West Virginia State Legislator Pat McGeehan joins the show to talk about his "Defend the Guard" bill, a statewide attempt to prevent national guard troops from being called to fight overseas wars, something that the states are supposed to have control over. McGeehan...
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5/24/19 Grant F. Smith: the Niger Uranium Forgeries
by Scott Horton | May 27, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his work obtaining secret government documents by FOIA request. This time Smith has gotten a 640-page document outlining Bush administration intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons in the leadup to the Iraq war. Discussed on the show:...
5/24/19 Andrew Bacevich on the Blindness of Washington Insiders
by Scott Horton | May 27, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Professor Andrew Bacevich gives his take on the growing divide between the foreign policy views of the Washington political establishment and those of the rest of the country. Basically, he explains, Americans are sick of fighting endless wars in the middle east, but...
5/24/19 Phyllis Bennis on the Great March of Return
by Scott Horton | May 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Phyllis Bennis about the Palestinians' Great March of Return, a protest against the unjust removal of Palestinians from their own land by the Israeli government. A huge problem, explains Bennis in a recent article, is the Israeli military's policy to...
5/17/19 Mashal Hashem and James Allen on the American Firms Lobbying for Death in Yemen
by Scott Horton | May 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Mashal Hashem and James Allen, research associates with the Center for International Policy, join Scott to discuss their work on the congressional lobbying by American arms manufacturers. Last year the U.S. sold more than $4.5 billion of weapons to Saudi Arabia alone,...
5/17/19 Ashraf Nubani Demands Justice for the Nakba
by Scott Horton | May 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ashraf Nubani discusses the Nakba, the catastrophic forced exodus of the people living in the Holy Land when the state of Israel was founded in 1948. Palestinians like Nubani, descended from those who were forced to leave their homes, still commemorate the event and...
5/17/19 Charles Glass on Julian Assange’s Arrest
by Scott Horton | May 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Charles Glass talks about the arrest of Julian Assange, which is being cheered by partisans on both sides, since he has done enough to make enemies everywhere. What's astounding is that most of the mainstream media is fine with his imprisonment too, even though what...
5/17/19 Jason Hartwig on Negotiating With Al-Shabaab in Somalia
by Scott Horton | May 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jason Hartwig about how to end the civil war in Somalia, where he recommends negotiating with Al-Shabaab as the best chance for peace. Like other countries where the U.S. military is involved, a decisive victory by one side might not be realistic, and...
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