Scott interviews attorney and writer Ashraf Nubani about his recent piece making a case for releasing Robert Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Nubani explains that Sirhan meets all the stated requirements of the parole board and that the pressure to keep him...
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8/27/21 Daniel Davis on the Kabul Airport Bombing
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott speaks with Daniel Davis about the suicide bombing at the entrance to the Kabul Airport. Davis considers this an especially devastating attack because the soldiers killed were only days away from being withdrawn from the country. He also believes that these...
8/27/21 Peter Van Buren: There Will Be Another Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Peter Van Buren about the situation in Afghanistan. Van Buren explains that many of the people tasked with working on the Afghanistan War were, in fact, working to cover up their own role in the war. And that these individual failures played off each...
8/27/21 Grant Smith on the Open Secret of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Grant Smith about his recent article, which makes the case that the $3.8 billion in foreign aid given to Israel is on questionable legal grounds. It all comes back to Israel’s nuclear weapons, which the U.S. government has not officially acknowledged...
8/20/21 Trita Parsi on the True Drivers of Middle East Instability
by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Trita Parsi about his paper concerning the intervention of Middle East powers over the last decade. Parsi and his coauthor Matthew Petti found that, contrary to the picture often painted of one malign actor driving all the instability, there are...
8/20/21 Daniel McAdams on Hubris of the Foreign Policy Establishment
by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Daniel McAdams about his recent appearance on RT, where he challenged the Western Media's narrative about China. McAdams says they have it backward, criticizing China for its best actions, such as economic engagement, while seemingly wanting to import...
8/20/21 Dave DeCamp: An Update on the Afghanistan Evacuation
by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Dave DeCamp joins the show to give an update on the effort to evacuate Westerners and their allies from Kabul. He explains that the evacuations are moving at a good clip. So far, the Biden Administration has resisted pressure to send troops into Kabul as there has...
8/17/21 Eric Margolis: This is Not the Worst Case Scenario in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 20, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis talks with Scott about the situation in Afghanistan as American forces continue to withdraw. Of course, the last few days have seen nonstop headlines proclaiming an utter disaster in the country, many of them excoriating President Biden for having...
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