by Scott | Apr 10, 2007 | Stress Blog
Atrios (Via Lew Rockwell) has caught the Washington Post attempting to lie you into another war. I had noticed a funny thing to make it into print in today’s Antiwar.com top story from the Christian Science Monitor while reading it on my radio show this morning....
by Scott | Jun 24, 2006 | Stress Blog
The Post page 16 last Sunday: “Just after the lightning takeover of Baghdad by U.S. forces three years ago, an unusual two-page document spewed out of a fax machine at the Near East bureau of the State Department. It was a proposal from Iran for a broad dialogue...
by Scott | May 25, 2006 | Stress Blog
by Gareth Porter Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel’s 1967 borders, according to the secret Iranian proposal to the United...
by Scott | Feb 23, 2006 | Stress Blog
Historian Gareth Porter explains, “How the Neocons Sabotaged Iran’s Help on al-Qaeda,” “The United States and Iran were on a course to work closely together on the war against al-Qaeda and its Taliban sponsors in Afghanistan in late 2001 and...
by Scott | Feb 18, 2021 | Interviews
Scott talks to Mike Swanson about some of the problems in the U.S. economy and what we can expect in the near future. Scott points out the emerging real estate booms in places like Austin, Texas, as wealthy residents of states with severe lockdowns seek relief in...
by Scott | Dec 23, 2020 | Interviews
Scott interviews Ted Carpenter about his recent coverage of America’s sanctions policies around the world. Carpenter begins by explaining that economic sanctions are both ineffective and inhumane. For one thing, the theory that when a population is pressed hard enough...
by Scott | Oct 13, 2020 | Interviews
Scott interviews Daniel Davis about his new book, Eleventh Hour in 2020 America, which explores the unhealthy expansion of the U.S. military over the last few decades, to the point that America’s very future as a democratic republic is at risk. Davis begins the...
by Scott | Aug 16, 2020 | Interviews
Scott talks to Dan McAdams about the precarious situation in Belarus, where some western agitators are seeking to use the country’s recent presidential elections as an excuse to foment and support a revolution. McAdams reminds us that although Belarus’ president,...
by Scott | Jul 15, 2020 | Interviews
Bas Spliet is back to discuss the disaster that was America and the UN’s involvement in Libya after 2011’s Arab Spring. Spliet reminds us that Libya was once one of the wealthiest countries in north Africa, ruled by a secular dictator with relative liberty and...
by Scott | Feb 11, 2020 | Interviews
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the many catastrophic failures of American foreign policy, and most recently the proposed plan to carve out an autonomous Sunni region in western Iraq, which the U.S. could use to help control the Middle East and prevent Iranian...
by Scott | Nov 7, 2019 | Scott Horton's Articles
Reprinted from Antiwar.com. It’s pretty obvious. Americans should support the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump, but not for Ukrainegate. In fact, they should oppose his impeachment on Ukrainegate grounds completely. Trump’s real offense is...
by Scott | Sep 22, 2019 | Interviews
Ted Carpenter’s new book explains why NATO is both obsolete and dangerous for world peace. Its obsolescence is clear: NATO was founded as an alliance against the Soviet Union, which hasn’t existed for thirty years. It’s dangerous because continued NATO expansion into...
by Scott | May 16, 2019 | Interviews
Andrew Cockburn comes back on the show to discuss his recent piece, “The Military-Industrial Virus.” Cockburn describes how the war planners, and even many of the officers, don’t care all that much about the men they’re sending off to fight and die in America’s wars....
by Scott | Mar 29, 2019 | Interviews
Phil Giraldi talks about his recent article, “An Iranian April Surprise?” and the possibility of America provoking a war with Iran. President Trump withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal, the purpose of which was to take pretense for war off the table. Now the neocons...
by Scott | Jun 7, 2010 | Interviews
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the reports emerging from flotilla activists released from Israeli custody, why the fleeting nature of media news cycles may defeat efforts to debunk Israel’s propaganda blitz and the missing-in-action...
by Scott | Oct 2, 2007 | Stress Blog
What Bob said, that’s how I feel about the betrayal of of the American people by the lowest form of life on earth: The Democratic Congress. (Not that I ever thought they were anything but the worst people in the world, you understand.) The Democrats, led by Reid...