Joe Lauria comments on the last few days of Julian Assange's extradition hearing. He notes a movement on the part of the prosecution away from their previous tack, which was to argue that Assange was not really a journalist, but actually engaging in hacking and...
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9/17/20 Ted Snider on the Bahrain ‘Peace’ Agreement
by Scott Horton | Sep 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Snider comes back for an update on the recent round of "peace deals" conducted by President Trump over the last few weeks. Now Bahrain has joined the normalization agreement between the U.S., Israel and the UAE, a move that Trump and his allies are hailing as...
9/15/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day Six of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. He describes the great line-up of witnesses being summoned by Assange's defense team and how easily, for the most part, they've been able to dismantle the arguments from the prosecution....
9/11/20 Gareth Porter: More on Trump’s First Term Foreign Policy Record
by Scott Horton | Sep 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott and Gareth Porter continue their ongoing conversation about President Trump's foreign policy so far. Porter focuses first on Iran, which has become the ultimate excuse for just about every foreign policy decision over the last decade. In reality, of course, Iran...
9/11/20 Arthur Bloom on the Fake Opinion Columnists Pushing War With Iran
by Scott Horton | Sep 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Arthur Bloom talks about a recent piece from The American Conservative, which exposes the case of a prolific and well-known anti-Iran opinion columnist who turned out not to be a real person. "Amir Basiri," who wrote dozens of pieces for mostly right-leaning...
9/11/20 Ford Fischer on the Unified Activism the Media Doesn’t Want You to See
by Scott Horton | Sep 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Journalist Ford Fischer discusses his coverage of the various armed factions taking to the streets in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, and amid broader calls for police reform. The mainstream media typically paints a black-and-white narrative: on one side are...
9/11/20 Josiah Lippincott: the Wholesale Slaughter of Japanese Civilians in WWII
by Scott Horton | Sep 14, 2020 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Josiah Lippincott about the conventional narrative surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The common argument, says Lippincott, is that the U.S. had no real choice but to drop the bombs, since the alternative would have...
9/11/20 Aaron Maté on the Deep State’s Many ‘Russiagate’ Lies
by Scott Horton | Sep 14, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Aaron Maté revisits the many lies on which the 'Russiagate' probe into Donald Trump's campaign and presidency was founded. Maté calls the whole story what it is: a conspiracy theory. The only way someone could find all the far-fetched and flimsy pieces of evidence...