Daniel Lazare discusses the hacking of the DNC email server, which is in the news yet again because of the recent indictment against Julian Assange. Lazare points out why many of the allegations against Assange don't make any sense, among which is the claim that he...
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4/26/19 Grant Smith on the Shifting of American Support for Israel
by Scott Horton | Apr 30, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith comes back on the show to explain the polling around American support for Palestine. Last month Gallup quietly revealed that support for Palestine among Americans is now higher than support for Israel. In the past these polls, which always claimed...
4/26/19 Kevin Zeese on the Attempted Takeover of the Venezuelan Embassy
by Scott Horton | Apr 30, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Zeese joins the show from the Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C., where he and other activists are trying to ensure that the Trump administration doesn't turn the embassy over to their puppet government. Since the actual coup attempt in Venezuela failed due...
4/26/19 Phil Giraldi on the Tireless Russiagate Truthers
by Scott Horton | Apr 28, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Phil Giraldi makes the case that the Russiagate investigation was not simply a good faith effort to ensure then-candidate Trump was not an agent of the Russian government, but a legitimate plot to ruin his chances at the presidency by insiders connected to the Clinton...
4/26/19 Frida Berrigan on a Childhood Ruined by Nuclear Weapons
by Scott Horton | Apr 28, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Frida Berrigan was five years old at the time of the Three Mile Island disaster, which marks her first memory of a life centered around anti-nuclear activism, as both of her parents, renowned Catholic nuclear activists Liz McAllister and Phil Berrigan, spent most of...
4/26/19 Conn Hallinan on the Revenge of the Kurds
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Conn Hallinan joins the show to explain the political situation in Turkey, where President Recep Erdogan has been consolidating power away from the parliament and into a strong executive. The problem, explains Hallinan, is that a groundswell of Kurdish voters has...
4/26/19 Stephen Zunes on the Other Reason Biden Shouldn’t Be President
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Stephen Zunes talks about democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden's shameful record on foreign policy—the real reason he shouldn't be president. In the senate, Biden was a champion of deposing Saddam Hussein all along, explains Zunes, and his claims of merely...
4/26/19 Patrick Cockburn on an Undefeated ISIS
by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Independent Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn about ISIS, who, despite claims of their defeat, are back waging a guerrilla campaign in Iraq. Discussed on the show: We Can Finish ISIS - but Only if the West Winds Down Its Proxy Wars...
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