Scott talks to Andrew Cockburn about his 2014 article on Afghan-born neoconservative Zalmay Khalilzad. Cockburn explains how it was Khalilzad who selected new leaders for Afghanistan and Iraq after the old regimes had fallen to U.S. forces. Scott and Cockburn also...
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8/17/21 Matthew Hoh on the Systemic Failures Behind America’s Loss in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Matthew Hoh, the Marine veteran who blew the whistle about the doomed Afghan Surge. Hoh lays out what led him to resign in protest and go to the press with the truth about how hopeless the military’s counterinsurgency mission really was. Hoh then...
8/13/21 Joseph Solis-Mullen: China Won’t Be Taking Over the World
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Joseph Solis-Mullen discusses the claim that America must now turn its attention toward China as the new threat of global hegemony. War hawks will cite China's growing economic supremacy, many alleged human rights abuses and supposed imperialistic designs on its...
8/13/21 Ken Bensinger on the Role of FBI Informants in the Michigan Kidnapping Plot
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News about the role of FBI informants in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Bensinger explains that informants played a heavy role in the militia group involved and helped motivate members to take violent...
8/13/21 Adam Kokesh on Quitting the Military and Big Tech Suppression of Dissident Voices
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by Adam Kokesh, who gives his perspective on how much blame cops and soldiers bear for the immorality of their actions. Scott describes the way we seem to cut soldiers some slack, largely because they tend to be younger when they join up, the...
8/13/21 Daniel Davis on the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 15, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Daniel Davis about his recent Fox News article praising President Biden for standing firm (so far) in his intent to end the war in Afghanistan. Davis explains that although the Taliban takeover and the increase in violence in the wake of the American...
8/12/21 Ray McGovern on the History of US-Russia Relations and the Threat of a New Cold War
by Scott Horton | Aug 14, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ray McGovern about his decades as a CIA analyst, with a particular focus on U.S.–Russia policy from Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. They also discuss America's growing antagonism toward Russia and China in recent years, and the attempt to expand NATO...
8/4/21 Muntadhar al-Zaidi on the Infamous George Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident
by Scott Horton | Aug 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show, Uncategorized
Scott talks to Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi man who famously threw his shoes at George W. Bush in 2008. At the time, Al-Zaidi hoped to bring awareness to the suffering inflicted on the Iraqi people by Bush's war. He has continued his activism in the years since,...
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