by Scott | Jan 19, 2022 | Interviews
Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News returns to the show to follow up about the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Although the plot made national headlines when 14 militia members were arrested, Bensinger and fellow journalists dug deeper to find a...
by Scott | Aug 17, 2021 | Interviews
Scott talks to Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News about the role of FBI informants in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Bensinger explains that informants played a heavy role in the militia group involved and helped motivate members to take violent...
by Scott | Jun 24, 2021 | Interviews
Scott interviews Ben Suitt about his work about veteran suicides for Brown University’s Cost of War Project. Suitt conservatively estimates that about 30,000 veterans of America’s terror wars have taken their own lives, a truly astonishing number. This...
by Scott | Aug 5, 2020 | Interviews
Ray McGovern joins the show to talk about Colin Powell and Mike Pompeo: two credentialed, respected members of the foreign policy establishment that have both been hugely damaging to American interests. McGovern first responds to the claim that Powell unwaveringly and...
by Scott | Jun 10, 2020 | Interviews
Kelley Vlahos discusses the scandalous ties between the arms industry and the American government, starting with the fact that so many members of the Defense Department are former employees of top arms firms like Raytheon, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman—and vice...
by Scott | Jun 10, 2020 | Interviews
Scott and Matt Agorist discuss the recent protests against police brutality that have swept through cities across the nation. Both agree that America’s police are in serious need of reform, though see deficiencies in the proposed solutions of movements like Black...
by Scott | May 26, 2020 | Interviews
Max Blumenthal discusses the outrageous treatment of Julian Assange during his time at the Ecuadorian embassy in London over the last few years, and since his arrest last year. Blumenthal has reported on the extensive spying Assange was subjected to at the embassy,...
by Scott | May 19, 2020 | Interviews
Scott interviews Ben Freeman about his report, “The Qatar Lobby in Washington D.C.” Freeman goes over the recent history of Qatar’s efforts to influence U.S. policy, including their apparent success in winning over the Trump administration to their side in a dispute...
by Scott | May 19, 2020 | Interviews
Scott talks to Aaron Maté about the latest developments in the apparent OPCW cover-up of their investigation into the alleged Douma chemical attack. It is now clear, based on recently leaked documents, that OPCW leadership lied about expert analyst Ian Henderson, who...
by Scott | Apr 19, 2020 | Interviews
Scott talks with Ramzy Baroud about the ongoing crisis for Palestinians in the West Bank, and in particular in the Gaza Strip, who face forced confinement and military occupation as parts of their daily lives. Baroud is reminded of the partial quarantine most...
by Scott | Oct 20, 2018 | Interviews
Ben Freeman explains why and how Saudi Arabia has so much influence in U.S. politics. Even though it’s illegal for foreigners to donate to American political campaigns, he explains that it is perfectly legal for them to hire a lobbying firm in Washington, which can...
by Scott | Jan 27, 2014 | Fair Use Articles
[Having recently received a 404 error at the IASPS site’s version of this piece, I figured it better be saved from the Google cache before it’s gone forever. -Scott] Companion piece “A Clean Break” is here. For related reading: “Balance...
by Scott | Jan 16, 2014 | Fair Use Articles
by Richard Cummings, Playboy.com January 16th, 2007 In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, asked Bruce Jackson to meet with him in the White House. They met in Hadley’s office on the ground floor of the West Wing, not far from...
by Scott | Jan 12, 2014 | Fair Use Articles
To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World War I] brought a sense of the sanctity of the State which, if they had had time to think about it, would have seemed a sudden and surprising alteration in their habits of thought. In...
by | Aug 13, 2007 | Stress Blog
Everyone is talking about “How a ’Good War’ in Afghanistan Went Bad” in yesterday’s NYT – but what stands out for me is that in a 7-page article on Afghanistan, there’s not one mention of heroin, opium, or even poppies. As a companion...
by Scott | Jul 29, 2006 | Stress Blog
Some guy goes into a Jewish business in Seattle, and murders one innocent woman and wounds five others. What’s his excuse? He’s “mad at Israel.” Well, I have some news for you genius: None of those six people were “Israel.” Nor all...
by Scott | Feb 11, 2006 | Fair Use Articles
I. The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a...
by PNAC | Feb 17, 2005 | pnac
February 17, 2005 MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERS FROM: GARY SCHMITT SUBJECT: Democracy in Russia I would like to draw your attention to the following testimony of Bruce P. Jackson, President of the Project on Transitional Democracies and a director of the Project for...
by Scott | May 20, 2004 | Fair Use Articles
The Year is 2004. –It is a year before PM Ariel Sharon “disengages” from Gaza –Two years before Hamas wins a plurality in the election W. Bush forced them to hold –Three years before Elliot Abrams’ failed coup which led to Hamas kicking the PA out of...
by Scott | Jan 1, 2001 | Fair Use Articles
by Col. Douglas A. Macgregor, ORBIS, January 2001 American foreign policy in the past century has frequently been shaped not by the realities confronted by diplomats and soldiers, but by an idealistic longing to remake the world in the United States’ own image....
