Trevor Timm is back with an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Timm was a witness for the defense, where he argued against the idea that what Assange and WikiLeaks do is categorically different than the activity of other journalists. The prosecution has...
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9/28/20 Kevin Gosztola: Week Four of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing, where most recently the defense has been debunking the prosecution's claim that Assange engaged in a hacking scheme with Chelsea Manning. Gosztola says the defense was able to establish...
9/25/20 Gilbert Doctorow on the US Government’s Provocative Russia Policy
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gilbert Doctorow discusses the latest aggressive maneuvers being carried out by the U.S. government and its allies toward Russia. Doctorow says that the flying of planes near Russia's border just for intelligence gathering is quite common and relatively...
9/25/20 Jessica Katzenstein on the Militarization of American Police
by Scott Horton | Sep 27, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America's foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization to the escalation of the war on drugs in the 1990s, when SWAT raids...
9/25/20 Grant Smith on the Israel Lobby, Tech Censorship and the 1619 Project
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his ongoing work on the Israel lobby and its influence in America. Scott likens the story of Israel and Palestine to the history of the U.S. government and the Native Americans—for a long time everyone learned a skewed version that...
9/25/20 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Latest Fake Terrorism Entrapment Scheme
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Aaronson discusses the FBI's dubious techniques for luring people into fake terrorist plots, which very often border on entrapment. In this case he takes up the story of two Americans involved in the "boogaloo" movement, who were approached by FBI agents...
9/25/20 Andrea Prasow on the Deadly Consequences of the US-Saudi War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Andrea Prasow about the war crimes and human rights violations being perpetrated by all sides in the war in Yemen. She reminds us that although civilians always suffer the most during war, this war has seen a particularly cruel strategy by the Saudis,...
9/23/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 12 of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. A major focus of the last few days, he says, has been Assange's mental health, including a brand new diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. The defense has argued that this, combined with...