David Stockman joins the show to talk about his new book, Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp And The Fantasy of MAGA. Stockman explains how the U.S. has painted itself into a corner with both its unwinnable wars in the middle east, and its unsustainable fiscal and...
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2/1/19 Jon Schwarz on Elliott Abrams’ Bloody History in Latin America
by Scott Horton | Feb 6, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
The Intercept's Jon Schwarz joins the show to talk about Elliott Abrams, President Trump's new pick as special envoy to Venezuela. Abrams comes from a long line of neocons with a history of supporting regime change, often resulting in massive civilian casualties and...
2/1/19 Sheldon Richman on the FDA’s War on Tobacco, Part 2
by Scott Horton | Feb 6, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman comes on the show for part two of his series on the FDA's recent moves to control tobacco products even more tightly. Not only is the agency allowed to regulate all products containing tobacco, they can now determine what constitutes a "tobacco...
2/1/19 Eric Margolis on Pulling Troops out of Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Feb 6, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis joins the show to talk about President Trump's apparent intentions to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. This idea has met with a surprising amount of pushback—somehow ending the war is seen as more shameful than the war itself. Scott and Margolis fear...
2/1/19 Max Blumenthal on Trump’s ‘Presidential’ Posture Toward Venezuela
by Scott Horton | Feb 5, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Max Blumenthal about the political unrest in Venezuela. Blumenthal explains how dangerous it is that there's been a mostly positive, and bipartisan, response to President Trump's comments about intervening there. Just like when he was bombing Syria,...
2/1/19 Jason Hickel on the Crimes of British Colonialism
by Scott Horton | Feb 5, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Jason Hickel discusses the history of British colonial rule in India and his new piece, "How Britain stole $45 trillion from India." He explains the British government's clever scheme: forcibly extract tax revenue from the people, use the money to buy goods from other...
2/1/19 Greg Palast on Avoiding Regime Change in Venezuela
by Scott Horton | Feb 4, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Greg Palast explains the situation in Venezuela, where the Trump administration has recently been signaling for U.S.-backed regime change. Although the claim is that it's the U.S.'s duty to support "democracy," says Palast, the concern is really for Venezuelan oil....
2/1/19 Bonnie Kristian on Why the US Military Should Get out of Somalia
by Scott Horton | Feb 2, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Bonnie Kristian talks about her latest piece, "If Trump Isn’t Planning to Draw Down U.S. Intervention in Somalia, He Should Be." She and Scott point out how President Trump often has good instincts on foreign policy, at times questioning what the U.S. is even doing in...
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