Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane to talk about the alleged Chinese balloon that captured the American news cycle a week ago. MacFarlane wrote a piece for the Libertarian Institute digging into the details and arguing against the fearmongering that has predictably resulted. Scott and MacFarlane talk about this story as well as the broader Cold War with China.

Discussed on the show:

“An Overblown Balloon Headline Inflates False Narrative on China” (Libertarian Institute)

“Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines? "Russia, Russia, Russia!" (Racket [formerly TK News])

“Rep. McCaul Plans Taiwan Visit This Spring, McCarthy Later” (Antiwar.com)

Wilson’s War by Jim Powell

Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute where he advocates a noninterventionist foreign policy. He is a Wisconsin attorney in private practice. His work has appeared on antiwar.com and Zerohedge. Follow him on Twitter @patmacfarlane_

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Scott Horton Episodes Around February 12, 2023

1/12/23 Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, Russiagate and Government Censorship

1/13/23 Andy Worthington: The US is Still Running an Illegal Prison at Guantanamo Bay

1/13/23 Hunter DeRensis on Defend The Guard in 2023

1/13/23 Bjorn Handeen on Using Local Politics to End the Wars

1/19/23 Branko Marcetic: Cables Expose Washington’s NATO Expansion Lies

1/19/23 Ara Sanjian Explains the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

1/26/23 David Swanson on What Russia Could Have Done Instead of Invading Ukraine

1/26/23 Kyle Anzalone on Escalations over Ukraine and Zelensky’s “Anti-Corruption” Measures

1/27/23 Ted Snider: Were the Minsk Agreements a Lie?

1/27/23 Eric Margolis on the Rush to All Out War Over Ukraine

1/27/23 Ryan McMaken on How the Fed Is Ripping Us Off

1/27/23 James Bamford on the Many Failures of American Counterintelligence

1/27/23 Arthur Bloom on Don Reynolds and the Fast and Furious Scandal

1/27/23 Ted Snider on the Missed Opportunities to Avoid War in Ukraine

2/9/23 Dave DeCamp on the Bombshell Story about how Biden Bombed Nord Stream

2/10/23 Patrick MacFarlane on the Balloon Panic

2/10/23 Daniel Davis on the Russian Offensive and Other Developments in Ukraine

2/16/23 Max Blumenthal: Why You Should Come to the Antiwar Rally in DC This Sunday

2/17/23 Kyle Anzalone on the War in Ukraine, the Derailment in Ohio and the Balloon Panic

2/17/23 Kit Klarenberg Refutes Myths About the Bosnian War

2/17/23 Bill Buppert: A Deep Dive into Irregular Warfare

2/19/23 - Scott's Speech at the Rage Against The War Machine protest

2/23/23 Andrew Cockburn: How the Media Failed Julian Assange

2/23/23 Connor Freeman on Ukraine, Nord Stream and China

2/24/23 Seymour Hersh: How and Why America Blew Up Nord Stream

2/24/23 Michael Tracey on His Experience at the Munich Security Conference

2/24/23 Jonathan Ofir on the Israeli Elites Warning of Apartheid

2/24/23 Chas Freeman: America Needs to Use Diplomacy

2/24/23 Ray McGovern Dissects the Official Reaction to Hersh’s Nord Stream Revelations

2/27/23 Trita Parsi: Biden Opens the Door to War in the Middle East

3/2/23 Dave DeCamp on the Blinken-Lavrov Chat, the Ukraine War and Sanctions on Syria

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