I recently appeared on the Scott Horton Show to talk about my recent appearance on RT discussing how the U.S. weaponizes the dollar and uses the SWIFT payment system as a foreign policy billy club, along with attempts by Voice of America’s “fact-checking” arm to debunk my claims.

Scott and I opened the discussion talking about Voice of America’s abysmal attempt to rebut my assertion that the U.S. plays dangerous foreign policy games with the SWIFT payment system. That led to a broader discussion about U.S. foreign policy.

The United States government uses the pressure of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency to get its way in foreign policy. One method is by forcing the global SWIFT payment system to lock out countries that don’t want to play ball with the American world order. As Scott pointed out, daring to utter this forbidden truth will get you smeared by the mainstream media as an “isolationist.”

In reality, I just don’t want the U.S. military to intervene in everyone’s wars—a position that is consistent with America’s founding principles, but that the mainstream cannot tolerate.

Mike Maharrey