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10/9/20 William Smith: How Empire is Destroying the American Republic

by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to William Smith about the threat to republican government posed by America's growing world empire. The founders of this country, Smith explains, knew that perpetual war would lead to the uncontrolled growth of government power, and that meddling in foreign affairs would lead to decline and ruin at home. More recently, Eisenhower warned about the same things in his celebrated military-industrial complex speech. In a recent piece, Smith warns about the use in the 2020 presidential campaign of an artificial intelligence tool originally developed for counter-insurgency tactics in...

10/9/20 Harry Kazianis on Peace with North Korea

by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Harry Kazianis about America's relationship with North Korea. Kazianis argues past much of the noise surrounding the effort to get North Korea to denuclearize, proposing instead that America actually could tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea, just like we do most of the other countries that have them. Kazianis reminds us that nuclear weapons for North Korea are primarily about survival for the Kim family; the U.S. simply does not go to war with nuclear-armed countries. Accepting this fact, he says we should just do everything we can to make peace with the North Koreans and...

10/9/20 Matt Welch: The Case Against Donald Trump

by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Reason Magazine's Matt Welch follows up on Scott's Jacob Sullum interview with his own case against Donald Trump. The clearest point to hit Trump on, says Welch, is probably his complete abandonment of curtailing government spending, as he has presided over the biggest budgets in American history. Welch also notes that despite Trump's foreign policy rhetoric—which, he admits, has done a good job moving Republican voters toward the anti-war position—he has done fairly little to actually bring troops home and end America's endless wars. Finally, Trump's trade policies have accomplished little...

10/9/20 Jacob Sullum: The Case Against Joe Biden

by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Reason Magazine's Jacob Sullum discusses the case against Joe Biden, including his record on crime, the war in Iraq and the surveillance state. Sullum focuses on Biden's history as a "tough on crime" democrat, explaining the ways Biden worked closely with senate Republicans during the 1980s to pass laws creating differential sentencing for crack and powder cocaine, establishing mandatory minimums and abolishing parole. Sullum says that Biden wanted to position himself as a moderate, who could attract conservative voters and even attack Republicans from the right. Any reconsideration of his...

The Bill Hicks Channel Has Posted A Ton of Unseen Stuff Lately

by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2020 | Blog

So go and look at it. https://youtu.be/xNzWAbkwS7U

Upcoming Speech

by Scott Horton | Oct 10, 2020 | Blog

I'll be doing an event with Dan McKnight, Danny Sjursen and BringOurTroopsHome.us at Gen. Smedley Butler's grave in West Chester, Pennsylvania on October 19th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmiMuFgWGjI&feature=youtu.be