Scott talks to documentary producer Martin Smith about the subject of his newest project, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani. Smith considers Jolani and his fighters to be something of a separate group from al Qaeda and ISIS who should be treated as...
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3/12/21 Danny Sjursen on the Biden Administration’s Afghanistan Plan
by Scott Horton | Mar 13, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the leaked Biden administration plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The document evidently represents the Biden administration's new take on the deal reached with the Taliban during the Trump administration, which laid...
3/9/21 Dan McKnight on the Defend the Guard Movement
by Scott Horton | Mar 10, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Dan McKnight discusses the progress of the "Defend the Guard" movement, a set of bills that would mandate that a state's national guard troops not be deployed overseas without an official declaration of war from congress. The legislation has sponsors in 31 states so...
3/5/21 Peter Van Buren on Nuclear Proliferation and the Redirection from the Middle East to China
by Scott Horton | Mar 8, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren is back for a conversation about President Biden's foreign policy, especially regarding Iran. Van Buren explains the way that the JCPOA, signed under the Obama administration, lengthened the amount of time that it would take Iran to develop a nuclear...
3/5/21 Hans Kristensen on America’s Nuclear Saber-Rattling in Eastern Europe
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Hans Kristensen about nuclear proliferation. Ever since the U.S. government backed the coup in Ukraine in 2014, he says, we've been flying bombers near Russia and the Baltic states in what are ostensibly "training exercises," but which in reality are...
3/5/21 Max Blumenthal: UK Foreign Office Colluded with International Media to ‘Weaken Russia’
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Max Blumenthal begins by discussing the immense power imbalance between Israel and Palestine, which has led to enormously one-sided violence by the Israelis. The Palestinians, to be sure, have fought back, but Blumenthal says there's a crucial difference between...
2/26/21 Ryan McMaken on the Apocalyptic Threat of Nuclear Weapons
by Scott Horton | Feb 26, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Ryan McMaken about nuclear proliferation. McMaken describes two lessons that other countries have learned from the U.S. about nukes: (1) America will use the threat of an emerging nuclear program as an excuse for invasion, as it did in Iraq and...
2/19/21 Eli Clifton on the Arms Industry Money Behind Biden’s Afghanistan Study Group
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Eli Clifton discusses the Biden Administration's Afghanistan study group, a panel of national security experts and former officers giving recommendations on whether the U.S. should get out of Afghanistan on the Trump administration's withdrawal timeline. Some of these...
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