Ramzy Baroud discusses the deliberately misleading way that stories about Israel-Palestine are presented in western media. The story, he says, almost always begins with the fact that Palestinians have launched rockets at Israeli forces, or at least presents the...
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5/13/21 Phil Weiss on the Growing Recognition of Israeli Apartheid
by Scott Horton | May 14, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Phil Weiss about Israel-Palestine in light of the violence of the last few days. Weiss begins by pointing out that Human Rights Watch has finally declared Israel to be a single apartheid state. In other words, the two-state solution is dead, and the...
5/11/21 Dave Smith on the Upcoming Pennsylvania LP Convention and Mises Caucus Event
by Scott Horton | May 11, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Dave Smith about the upcoming Pennsylvania Libertarian Party convention and the special Mises Caucus event happening in Pittsburgh the same weekend. Both Smith and Scott will be speaking this Friday, May 14th, and there will be a host of other guest...
5/7/21 Dan Cohen on Western Media Bias in Israel and Colombia
by Scott Horton | May 10, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Dan Cohen about unrest in Jerusalem, where Israeli soldiers stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque, and in Colombia, where protestors have been clashing with government forces, resulting in at least 39 civilian deaths so far. Both of these stories are perverted by...
5/7/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Inhumane Treatment of America’s National Security Whistleblowers
by Scott Horton | May 10, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola discusses the alarming new developments in the case of Daniel Hale, a whistleblower who helped expose the U.S. military's secret drone assassination program during the Obama administration. Because it's so easy to obtain convictions of whistleblowers,...
5/7/21 Alfred McCoy: How Washington Lost the Ultimate Drug War
by Scott Horton | May 10, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Professor Alfred McCoy about the history of the drug trade during America's decades-long involvement in Afghanistan. Before the 1980s, McCoy explains, drugs were not a significant part of the Afghan economy—but that all changed when President Bush's...
5/7/21 Doug Bandow on the Neocon Think Tanks Keeping America at War
by Scott Horton | May 9, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow discusses the creation of the Vandenberg Coalition, the latest in a long string of neocon think tanks that do little more than promote American interventionism halfway across the world. Bandow reminds us of two strong motivating factors behind this strain...
5/7/21 Heather Brandon-Smith on the Effort to Repeal the 2002 Iraq AUMF
by Scott Horton | May 9, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Heather Brandon-Smith of the Friends Committee on National Legislation about the effort to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force. Although the 2002 AUMF has been less widely cited as grounds for America's ever-expanding wars in...