Harry Kazianis discusses the negotiations between North Korea, South Korea, and the United States. Kazianis says that although North Korea has some nuclear weapon capability, they're not a real threat to America, because the moment they launched a missile they would...
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5/17/19 José Niño Explains How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela
by Scott Horton | May 18, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
José Niño talks about his new book, How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela. He explains the debate between critics of socialism, who claim that the economic system is responsible for Venezuela's problems, and its defenders, who maintain that socialism was working well...
5/17/19 Curt Mills on John Bolton’s War with Iran
by Scott Horton | May 17, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Curt Mills discusses John Bolton's plans for provoking a war with Iran and the differences in policy and philosophy between Bolton and Trump. Discussed on the show: "Is Bolton’s War With Iran Becoming A Reality?" (The National Interest) "Iran Nuclear Deal Exit...
5/17/19 Muhammad Sahimi on Iran
by Scott Horton | May 17, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi talks war with Iran, which he says the Ayatollah, and certainly the Iranian people, do not want. They understand that even though America would never outright win a war like that, it could practically destroy the entire country of Iran. The puzzling...
5/14/19 Gareth Porter on the Supposed Iranian Threat
by Scott Horton | May 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter explains the overblown claims of Iran's threat to the United States, which are constantly being used as a pretext for war by American and Israeli neocons. Discussed on the show: "John Bolton's Nefarious Plot for War With Iran" (Truthdig) "Did Iran Kill...
5/14/19 Andrew Cockburn on the Military-Industrial ‘Virus’
by Scott Horton | May 15, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Andrew Cockburn comes back on the show to discuss his recent piece, "The Military-Industrial Virus." Cockburn describes how the war planners, and even many of the officers, don't care all that much about the men they're sending off to fight and die in America's wars....
5/10/19 Ray McGovern and Bill Binney on the Supposed Russian Hack of the DNC
by Scott Horton | May 15, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern and Bill Binney, both of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for sanity, discuss their findings on the supposed Russian hack of the DNC email server. They explain their detailed testing of the claim that the emails were hacked and transferred over the...
5/10/19 Steven Woskow on the Battle over BDS
by Scott Horton | May 14, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Steven Woskow about recent anti-BDS legislation at both the state and federal level. The issue has been going back and forth in the courts because on the one hand, a boycott is just an expression of personal first amendment freedoms, but on the other,...
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