democratic elections have come and gone. Now politicians are...

12/5/25 William Van Wagenen on Life in Post-Assad Syria

Download Audio. Scott interviews William Van Wagenen about some of the horrific crimes taking place in Syria now that Bin Ladenite Islamists have taken over the country. They explore some of these stories and discuss the level of attention these are getting in the...

12/5/25 Sangar Paykhar on the State of Afghanistan Today

Download Audio. Scott interviews Sangar Paykhar, host of The Afghan Eye Podcast, about where things stand in the country today. They touch on the formation and eventual triumph of the Taliban, their escalating tensions with Pakistan, the status of ISIS-K and more....