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Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and host of the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He is the author of four books. He has conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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1/17/20 Trita Parsi on Peace in the Middle East Without US Involvement

by Scott Horton | Jan 20, 2020

Trita Parsi explains why he thinks that President Trump's clear signal that he doesn't want to go to war with Iran has sent a message to American allies like Saudi Arabia that they should now pursue diplomacy instead of war. Some assume that without a strong U.S....

1/17/20 Ryan McMaken on America’s Petrodollar Addiction

by Scott Horton | Jan 20, 2020

Ryan McMaken discusses his recent articles for the Mises Institute about the future of U.S. dollar hegemony. He walks us through the dollar's history as global reserve currency, which began in the mid 20th century as an alternative to a direct gold standard. Still,...

1/10/20 Andy Worthington on Closing Guantanamo Bay

by Scott Horton | Jan 13, 2020

Scott talks to Andy Worthington about Guantanamo Bay, where dozens of prisoners are still detained without charges under suspicion of involvement in terrorism. Worthington reminds us that President Obama campaigned on closing the prison, but quickly gave up after...

1/10/20 Grant Smith on the Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board

by Scott Horton | Jan 13, 2020

Grant Smith discusses his new book, The Israel Lobby Enters State Government, which tells the scandalous story of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, a branch of the Virginia state legislature tasked with promoting Israeli business interests in the state. Unlike a...

1/10/20 Gareth Porter on Mike Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident

by Scott Horton | Jan 12, 2020

Gareth Porter joins Scott once again to discuss what he calls Mike Pompeo's "Gulf of Tonkin incident." In the real Gulf of Tonkin incident, McNamara intentionally misled President Johnson in order to incite war between the U.S. and North Vietnam. Porter says that...

1/10/20 Cliff Maloney on Waking Americans up to the Liberty Message

by Scott Horton | Jan 12, 2020

Cliff Maloney of Young Americans for Liberty talks about the disaster of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and how to bring more Americans around to the antiwar position. Luckily, he says, a great majority of people already oppose the wars in Iraq and...