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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

12/2/21 John Dolan (The War Nerd) on the Tigray-Ethiopia War

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Scott is joined by John Dolan who used to write under the names Gary Brecher and The War Nerd. The two discuss a recent article Dolan wrote that lays out the big picture causes and developments in the Tigray-Ethiopia war. Dolan explains the necessary Ethiopian history to set the stage for the war and does his best to piece together what’s happened since it began a year ago. Scott and Dolan also discuss the end of the war in Afghanistan and what a modern American civil war would look like.   Discussed on the show: “The War Nerd: The Tigray-Ethiopia War” (Naked Capitalism) Wore Negari by Mohamed Yimam John Dolan is a poet, novelist, essayist and former academic. He now works with Mark Ames (of eXile fame) to produce the Radio War Nerd weekly podcast on military matters.  This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys check it out December 8th in New York City the Soho Forum is hosting a debate on the resolution.

0:06.0

While vaccine mandates are an infringement on freedom, some are justified due to their big payoff in lives saved.

0:13.6

For the affirmative will be George Mason law professor E.

0:16.6

Le Soman, and for the negative,

0:19.5

our friend Angela McCardle,

0:21.4

chair of the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County, and declared candidate for

0:25.6

National Chair of the Libertarian Party.

0:29.2

The live debate will be at the Sheen Center, and of course, yes, they do have the vaccine restrictions at the Sheen Center and of course yes they do have the vaccine

0:33.1

restrictions at the Sheen Center but they do not at Gene Epstein's

0:37.2

apartment they're going to have a live viewing party at Gene's house so

0:41.6

people who oppose the mandates can watch the debate about the mandates.

0:47.0

And so find out everything you need to know all about it at the Soho Forum.org that's

0:51.4

this December the 8th in New York. All right, shall welcome to the Scott Horton Show.

1:07.0

I'm the Director of the Libertarian Institute, Editorial Director of Anti-War.com, author of the book Pools Arren, Time to End the War in Afghanistan

1:16.4

and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war on terrorism. And I've recorded more

1:21.4

than 5,500 interviews since 2003, almost all on foreign policy and all available

1:28.2

for you at scot Horton.org. You can sign up to the podcast feed there, and the full interview archive is also available at

1:35.4

YouTube.com slash Scott Horton Show.

1:40.8

All right everybody introducing the war nerd John Dolan aka Gary Brecher and

1:46.5

host of radio war nerd and he's the author of Dispatches, which I've read, which is excellent, and also the War nerd Iliad, which I take it is your

2:00.9

retelling of the Iliad, is that right

2:02.6

right welcome back to the show John how you doing

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