Daniel Davis joins the show to talk about his recent article, "McMaster Uses Worn Vietnam Trope to Accuse Americans of Defeatism," which discusses the similarities between the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Afghanistan, says Davis, is just as unwinnable as Vietnam...
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5/24/19 Gareth Porter on the Iran ‘Threat’
by Scott Horton | May 29, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter explains the latest propaganda being used to drive a possible war with Iran. President Trump appears to have bought into the story that Iran wants to develop, and possibly use, nuclear weapons, but at least his ignorance, says Porter, is better than the...
5/24/19 Pat McGeehan on the Defend the Guard Act
by Scott Horton | May 28, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
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...
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...
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