Scott talks to Ted Carpenter about the NATO secret no one wants to admit, which is that part of the alliance involves America promising to enter a nuclear war in the defense of its allies, including the Baltic states right on Russia's border. It hardly needs to be...
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12/6/19 Kelley B. Vlahos on the Apathy Toward Hero Whistleblowers Manning and Assange
by Scott Horton | Dec 7, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Kelley Vlahos discusses the latest with Julian Assange, who now will be testifying in a spying case involving the Spanish company UC Global, and which may implicate America's CIA and even top Republican donor Sheldon Adelson. Assange is being held in a London jail for...
12/2/19 Mark Perry on The Real Reason The Navy Stood Up To Trump
by Scott Horton | Dec 3, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Perry discusses what he calls "the biggest breakdown in civil-military relations since Vietnam": the controversy over the war crimes trial of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher. By refusing to allow the Navy to discipline Gallagher in the way they intended, Trump has...
11/29/19 Jeb Sprague on the Latest Latin American Deep State Coup
by Scott Horton | Nov 30, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Jeb Sprague about his work studying U.S.-backed coups in Latin America, particularly the current one in Bolivia. Support for democracy and the rule of law is one thing, say Scott and Sprague, but it is quite another to demand that the military rush in...
11/22/19 Aaron Maté on the Dangerous Precedent of ‘Russiagate’
by Scott Horton | Nov 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Aaron Maté about the role John Brennan and the CIA might have played in the investigation into Trump's ties to Russia during the 2016 election. Although Maté is a progressive, he understands how dangerous it is to have intelligence agencies with the...
11/22/19 Doug Bandow on Making Peace with the Rest of the World
by Scott Horton | Nov 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow explains why the pathological need for neocons and neoliberals in Washington to antagonize other powerful countries is so dangerous for America. Russia and China, he says, can both be our allies. It makes no sense for the U.S. military to be involved in...
11/22/19 Michael Boldin on the PATRIOT Act
by Scott Horton | Nov 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Michael Boldin describes the appalling state of an American government that has strayed so far from its founding principles as codified by the constitution. Today the federal government wields so much power over every aspect of our lives that the only rational choice...
11/22/19 Danny Sjursen on the Failures of America’s War in Iraq
by Scott Horton | Nov 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen talks about the ways his experience in Iraq convinced him of the futility of that war, allowing him to see things that the generals and the war planners often could not. Sjursen says that not all officers paid attention to the local situation or to the...
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