Nasser Arrabyee comes on the show for an update about Yemen. There seems to be some promise of a real peace negotiation, Arrabyee says, though it's hard to get both sides to see eye to eye on the realities of the situation. The Houthis, as Arrabyee explains, feel they...
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6/24/21 Ben Suitt on the Alarming Suicide Rate Among Post-9/11 War Vets
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ben Suitt about his work about veteran suicides for Brown University's Cost of War Project. Suitt conservatively estimates that about 30,000 veterans of America's terror wars have taken their own lives, a truly astonishing number. This side of modern...
6/24/21 Ted Carpenter on the Bloody Legacy of America’s Drug War
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Carpenter discusses the harmful effects of drug prohibition in America, both at home and abroad. First of all, he points out, prohibition simply doesn't work. We learned this during alcohol prohibition, when consumption remained high but prices and violence...
6/23/21 Doug Bandow on America’s Dangerous Alliance with Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Doug Bandow about the U.S. relationship to Ukraine, perhaps the perfect case study in America's foreign policy arrogance. Ukraine, of course, has very little direct strategic relevance to daily life in America—and yet the U.S. government considers...
6/22/21 William Hartung on the Pork Barrel Politics Behind America’s H-Bomb Policy
by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to William Hartung about America's nuclear policy and the shocking profit motives that end up determining it. Hartung draws particular attention to land-based ICBMs, which, he explains, aren't nearly as effective, since they're fixed in one place, and for...
6/22/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s New Coalition Government
by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. Naftali Bennett has just taken over as Israel's prime minister, following Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to successfully form a coalition government. Bennett, explains Barkin, is quite far on the right, yet he and...
6/17/21 Ray McGovern: Baby Steps at the Biden-Putin Summit
by Scott Horton | Jun 20, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ray McGovern about the Biden-Putin summit. It was not exactly a groundbreaking meeting, says McGovern, though Biden and Putin did agree on at least one crucial point: America and Russia must never fight a nuclear war, since the results would be beyond...
6/10/21 Ray McGovern on the Biden-Putin Summit
by Scott Horton | Jun 13, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern is back to talk about America's relationship with Russia. President Biden met with Putin recently, McGovern explains, which is good for Biden's stance toward Russia, and, of course, for world peace. War with Russia is sometimes held out as an actual...