Dave DeCamp discusses a brand new MIT study into the Bolivian presidential election of November 2019 that resulted in the ouster of Evo Morales over claims of election fraud. The new study finds no such evidence, claiming that all the supposed red flags were perfectly...
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3/6/20 Branko Marcetic: The Case Against Joe Biden
by Scott Horton | Mar 10, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Branko Marcetic about his new book, Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, which explores the arc of Biden's decades-long political career. Marcetic explains that Biden has never really had serious ideological commitments, and instead has simply...
3/6/20 Dan McKnight on the Defend the Guard Movement
by Scott Horton | Mar 9, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Dan McKnight of BringOurTroopsHome.us talks 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 troops to federal service...
3/6/20 Trita Parsi on the Quincy Institute’s Debut Conference
by Scott Horton | Mar 9, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trita Parsi comes back on the show to recap the Quincy Institute's recent conference in Washington D.C., which put pro-restraint and pro-interventionist figures on panels together to debate the merits of America's foreign policy status quo. Some from the antiwar...
3/6/20 Danny Sjursen on Trump’s Afghanistan Deal
by Scott Horton | Mar 9, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen discusses the recent deal to withdraw most of the U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He begins by describing the reactions of his military friends to the idea that this deal represents "surrender" to the Taliban, which some on the right would have you...
3/6/20 Steven Silverman on Baltimore’s $210 Million Strip Search Lawsuit
by Scott Horton | Mar 8, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Baltimore lawyer Steven Silverman about a 2009 case involving the alleged illegal cavity search of his client by Baltimore police. Silverman's client claimed that Officer Shakil Moss stopped him without cause and conducted the cavity search in public in...
2/28/20 Peter Van Buren on Russiagate II and the Coronavirus Panic
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about the resurgence of the narrative that Russia is interfering in American elections, this time in the form of apparent support both for Trump's reelection and for Bernie Sanders to get the Democratic nomination. Van Buren notes that...
2/27/20 Bob Murphy on the Coming Financial Crisis
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott has Bob Murphy on the show to explain the Austrian School's view of the boom and bust cycle in the American economy. Murphy explains why the Keynesians are wrong to assert that booms and busts are simply an inherent feature of capitalism. In fact, it is...
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