Scott interviews Zaher Wahab of the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education about the economic catastrophe taking place in Afghanistan. Although the U.S. Government claimed it was working to develop Afghanistan, Wahab explains that what it really did was prop...
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1/14/22 Ken Bensinger on the Whitmer Kidnapping Plot and January 6th
by Scott Horton | Jan 19, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News returns to the show to follow up about the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Although the plot made national headlines when 14 militia members were arrested, Bensinger and fellow journalists dug deeper to find a...
1/14/22 Ray McGovern on the US-Russia Talks
by Scott Horton | Jan 17, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern is back to discuss the recent talks between Putin and the Biden Administration. McGovern observes that the talks, framed as a tense battle over Ukrainian sovereignty, appear to have actually steered towards a discussion about arms control in the region. A...
1/13/22 Daniel Ellsberg: Humans Are Not to Be Entrusted With Nuclear Weapons
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by the heroic whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to talk about a recent press release he helped put out calling for the abolition of land-based nuclear missiles in the United States. Before getting to that, Scott and Ellsberg discuss how his Pentagon Papers...
1/13/22 Andy Worthington on the Twenty Years of Abuse at Guantanamo Bay
by Scott Horton | Jan 15, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by Andy Worthington, author of Guantanamo Files to discuss the status of the prison two decades after it opened. Worthington explains who remains detained at the prison, where detainees stand regarding trials and the developments that have happened...
1/13/22 Trita Parsi on the American Public’s Influence on US Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | Jan 14, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute recently wrote a piece in a German publication arguing that the noninterventionist sentiment of the Trump years was not an arbitration. So Scott brought him on to talk about it. They discuss Parsi’s expectations for the future of...
1/7/22 Daniel McAdams on the Unfolding Revolution in Kazakhstan
by Scott Horton | Jan 9, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Daniel McAdams about the uprisings in Kazakhstan this week on Antiwar Radio. McAdams explains why these violent protests broke out. He then points to how this has all the markings of a western-backed color-coded revolution. Scott and McAdams discuss...
1/7/22 Bill Ottman on Alternative Social Networks and the Future of the Internet
by Scott Horton | Jan 8, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by Bill Ottman, the co-founder and CEO of Minds — a blockchain-based social network. After Twitter banned Dr. Robert Malone for spreading alleged medical misinformation, many have been voicing frustration with the major social networks. And although...