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...
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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...
11/4/19 Ramzy Baroud on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians
by Scott Horton | Nov 6, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ramzy Baroud discusses the often-forgotten Palestinian Christian minority, which faces all the same problems at the hands of their Israeli occupiers that the Palestinian Muslims do. People in the U.S. are often surprised to learn how many Christians there are in...
11/4/19 Dan McKnight on the Fight to Bring Our Troops Home
by Scott Horton | Nov 6, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Dan McKnight of BringOurTroopsHome.US comes on the show to announce his organization's upcoming event, in which hundreds of veterans of the terror wars will be gathering in Washington D.C. next week to take the antiwar message to our political leaders. The event will...
11/4/19 Jordan Smith on the Miscarriage of Justice for Rodney Reed
by Scott Horton | Nov 5, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Jordan Smith about the case of Rodney Reed, a Texas death row inmate convicted in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. For years there has been criticism of the investigation and trial of Reed, including allegations of mishandling of evidence, lack of...
11/1/19 Sheldon Richman on the True History of Israel
by Scott Horton | Nov 4, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman shares some of the real history of the Zionist movement, described in his new book, Coming to Palestine. Richman reminds us that this history started long before the Second World War, and was originally not a refugee movement at all. It was simply a...
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