This evening I participated in a discussion on the Philip Kennedy show with Dan McAdams, Justin Pavoni and Kal Molinet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayjqNExEK4Q&feature=youtu.be
The Cost of War
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9/9/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the Ongoing War in Yemen
Nasser Arrabyee is back with an update from Yemen, where civilian casualties resulting from the Saudi-led war there have climbed past 100,000, by even conservative estimates. This number doesn't include any of the people who have died from malnutrition and easily preventable diseases, which surely includes tens if not hundreds of thousands more. Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of yemen-now.com. You can follow him on Twitter @narrabyee. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani;...
Real US Debt Levels Could Be 2,000% of Economy
Is that alot?
John Bolton Fired
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9/6/19 Dan Cohen on Mob Violence and Nativism in Hong Kong
Dan Cohen comes on the show for an update on the protests in Hong Kong. Though positioned as a popular pro-democracy movement, some of the protest leaders have alarming ties to American think tanks like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which may be trying to influence the movement in a direction that will benefit U.S. interests in the end. Cohen says the protesters certainly have good grounds for their outrage, but that we should be careful fully supporting a cause whose motives and aims aren't exactly clear. Discussed on the show: "Behind a made-for-TV Hong Kong protest narrative,...
9/6/19 Giorgio Cafiero on Israel’s Attacks on Iraq and the War in Yemen
Giorgio Cafiero comes back on the show to talk about how the utter disaster of America and its allies' policies in the Middle East for the last 20 years. It seems like at every turn America's wars—ostensibly undertaken to make the region free of terrorism and safe for democracy—have done nothing but strengthen our "enemies" and make the position of our allies more precarious. Unless U.S. war planners start to learn the lesson of blowback, says Cafiero, they are doomed to keep making the mistakes of the past. Discussed on the show: "Behind Israel’s Bombing in Iraq’s Heartland" (Consortium...
9/6/19 Melissa Etehad on the Real Toll of US Sanctions on Iran
Scott talks to Melissa Etehad about the effects of U.S. sanctions on ordinary Iranians. The "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran is meant to inflict suffering on the whole country in order to pressure its government into meeting America's demands. Unfortunately, it is poor civilians who bear most of the brunt of these policies, and it's not at all clear whether the pressure on the government actually works. At the moment, both the Trump administration and the government of Iran seem equally obstinate. Discussed on the show: "Middle-class Iranians resort to buying rotting produce as U.S....
Trump the Big Deal Maker
Bloomberg man reminds us that Trump has failed to deliver a deal on Korea, China, Afghanistan, Palestine or Iran.
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