Ron Enzweiler discusses the unlearned lessons of America's wasteful and doomed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. First of all, he says, we should have known that the only thing keeping Iraq together was Saddam Hussein's stranglehold on power, which prevented a civil war...
The Scott Horton Show
7/16/21 Doug Bandow on the Calls for Intervention in Haiti and a Cold War With China
by Scott Horton | Jul 18, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Doug Bandow about the recent assassination of Haiti's president and the ensuing calls for U.S. intervention. Bandow warns about the perils of interventions like this, even when they are seemingly justified by the noble cause of humanitarianism. In Haiti...
7/16/21 Dave DeCamp on Iraq, Iran and US Withdrawal from the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Jul 18, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about some of the latest stories at antiwar.com. Recently, says DeCamp, it's been reported that Iran was urging Iraqi militias not to retaliate against the U.S., after they'd been the target of airstrikes by the Biden administration....
7/16/21 Branko Marcetic on the Julian Assange Media Blackout
by Scott Horton | Jul 17, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Branko Marcetic discusses the stunning lack of mainstream media coverage of Julian Assange's case. Besides being the right thing to do, since Assange has heroically helped expose heinous crimes by many of the world's governments, journalists also have a selfish reason...
7/15/21 Ted Snider on Why the US Prefers Iranian Hardliners
by Scott Horton | Jul 15, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Ted Snider about America's relationship with Iran and Syria. Iran has just elected a new president, Ibrahim Raisi, who Snider says is much more of a hardliner than his predecessor, Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani was the one who worked with the Obama...
7/9/21 Jim Bovard on Biden’s Buffoonish War on Extremism
by Scott Horton | Jul 14, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard discusses the recent rumblings about "domestic extremism," which the Biden administration and many Democrats have been warning is a rising problem in America. So far, Biden has only issued executive orders about so-called extremism, but some politicians are...
7/9/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Plights of Julian Assange and Daniel Hale
by Scott Horton | Jul 14, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back with an update on Julian Assange and Daniel Hale, both of whom continue to languish in maximum security prisons for the "crime" of telling the people about the very real crimes of their own governments. Although a UK judge denied the U.S....
7/9/21 Danny Sjursen on the Danger of an Afghanistan ‘Threequel’ from the Biden Administration
by Scott Horton | Jul 14, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which at the moment the Biden administration appears poised to follow through with. Sjursen is concerned about the response from the mainstream media and both party establishments—Republicans claim...