Branko Marcetic discusses a recent move by the Trump administration that will grant unprecedented powers to the CIA to conduct cyber attacks against foreign countries. This highlights a persistent trend throughout Trump's precedency that has seen him become perhaps...
The Scott Horton Show
7/31/20 Greg Mitchell: the Real History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Scott Horton | Aug 3, 2020 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Greg Mitchell about The Beginning or the End, his new book that tells the story of the making of the 1947 film of the same name. The movie was conceived as an exposé on the horrors of America's use of the nuclear bomb against Japan, partly at the...
7/31/20 Daniel Davis on Afghanistan, Germany and China
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Davis talks about the questionable Russian bounties story that is being used as an excuse to stop President Trump from pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Never mind the fact that America's intelligence agencies have come out to publicly disavow the story,...
7/31/20 Sheldon Richman: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Sheldon Richman about his new book, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other, a collection of essays exploring libertarian political philosophy, particularly as it relates to ancient Greek philosophy and the roots of liberalism. Libertarians sometimes...
7/31/20 Gareth Porter on the Real Story Behind the US-Israeli AMIA Bombing Narrative
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish community center bombing, and in particular the allegation that Hezbollah was behind the attack. Porter has written a piece based on testimony by an Argentinian undercover police officer that paints a different...
7/24/20 Sheldon Richman on the Two-State Illusion
by Scott Horton | Jul 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Sheldon Richman about the dawning realization that a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is never going to happen. Although Prime Minister Netanyahu recently backed down from his official plans for annexation of the West Bank, Richman says...
7/18/20 Gareth Porter on the Prospects of War with Iran
by Scott Horton | Jul 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the idea of a war with Iran. Certain hawkish figures in the U.S. government have been slowly and steadily pushing for such a war for a long time, and have gained even more prominence during the Trump presidency, as he has shown...
7/17/20 Greg Shupak on the Media’s Syrian Sanctions Malfeasance
by Scott Horton | Jul 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Greg Shupak discusses America's horrible "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign against Syria, and the media's total willingness to cheer it along. Shupak reminds us that despite what policymakers claim, sanctions really only hurt the regular citizens of a country,...
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