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9/11/20 Josiah Lippincott: the Wholesale Slaughter of Japanese Civilians in WWII

by | Sep 14, 2020 | ,

Scott interviews Josiah Lippincott about the conventional narrative surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The common argument, says Lippincott, is that the U.S. had no real choice but to drop the bombs, since the alternative would have been a ground invasion that ultimately would have cost many more lives. In reality, he explains, the Japanese had been willing to negotiate for months, but the American government, insisting on an unconditional surrender, wouldn't concede Japan's only demand, which was to let the emperor remain on the throne. Ironically, after...

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Holy Crap. This Story Better Be Wrong.

by | Sep 14, 2020 |

‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting “jarring medical neglect” within the facility, including a refusal to test detainees for the novel coronavirus and an exorbitant rate of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women. The nurse, Dawn Wooten, was employed at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, which is operated by LaSalle...

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‘I’m Shooting Him, I Need a Paid Vacation’

by | Sep 14, 2020 |

That's right, you bootlicking little worms. That's what your heroic thin blue line thinks of you. Killing you is how they get paid time off. Because they know that there will be no accountability because all of the bootlicking little worms out there who will always race to defend their criminal overlords. Here's another example of your heroes in action: Innocent 74-year-old Grandmother Strip Searched in Public After Cops Claimed to Smell Weed Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen, you pathetic...

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9/11/20 Aaron Maté on the Deep State’s Many ‘Russiagate’ Lies

by | Sep 14, 2020 |

Aaron Maté revisits the many lies on which the 'Russiagate' probe into Donald Trump's campaign and presidency was founded. Maté calls the whole story what it is: a conspiracy theory. The only way someone could find all the far-fetched and flimsy pieces of evidence credible is if they were already convinced beforehand and had to make every new development fit their narrative. In particular, Maté focuses on the way figures like Joseph Mifsud and George Papadopoulos, though initially the entire basis for the FBI's probe into Trump's campaign, were quickly abandoned as the allegations became...

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9/11/20 Trita Parsi: What Trump’s Iraq Troop Withdrawal Means for Ending America’s Wars

by | Sep 14, 2020 |

Trita Parsi discusses President Trump's recent announcement of a troop withdrawal from Iraq. Parsi is hesitant to fully endorse this move, explaining that while troop reductions are obviously good, such individual tactical moves, in order to be truly effective, must be part of a larger strategy of peace. Trump, instead, has repeatedly escalated tensions in other regions, even as he withdraws troops elsewhere, with the result that his foreign policy often results in, at best, a net wash for detente. Discussed on the show: "What Trump’s troop withdrawal from Iraq means for ending America’s...

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9/11/20 Paul Robinson on the ‘Russiagate’ Narrative that Refuses to Die

by | Sep 14, 2020 |

Scott talks to Paul Robinson about yet another round of claims that President Trump colluded with Russia to disingenuously win the 2016 election. This time, what's at issue is a trove of emails from Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort from his time working as a consultant in Ukraine. Manafort's ties to Ukraine have long been labeled suspect by the Democrats and the corporate media because they supposedly connect him, by extension, to the Russian government. But Robinson explains that while working with former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Manafort was actually advancing strongly...

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Russian Bounties Hoax Remains Unproved Because It’s Obvious Bullshit

by | Sep 14, 2020 |

NBC (CIA asset Ken Dilanian): Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of US CENTCOM, spoke with NBC News about the matter. “It just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me,” McKenzie said. “We continue to look for that evidence. I just haven’t seen it yet.” An unnamed military intelligence official also told NBC News that after reviewing the intelligence of attacks on US forces in Afghanistan over the past several years, none had been linked to any Russian bounty payments. In other news, anonymous sources say there is a report that says that Charlie Savage may have retired from...

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Prosecutors: The Worst Criminals in Our Society

by | Sep 14, 2020 |

From the Center on Wrongful Convictions (Imagine for a moment that this was about your mom or sister or wife): We are writing with the wonderful news that we have come to the end of the long road towards the exoneration of Ernestine “Tina” Jimerson, the first case that came to what was then the Center on Wrongful Convictions Women’s Project. On Thursday, the Dallas County Circuit Court signed an order dismissing Tina’s case on a motion from the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office! We have circulated the details of this complex case several times, so we won’t re-tell them here. But as a reminder,...

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Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He's the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool's Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan, editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 and the 2022 book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.


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