Scott talks to Greg Palast about Venezuela, Deepwater Horizon, and the importance of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning. Palast explains that most Venezuelans still basically support President Maduro, and that the prospect of Guaidó—a wealthy white guy—ruling reminds...
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5/3/19 Kevin Zeese on the Attempted US Coup in Venezuela
by Scott Horton | May 3, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Kevin Zeese, who is still occupying the Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. as part of a group protesting the Trump administration's attempt to oust President Maduro, of which the first step is to hand embassies over to supporters of Juan Guiadó....
4/26/19 Daniel Lazare on Julian Assange and Guccifer 2.0
by Scott Horton | Apr 30, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
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...
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...
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