Gareth Porter discusses President Trump's foreign policy as we near the end of his first term. The story of Trump's time in office, as everyone knows, has been that despite his sense for the futility and unpopularity of America's endless wars, he, like Obama before...
The Scott Horton Show
9/4/20 David Henderson on the Supposed Economic Threat of China
by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews David Henderson about the threat to the U.S. posed by China's growing stature as an economic powerhouse. In general, Henderson thinks that such concerns are overblown, citing the real economic figures behind the trade relationship. In particular, he...
9/4/20 Trevor Timm on the Vindication of Edward Snowden
by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Timm discusses an important new ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which says that the NSA's mass data-gathering program, famously exposed by Edward Snowden, was illegal all along. It also came out during the court proceedings that not a single act...
8/31/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Israeli Bureaucracy Forcing Palestinians From Their Homes
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ramzy Baroud shares the heartbreaking story of Ahmed Amarneh, an engineer who decided to build a home for his family in a network of caves near their town after getting repeatedly denied building permits for a real house by the Israeli government. Now that he has...
8/31/20 Gareth Porter on Israel’s Ammonium Nitrate Terror Plot Delusion
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter debunks a series of bogus incidents in which Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, has accused various Lebanese men over the years of being Hezbollah agents attempting to orchestrate terrorist plots all around the world. In each of the cases that Porter...
8/31/20 Phil Weiss on Ultra-Pro-Israel Presidential Candidate Joe Biden
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Phil Weiss about the deplorable state of the Democratic Party when it comes to Israel policy. Weiss calls Joe Biden the most pro-Israel candidate of all time, which is somewhat ironic given that he's running against the most pro-Israel president of...
8/28/20 Alan MacLeod on the Tight Relationship Between the US and Israel
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Alan MacLeod discusses a recent round of bombing by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, which as usual is either being completely ignored by mainstream media outlets, or is being described as justified retaliation for initial Palestinian aggression. MacLeod says that...
8/28/20 Doug Bandow on America’s Failures as the World’s Police
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Doug Bandow about the baffling failure of U.S. policymakers to learn from any of America's recent foreign policy blunders. In particular, despite widespread consensus that the invasion of Iraq was a total calamity, politicians at the highest levels—and...
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