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 | Aug 26, 2019 | Interviews
Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about the effects of war on American culture. They discuss the fact that America has been at war almost constantly for its entire history, ever since the nation was formed by overthrowing the British. Having an external enemy supposedly...
by Scott | Jul 8, 2019 | Scott Horton's Articles
Reprinted from Antiwar.com. America is still fighting the last war. I admit to having a bit of the same problem. I’m now working on a new book to follow-up my previous one about the war in Afghanistan. The tentative title is Enough Already: Time to End the War on...
by Scott | Dec 27, 2018 | Interviews
Doug Bandow joins the show to talk about all four of his recent articles, covering China, Cuba, Yemen, and Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan. The entire foreign policy establishment is melting down over the announcement, but Bandow says...
by Scott | Dec 6, 2018 | Interviews
Journalist Barry Lando talks about the history of American hostilities in Iraq, beginning with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of the oil fields of Kuwait after Kuwait refused to forgive Saddam’s debts from his war against Iran. Lando explains that Saddam had been led to...
by Scott | Jan 26, 2018 | Interviews
Peter Lee, aka @chinahand, returns to the show to discuss his new documentary General Douglas MacArthur’s Conspiracy To Start A War With China. Lee describes the history of U.S.-China tensions dating back to the 1950s, MacArthur’s trigger happy attitude...
by Scott | Aug 21, 2014 | Interviews
John J. Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, discusses his article “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin.” Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Scott | Jun 9, 2014 | Interviews
Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist, discusses the 47th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. He also discusses the Iraq War, official liars from Rumsfeld to Kerry, Chelsea Manning’s whistleblowing, Ukraine, Russia, etc....
by Scott | Aug 4, 2013 | Fair Use Articles
Chapter 1. The Tonkin Gulf: August 1964 Daniel Ellsberg. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Penguin, 2003. On Tuesday morning, August 4, 1964, my first full day on my new job in the Pentagon, a courier came into the outer office with an urgent cable...
by Scott | Jul 1, 2013 | Scott Horton's Articles
By Scott Horton Future of Freedom Foundation Are America’s disasters abroad a result of stupidity or some elaborate plan? An observer of modern U.S. foreign policy can be torn on that one. It makes sense that generals, contractors, and other national-security state...
by Scott | Dec 7, 2012 | Interviews
Robert Stinnett, author of Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, discusses the evidence that FDR provoked the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor (8-point plan), had forewarning that the attack was coming (radio intercepts, code-breaking), and willingly...
by Scott | Sep 9, 2012 | Stress Blog
Chapter 1. The Tonkin Gulf: August 1964 Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets. Penguin, 2003. On Tuesday morning, August 4, 1964, my first full day on my new job in the Pentagon, a courier came into the outer office with an urgent cable for my boss. He’d been running. The...
by Scott | Dec 7, 2011 | Interviews
Robert Stinnett, author of Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, discusses how he found the McCollum memo outlining the FDR administration’s eight step plan to provoke a Japanese attack while searching through the National Archives; the radio...
by Scott | Aug 25, 2011 | Interviews
Lew Rockwell, founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses why Ron Paul is the first real peace candidate for president since Eugene McCarthy in 1968; the prime importance of foreign policy, since waging imperial wars abroad inevitably harms...
by Scott | Dec 7, 2010 | Interviews
Robert Stinnett, author of Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, discusses how FDR provoked and allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in order to rally the American people to support US entry in WWII; the provocative McCollum memo that proposed an...
by Scott | Nov 24, 2010 | Interviews
David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, discusses the lies routinely made before, during and after a war; how FDR provoked and allowed the Pearl Harbor attack out of desperation to get the US into WWII; the contradictory narratives required to convince both the Left...
by Scott | Nov 11, 2010 | Interviews
Jim Powell, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Wilson’s War: How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II, discusses how US entry into WWI broke a three year stalemate and gave the allied forces a decisive...
by Scott | Apr 7, 2010 | Interviews
Independent journalist Dahr Jamail discusses the common occurrence of unprovoked US military violence like the incident revealed by Wikileaks, Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s two-month window to eliminate the competition and stay in power, the inability of...
by Scott | Apr 5, 2010 | Stress Blog
Warning: Very Disturbing Footage July 12, 2007 From CollateralMurder.com: WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff....
by Scott | Mar 7, 2010 | Stress Blog
Okay, we all know there can never be such thing as a law that provides for people who have brown skin and believe in Islam having the ability to seek remedy in American courts for torture at the hands of the U.S. military or CIA. But what about two white, American,...
