Dan Cohen comes on the show for an update on the protests in Hong Kong. Though positioned as a popular pro-democracy movement, some of the protest leaders have alarming ties to American think tanks like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which may be trying to...
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9/6/19 Giorgio Cafiero on Israel’s Attacks on Iraq and the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 9, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Giorgio Cafiero comes back on the show to talk about how the utter disaster of America and its allies' policies in the Middle East for the last 20 years. It seems like at every turn America's wars—ostensibly undertaken to make the region free of terrorism and safe for...
9/6/19 Melissa Etehad on the Real Toll of US Sanctions on Iran
by Scott Horton | Sep 9, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Melissa Etehad about the effects of U.S. sanctions on ordinary Iranians. The "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran is meant to inflict suffering on the whole country in order to pressure its government into meeting America's demands. Unfortunately,...
9/6/19 Matthew Hoh on a Possible Peace Deal in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Sep 7, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about the apparent peace deal in the works between the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The American side has announced such a deal as basically finalized, but as yet nothing has come from the Taliban to officially confirm...
9/6/19 Sam Husseini on Katharine Gun’s Heroism and Joe Biden’s Villainy
by Scott Horton | Sep 7, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Sam Husseini talks about the new film, "Official Secrets", which tells the story of Katharine Gun, a British intelligence analyst who leaked information about the false case for war in Iraq to the press in 2003. Scott and Husseini also talk about Joe Biden's record on...
9/6/19 Asa Winstanley on the Documentary the Israel Lobby Doesn’t Want You to See
by Scott Horton | Sep 7, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Asa Winstanley reminds us about the incredibly important documentary, The Lobby USA, which was produced but then shut down by Al Jazeera, and finally released by Winstanley's organization, The Electronic Intifada. The documentary exposes the unbelievable power and...
8/30/19 John Kiriakou on the Deep State’s Search for a ‘Russiagate’ Scalp
by Scott Horton | Sep 3, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
John Kiriakou fills in some of the details of the real story of Maria Butina, the alleged Russian spy who is said to have conspired with the 2016 Trump campaign. The problem with the official narrative, explains Kiriakou, is that Butina is not a spy at all and there's...
8/30/19 Danny Sjursen on the Hidden Cost of America’s Endless Wars and How Trump Could End Them
by Scott Horton | Sep 1, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen explains why staying in Afghanistan, even indefinitely, won't make any difference in its eventual outcome. Right now the U.S. military is only enforcing the Kabul government's grip on a small part of the country, and if they leave, either the Taliban...
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