Scott talks to Patrick Cockburn about the situation with the Kurds in Syria. Scott calls Syria a win-win-win-win: The Kurds have negotiated a deal with Assad that will give them some autonomy and protection from Turkey, Turkey gets a roughly 30-mile border buffer with...
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10/18/19 Peter Van Buren on the Impeachment Derangement in Washington
by Scott Horton | Oct 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Peter Van Buren about his recent article in The American Conservative, "Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus." Van Buren argues that whatever President Trump's real crimes might be—most notably continuing to help the Saudis...
10/18/19 Doug Bandow on Avoiding Another Cold War
by Scott Horton | Oct 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow comes back on the show to explain the importance of America taking a backseat with Ukraine, particularly with respect to its dispute with Russia over Crimea. Bandow reminds us that Crimea has historically always been a part of Russia, and that it was...
10/18/19 Dan McAdams on Partisan Outrage over Syria
by Scott Horton | Oct 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Dan McAdams about the U.S. withdrawal from northeastern Syria, and the ensuing negotiations between Assad, the Kurds, and Turkey. McAdams reminds us that the whole crisis was only precipitated by America's decision to intervene in Syria's civil war, a...
10/18/19 Elizabeth McAlister: Nuclear Winter and the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
by Scott Horton | Oct 20, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Elizabeth McAlister of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 updates Scott on her legal situation, following an April 2018 incident in which she and other members of her organization broke into a Nuclear Submarine facility. The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of Catholics...
10/14/19 Ramzy Baroud on Israel’s Torture and Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ramzy Baroud joins the show for an update on Israel and Palestine. He wants to dispel some common misconceptions about Israel, starting with the fact that the country didn't even exist before 1948, while Palestine has a history that goes back thousands of years....
10/14/19 Ben Freeman: How the UAE Wins in Washington
by Scott Horton | Oct 15, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ben Freeman joins Scott to talk about his new study on the Emirati lobby, which wields enormous power in Washington D.C. The UAE generally has a good reputation in America, usually being associated with glamor, cosmopolitanism, and vast oil wealth. In reality, their...
10/14/19 David Stockman on the Media and Establishment Hysteria over Syria
by Scott Horton | Oct 15, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
David Stockman discusses the outrage that has followed President Trump's movement of a few dozen troops out of northeastern Syria. Stockman is quick to clarify that this is not even a withdrawal of troops, just a relocation from one part of the country into another,...
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