Listen to the audio from Scott's speech at the Ron Paul Symposium on state propaganda and the 2020 election in Texas last weekend. He talks about how important it is, now more than ever, to present a credible opposition to the neoliberal consensus that dominates both...
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11/11/19 Danny Sjursen on Reclaiming Veterans Day
by Scott Horton | Nov 12, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen advocates for a reclaiming of Veterans Day and a return to the principles of the holiday originally known as Armistice Day. Armistice Day celebrated the end to one of the bloodiest wars in world history, and Sjursen reminds us how eminently worthy of...
11/7/19 Ron Enzweiler on the Neocons’ Absurd Syrian Oil Narrative
by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ron Enzweiler about President Trump trying to keep troops in Syria in order to seize their oil fields for American use. Enzweiler says that apart from this being illegal under international law, Syria's oil fields amount to about 0.2% of the global...
11/7/19 Francis Boyle: In Defense of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Francis Boyle about his attempts to help Liz McAlister and the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 in their legal battle for what he views as justified civil resistance. McAlister helped break into the Kings Bay nuclear base in order to peacefully and symbolically...
11/7/19 Matthew Hoh on the Unwinnable War in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Matthew Hoh discusses the extraordinary difficulties in resolving the complex political and ethnic tensions in Afghanistan, something that the U.S. military has been trying to do for going on 20 years. Hoh says that during his time there he saw lots of practices by...
11/7/19 Tara Copp on the Rising Cancer Rates Among Veterans
by Scott Horton | Nov 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Tara Copp about her research on cancer rates among military veterans, particularly air force pilots, whose powerful radar systems may be a contributing factor to multiple types of cancers. Copp reminds us that causality is very difficult to establish in...
11/7/19 Ali M. Latifi on Life in the Most Drone-Bombed Country in the World
by Scott Horton | Nov 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ali Latifi talks about his reporting on the drone war in Afghanistan, the most drone-bombed country in the world. He tells us one of the most troubling facts about America's drone campaigns: that almost everyone who is killed in a drone strike gets labeled an "enemy...
11/7/19 Elizabeth Murray Exposes the Lies Behind Douma
by Scott Horton | Nov 9, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Elizabeth Murray about the supposed chemical attack in Douma, Syria in 2017, which was used to justify an immediate bombing campaign by the U.S. and its allies. A thorough investigation was only conducted months later, and the reports of this...
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