Fool’s Errand EPUB Now Available

October 3, 2018

The electronic version of my book is now available on Barnes and Noble, Apple Books (no link, but it’s there on the app), Kobo, Smashwords and very soon will be on Google Play books as well. The paperback and Kindle versions and all these above are the very latest version of the text with some typos fixed and things. So all of you […]

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Trump to Saudi King: Pay Up for US Military Protection!

October 3, 2018

Frustrated by the Saudi refusal to increase oil production by two million barrels per day, President Trump said at a rally yesterday that absent US military protection the Saudi government would not last two weeks. He said the Saudis should “pay up” if they want to remain in charge. Why are oil prices going up? […]

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Ron Paul on The Militarization of the US/China Trade War

October 2, 2018

As often happens, the US trade war with China is heating up and spilling over to the military realm. Recent skirmishes in the South China Sea are just part of the increasing militarization of the dispute. How hot will the dispute get? Is there anyone in the Trump Administration who will cool it down? Watch […]

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Netanyahu’s ‘Nowhere Land’ Blunder

October 2, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave another one of his typical U.N. speeches last week in which he accused Iran of having a “secret atomic warehouse”: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told the United Nations on Thursday that his intelligence agents had discovered a “secret atomic warehouse” in […]

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Blockading Russia? US Interior Secretary’s Dangerous Threat

October 1, 2018

President Trump’s Interior Secretary warned in a recent speech that Russia’s energy sales abroad could be prevented with a US naval blockade. The head of the Russian senate’s foreign affairs committee rightly responded that this would be an act of war. Why is the US so determined to prevent trade and commerce? Why does Washington’s […]

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4,800 Interviews

September 29, 2018

Libertarian foreign policy, mostly… https://scotthorton.org/archives/

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Ron Paul’s Keynote Speech at the Ron Paul Institute Media & War Conference 2018

September 28, 2018

Ron Paul says it all! Here’s the concluding speech from last month’s Ron Paul Institute Media & War conference in Washington, DC. Did you make it to the conference? Hope to see you at a future event. Enjoy Dr. Paul’s speech: Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

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Our Immoral and Irrational Yemen Policy

September 27, 2018

Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Nicholas Kristof has written an excellent column attacking U.S. support for the war on Yemen: The United States is not directly bombing civilians in Yemen, but it is providing arms, intelligence and aerial refueling to assist Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as they hammer Yemen with airstrikes, […]

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Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘Irreconcilable Elements’ Stand in Way of Korean Deal

September 27, 2018

A peace deal will not be concluded among the United States, North Korea, and South Korea in the next three to five years predicts Lawrence Wilkerson, a College of William & Mary professor and the former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a recent interview with host Aaron Maté at The […]

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Will Congress Finally Pull the Plug on Brutal Yemen War?

September 27, 2018

Three years of Saudis dropping American bombs on Yemeni civilians is starting to get noticed in Congress. A requirement in the defense authorization bill that the Administration certify that the Saudis were at least not trying to kill civilians was put into place and now a new piece of legislation seeks to remove the US […]

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