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5/15/20 Danny Sjursen on America’s Long Involvement in Somalia

by Scott Horton | May 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Danny Sjursen talks about America's long history of intervention in Somalia, beginning after World War II, continuing during the Cold War, and persisting today through the War on Terror. Too often, he says, the mainstream narrative around U.S. interventions starts right before the current terrorist attack, regime change, or civilian uprising, and most people miss decades of crucial history. In the case of Somalia, America and its allies in the UN supported various regimes through the 80s and 90s, ultimately helping to create two devastating famines in the 2000s that led to hundreds of...

Matt Taibbi: Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties

by Scott Horton | May 16, 2020 | Blog

I know. It's hard to believe the guys who hired the Delta Force to burn the Branch Davidians to death, banned AR-15s, voted for the PATRIOT Act, colluded with Bush on spying and torture and war, let Obama get away with deliberately murdering American citizens and launching wars without any sort of authorization at all would finally give up the pretense that they care about civil liberties just because of partisanship against Trump, but here we are. (And hard disagree about Obama using FISA against Israeli agents in the U.S.. If it has a legitimate use, that's it.)

Dave Smith Interviews Me About #Obamagate

by Scott Horton | May 16, 2020 | Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XXNs2hJT1A

5/11/20 Ramzy Baroud on 100 Years of Israeli Annexation and Ethnic Cleansing

by Scott Horton | May 14, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Ramzy Baroud discusses the 100-year history of Jewish Zionism, which has resulted in a century of Palestinians being subjugated, killed, and forced off of their land. Palestinians have sometimes been criticized for not accepting the offer made at the time of the Balfour Declaration to keep about 45% of their land, with critics painting them as intransigent terrorists who refuse to negotiate reasonably or peacefully. Baroud explains how absurd it would be to imagine Americans, or any other people, meekly accepting the annexation of even 1% of their land, let alone over half of it. Today...

Florida Officer Fired For Hiding During Parkland Shooting Gets Job Back, With Back-pay!

by Scott Horton | May 14, 2020 | Blog

NY Post: A sheriff’s sergeant fired for hiding behind his car during the Parkland school massacre has gotten his job back — along with at least $125,000 in back pay, according to reports. Sgt. Brian Miller was one of four deputies terminated for “neglect of duty” after the 2018 slaughter at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 students and faculty members dead and another 17 injured. Miller had been the first supervisor on scene — but put on his bulletproof vest and hid behind his car, not even going on his radio for 10 minutes, rather than taking command, a state...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Wisconsin’s Stay-At-Home Order

by Scott Horton | May 14, 2020 | Blog

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down Gov. Tony Evers' order shutting down daily life to limit the spread of coronavirus — marking the first time a statewide order of its kind has been knocked down by a court of last resort. The state's highest court sided with Republican lawmakers Wednesday in a decision that curbed the power of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration to act unilaterally during public health emergencies.

Cop Kills Man

by Scott Horton | May 13, 2020 | Blog

An Austinite. An innocent Austinite. Now they finally admit he had no gun at all, much less was threatening anyone. I bet you $100,000,000 the guilty murderer cop gets away with it too.

5/11/20 Patrick Cockburn on the Real Crisis Facing Iraq

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

Patrick Cockburn discusses Iraq’s increasingly desperate economic outlook as oil prices remain at historic lows. Iraq’s economy, like many of those in the Middle East, is hugely reliant on oil, with millions directly on a government payroll that depends almost entirely on the oil market in order to remain solvent. Worsening conditions could endanger an already fraught political environment in a country that continues to battle the remnants of an ISIS insurgency in the western part of the country. Discussed on the show: “Iraq will be hit harder by the oil price drop than by...