Sheldon Richman discusses what he calls "the nonintervention principle," a corollary of libertarianism's nonaggression principle. Richman says that in the face of those who advocate foreign intervention and regime change, libertarians have a tendency to deny the...
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2/21/20 Grant Smith on IsraelLobbyCon 2020
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith joins the show to promote his upcoming conference, Transcending The Israel Lobby At Home And Abroad, to be held in Washington D.C. this May. The conference, as with most of Smith's work, is focused on exposing the power the Israel Lobby wields in America...
2/21/20 Daniel Lazare on Erdogan’s Military Adventure in Syria
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Lazare discusses the problems facing Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is dealing with a troubled economy, declining political popularity at home, and failing military excursions abroad. Lazare and Scott also talk about the failure of President Trump to...
2/19/20 Trita Parsi on Making a Restrained Foreign Policy the Status Quo
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Trita Parsi about an event being hosted next week by Parsi's organization, the Quincy Institute, which will pit advocates of a restrained foreign policy against war hawks in a series of panel discussions. The event is Wednesday, February 26 in...
2/17/20 Gareth Porter on the History of the Iran Crisis
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter comes on the show to promote his new book, The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War, cowritten with John Kiriakou. Porter and Scott recap the entire modern history of U.S. relations with Iran, focusing on the inflated...
2/14/20 Cliff Maloney on the Defend the Guard Movement
by Scott Horton | Feb 18, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Cliff Maloney of Young Americans for Liberty joins the show to talk about the "Defend the Guard" movement popping up in state legislatures around the country. The legislation on which the movement is based calls for an end to the calling up of states' national guard...
2/7/20 Danny Sjursen on America’s Coming Battle for Eurasia
by Scott Horton | Feb 12, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen is back for part two of his conversation with Scott about America's foreign policy disasters, this time focusing on what Sjursen calls "the coming battle for Eurasia." According to an old theory of geopolitics, the power that controls central...
2/7/20 Danny Sjursen on Middle East Politics and the Missing Antiwar Left
by Scott Horton | Feb 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the many catastrophic failures of American foreign policy, and most recently the proposed plan to carve out an autonomous Sunni region in western Iraq, which the U.S. could use to help control the Middle East and prevent Iranian...
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