11/11/20 David Swanson: Leaving World War II Behind

Scott interviews author and peace activist David Swanson in honor of Veterans' Day, or Armistice Day, as it was originally known. Swanson begins by describing the way World War II has become the justification for just about every use of military force by the United States since then. This particular part of American history has made an impression on many people that war can be necessary and good, and that America can be the world's police force. In a new book, Swanson tries to shift that conversation, both taking his readers back to the circumstances that gave rise to World War II, and also...

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11/6/20 Dave DeCamp on the Foreign Policy of a Biden Administration

With Joe Biden apparently poised to be America's next president, Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about some possible foreign policy changes under the new administration. To begin with, DeCamp worries that Biden will use a recent uptick in violence as an excuse to keep American troops in Afghanistan indefinitely, basically the strategy he advocated as Vice President. On Israel, DeCamp says that Biden was known as one of the strongest zionists in Washington until Trump showed up, and so we can expect very little positive change on that front either. Finally, Scott and DeCamp discuss the conflict in...

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11/6/20 Jeff Deist on the Cancerous Growth of America’s Federal Government

Jeff Deist discusses the idea that the best path forward for America may be some kind of peaceful breakup. He reminds us that America has never truly been one country, the way that, for instance, many small European nations are—and indeed the United States was never really supposed to be a single unified monolith. With such a diversity of culture over such a huge geographical area, a federal government was meant to serve a very limited purpose while leaving most decisions up to the individual states. Deist and Scott see today's culture war as a symptom of an unhealthy and unconstitutional...

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Benefits From Trump’s BS

Trump is trying to pretend the mail-in ballots are somehow a big fraud. No, they're just Democrat-leaning. Maybe telling all his people that mail-in ballots are such a fraud for all these months backfired? Now they're cutting hard for the Democrats. But if Biden wins, at least that means that, according to Nick "Let's Invade Everywhere" Kristoff, “If Biden wins after this poisoning of the chalice, he will inherit a badly divided country after an election that many will deem illegitimate, and it will be harder to govern and more difficult for the United States to exert influence around the...

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Live Stream Tonight

Join me, Zooey, Diego Rivera and some friends for our election night coverage tonight at my youtube channel at somewhere around 7 PM Texas time: YouTube.com/scotthortonshow part one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODQSAnAL64 part two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiyBDeWd1cY

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