Aaron Maté is back with yet another update on the cover-up of the investigation into the supposed chemical attack in Douma, Syria. An initial investigation by the OPCW appeared to verify that the 2018 attack was indeed a chlorine gas attack, which must have been...
The Scott Horton Show
12/4/20 Chris Woods on the Real Civilian Death Toll in Iraq
by Scott Horton | Dec 6, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Chris Woods from Airwars about some of the difficulties in assessing civilian casualties from U.S. bombs in Iraq. Woods estimates very conservatively that between eight and thirteen thousand civilians have been killed during the war in Iraq, but...
12/4/20 Danny Sjursen: The Case Against Jake Sullivan
by Scott Horton | Dec 6, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen is back for a look at Biden's foreign policy team, in particular his new National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. Sjursen says that Sullivan fits right in with many of Biden's other cabinet picks: extremely talented, well-credentialed, respectable...
12/4/20 Grant Smith on the Jonathan Pollard Exception
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American intelligence analyst who pled guilty to espionage on behalf of Israel in the 1980s. Pollard has been imprisoned for his crimes since then, until he was recently released on parole by the Trump...
12/4/20 Gilbert Doctorow: Will Antony Blinken’s Past Catch Up With Him?
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gilbert Doctorow talks about Biden's pick for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, particularly his famous stepfather, Samuel Pisar. Pisar is well-known these days for being a holocaust survivor rescued by American GIs during World War II, but is less known for his...
12/3/20 Gareth Porter on the Assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the recent assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by the Israeli government, which continues to claim that Fakhrizadeh was a "top nuclear scientist" in Iran. In reality, explains Porter, Fakhrizadeh was not a nuclear...
11/27/20 Stephen Zunes on Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | Nov 29, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Stephen Zunes about Joe Biden's track record on foreign policy, and its potential implications for his presidency. Zunes rehashes some of the bad parts of Biden's record, beginning with his support for the invasion of Iraq. Although many Democrats voted...
11/27/20 Frank Ledwidge on Losing the War in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Nov 29, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Frank Ledwidge, a British former intelligence officer, discusses the futility of the war in Afghanistan (and the rest of the terror wars), which many of the world's countries have now been mired in for nearly two decades. Ledwidge begins by reminding us just how much...