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...
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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...
4/26/19 David Stockman on the Mood in ‘Never-Trumpville’
by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
David Stockman offers his take on the end of the Russia investigation. He points out that the Mueller report categorically denies just about every allegation made by President Trump's opponents, including the surveillance of his campaign based on false information...
4/22/19 Peter Van Buren on What Mueller Knew and When
by Scott Horton | Apr 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren joins the show for an update on the aftermath of the Mueller report. Although some commentators are claiming that the report's findings are inconclusive with respect to President Trump's conduct during the campaign, Van Buren reminds us that the...
4/19/19 Max Blumenthal on Assange, Manning, and Venezuela
by Scott Horton | Apr 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Max Blumenthal talks whistleblowers, the middle east, and regime change in Venezuela. In particular, he and Scott lament all the journalists who are critical of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, in which case their mentality must be "if the government doesn't want...
4/19/19 Matt Taibbi on This Generation’s ‘WMD’
by Scott Horton | Apr 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Matt Taibbi about his new book, Hate Inc, written in the aftermath of the media malfeasence around Russiagate. But the media's problems go much deeper, explains Taibbi. Mainstream discussion used to take place in a tightly controlled middle ground...
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