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Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom 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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11/30/18 Nozomi Hayase on Julian Assange

by Scott Horton | Dec 3, 2018

Nozomi Hayase joins the show to talk about Wikileaks, given all the recent news about Julian Assange. Hayase explains Assange's background and the founding of Wikileaks, arguing that its mission is critical for a free society today. If leakers and whistleblowers...

11/30/18 Sheldon Richman on Immigration and the Drug War

by Scott Horton | Dec 2, 2018

Sheldon Richman talks about the latest with the migrant caravan and President Trump's reaction to it. He points out how odd it is for Trump supporters to justify all the bad things he does by saying "Obama did it too". Wouldn't that mean they should either love Obama...

11/30/18 Ted Galen Carpenter on Libya and Ukraine

by Scott Horton | Dec 1, 2018

Ted Carpenter rejoins the show to discuss both of his recent articles for The American Conservative. The first outlines Libya's political history since the ouster of Gaddafi, in which several promised democratic elections have come and gone. Now politicians are...

11/30/18 David Vine on Closing U.S. Military Bases

by Scott Horton | Nov 30, 2018

David Vine makes the case that the U.S.'s roughly 800 military bases in over 130 countries are harmful not only to those countries' interests, but to America's own self-interest as well. His movement seeks to bring together people from all parties to force political...

11/27/18 George Joseph on the Rise in Federal Gun Prosecutions

by Scott Horton | Nov 29, 2018

Journalist George Joseph talks to Scott about the significant ramp up in federal gun prosecutions during Jeff Sessions' tenure, and continuing even now that he's gone. The idea behind his program was to target the "trigger-pulling" criminals, but in reality it targets...

11/27/18 Hunter DeRensis on the Bankruptcy of the American Empire

by Scott Horton | Nov 28, 2018

Hunter DeRensis joins the show to talk about his recent article for the American Conservative Magazine. He cites Stein's law, named for economist Herbert Stein, which says that if something can't go on forever, it will stop. This seems obvious, but people frequently...