5/20/21 Gareth Porter on the Increasing Power Shift Toward Hard-Liners in Iran

Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the national political scene in Iran, where, in large part thanks to U.S. intervention, the population is increasingly aligning behind the most conservative forces, and moving away from President Rouhani. Iranians, Porter says, have very little trust that America will negotiate in good faith, and there is now less support than ever for the JCPOA, which the Biden administration is supposedly trying to renegotiate. Discussed on the show: "Leak Exposes Fissures in Iranian Establishment and Power Shift to Hard-Liners" (Consortium News) Gareth Porter is an...

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5/20/21 Daniel Larison on Israel’s De Facto Annexation of Palestine

Daniel Larison talks Israel-Palestine. He takes on the common straw man argument that Israel "has a right to defend itself" from the belligerence of its neighbors. In the abstract, of course, every sovereign nation should have the right to self-defense; the problem is that this argument doesn't take any of the history of the conflict into account. The Hamas rocket attacks, Larison explains, have been a response to raids on the al-Aqsa Mosque, which were themselves a reaction to Palestinian protests in solidarity with victims of Israeli settlements. And besides, Israel only pretends that the...

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More Interviews of Me

Take Human Action Bash 2021 - LP Mises Caucus event Scott Horton on the LP, Gaza and Vaccine Passports - Lions of Liberty - starts about 20 minutes in The Continuing Israel/Palestine Conflict w/ Scott Horton - Pete Quinones Afghanistan: graveyard of empires, pundits and profiteers - Crashing the War Party

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5/17/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on American Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s War of Genocide in Yemen

Hassan El-Tayyab discusses the state of the war in Yemen. The Biden administration famously announced in February that it would be ending support for Saudi "offensive operations" in Yemen, including targeting assistance and maintenance on their military equipment. In the last few days, however, the U.S. military has clarified the position: it will, in fact, still be supporting the Saudi air force in its bombing operations, seemingly the most important part of Biden's supposed decision to stop helping them. But leaving that whole issue aside, what's really causing the most devastation on...

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5/13/21 Mike Swanson on the Post-Covid Economic ‘Recovery’

Mike Swanson gives his take on what's in store for the U.S. economy as the covid restrictions begin to lift. Although the early economic recovery isn't looking as rosy as some predicted, many businesses do seem to be getting back to normal as the pandemic subsides. What's much more worrisome, says Swanson, is the sheer amount of money that the government has created over the last year. With trillions of new dollars injected into the economy, it's impossible that we won't see some kind of inflationary consequences sometime soon. Mike Swanson provides investment advice at wallstreetwindow.com...

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5/13/21 Ben Freeman on Saudi Arabia’s Covert Influence in American Politics

Scott interviews Ben Freeman about his research into the Saudi lobby's activity in American politics. Freeman explains that while it's illegal for foreign governments to donate directly to politicians in this country, it's easy to get around these restrictions by hiring firms in the U.S. to make contributions and to lobby on behalf of governments like Saudi Arabia. Freeman has found hundreds of such filings per year, totaling tens of millions of dollars in contributions. He reminds us that all of this activity contributes to painting Saudi Arabia in a positive light while they continue to...

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5/13/21 Max Blumenthal on the Real History of Israel-Palestine

Scott talks to Max Blumenthal about the true state of affairs between Israel and Palestine, which you won't hear about in most mainstream media sources. Although the situation is often depicted as two neighboring states engaged in a religious conflict, the truth is that the Palestinians are second-class citizens in what has become a de facto single apartheid state. The widely-publicized rocket attacks are the actions of an oppressed minority fighting back in the only way they can. Any violence against Israeli civilians is of course condemnable, but we can't lose sight of the fact that Israel...

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