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...
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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...
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...
10/2/20 Andy Worthington on His Assange Extradition Hearing Testimony
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Andy Worthington about his testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Worthington reminds us how important the revelations in Chelsea Manning's Guantanamo Files leak were, stressing just how much harm has been done to the dozens of men held,...
10/2/20 Danny Sjursen on the Latest Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen explains the complicated situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, a piece of Azerbaijani territory that has been under de facto Armenian control since the 1990s. Nagorno-Karabakh is the result of Stalin's territorial divisions, which very often failed to conform...
10/2/20 Jeffrey Kaye: Proof of American Biological Warfare in Korea
by Scott Horton | Oct 4, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Jeffrey Kaye about his bombshell report on U.S. war crimes during the Korean War. For decades, Kaye says, the narrative advanced by America and the UN has been that although Japan, our ally, is known to have conducted experiments in chemical and...
10/2/20 Nicolas Davies on America’s Culpability for the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Oct 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Nicolas Davies about America's continuing role in the war in Yemen. Although the Trump administration has ended some of the more direct involvement like mid-air refueling of Saudi bombers, Saudi Arabia still very much relies on our help to wage its war...
10/2/20 Patrick Cockburn on his Testimony in the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Oct 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews the great Patrick Cockburn about his written testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Cockburn argued, as have many other witnesses for the defense, that Assange's activities with WikiLeaks amount to the very best kind of journalism: the...