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7/27/21 Dave DeCamp: Recent Updates on America’s Forever Wars

by Scott Horton | Jul 28, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about what's going on in the various corners of America's would-be empire. In Afghanistan, as predicted, the Taliban have been making gains against the Afghan government as the U.S. military withdraws—but the Biden administration's withdrawal is still tepid, as they plan to keep a small number of troops to protect the embassy and to keep funding the Afghan military until at least 2022. In Iraq, things might be even worse, since DeCamp thinks the recent announcement that the U.S. is ending its "combat mission" is nothing more than a PR move that redefines the...

Ford Fischer: Johnny Hurley: the anarchist concealed carrier who stopped a mass shooting – Documentary

by Scott Horton | Jul 26, 2021 | Blog

Hero saves, is killed by his security force https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPlGvgDbLv0&t=1s

7/25/21 Mark Curtis on Britain’s Secret Role in Syria and Yemen

by Scott Horton | Jul 26, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews journalist Mark Curtis about his investigations into the UK role in the wars in Syria and Yemen. Regarding Yemen, Britain has long denied any involvement in that war, says Curtis, but it's now been revealed that they, like the U.S., have been helping the Saudi coalition for years. The precise nature of the help the British government is giving isn't exactly clear, but it likely involves the same things the Americans have been doing all along: training Saudi troops, assisting them with bomb targeting and providing weapons and spare parts, without which they could never wage...

7/19/21 Peter McCormack on the Bitcoin Revolution Taking the World by Storm

by Scott Horton | Jul 19, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Peter McCormack discusses the latest developments in the world of Bitcoin. The most important news is that El Salvador moved to make Bitcoin legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar, which McCormack says is huge for its viability as a mainstream currency. Bitcoin should help to solve several problems that have long plagued El Salvador's economy, and other Latin American countries may well follow suit. More and more people are also spending and accepting Bitcoin around the world, rather than just using it as an investment, especially as payment networks get better. Of course, the U.S....

7/16/21 Ron Enzweiler: Requiem for America’s Ineffectual War State

by Scott Horton | Jul 18, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Ron Enzweiler discusses the unlearned lessons of America's wasteful and doomed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. First of all, he says, we should have known that the only thing keeping Iraq together was Saddam Hussein's stranglehold on power, which prevented a civil war from breaking out. After the United States deposed him, explains Enzweiler, those tensions were going to bubble over no matter what. The best thing to do now would be to leave Iraq as soon as possible, but stubborn superstitions like the "safe haven" myth and the idea that President Obama pulled troops out too quickly make it...

7/16/21 Doug Bandow on the Calls for Intervention in Haiti and a Cold War With China

by Scott Horton | Jul 18, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Doug Bandow about the recent assassination of Haiti's president and the ensuing calls for U.S. intervention. Bandow warns about the perils of interventions like this, even when they are seemingly justified by the noble cause of humanitarianism. In Haiti in particular, he says, a history of disastrous foreign intervention is fresh in people's minds, and any military response is likely to backfire. Luckily, Bandow doesn't think Biden is especially keen on responding to the calls for intervention in this case. Similarly, in the case of China, where the more hawkish members of...

7/16/21 Dave DeCamp on Iraq, Iran and US Withdrawal from the Middle East

by Scott Horton | Jul 18, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about some of the latest stories at antiwar.com. Recently, says DeCamp, it's been reported that Iran was urging Iraqi militias not to retaliate against the U.S., after they'd been the target of airstrikes by the Biden administration. Needless to say, this doesn't exactly comport with the mainstream narrative about Iran, and you won't see stories like this widely covered. Dave and Scott go on to discuss a rumored American withdrawal from Iraq and wrap up with an update on the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran surrounding a reinstatement of the nuclear deal....

7/16/21 Branko Marcetic on the Julian Assange Media Blackout

by Scott Horton | Jul 17, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Branko Marcetic discusses the stunning lack of mainstream media coverage of Julian Assange's case. Besides being the right thing to do, since Assange has heroically helped expose heinous crimes by many of the world's governments, journalists also have a selfish reason to care about Assange's plight: what he does at WikiLeaks is not categorically different from what any of them does when covering stories that originated from leaked documents. And yet nearly everyone in the press seems content to let Assange rot in solitary confinement. Discussed on the show: "The Julian Assange Media Blackout...