Scott talks to Kevin Gosztola about day two of Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Gosztola covers some of the highlights of the day's proceedings, including witness testimony for Assange's defense, the main purpose of which was to emphasize the fact that Assange's...
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9/7/20 Joe Lauria: Day One of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 8, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria gives an update on Julian Assange's extradition trial in the UK. The biggest piece of news from day one is that certain media outlets are reporting 17 new charges added to Assange's indictment, when in reality, there was simply a superseding indictment to...
9/4/20 James Carden on the Rotten Alliance between Liberals and Neocons
by Scott Horton | Sep 7, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews James Carden about his latest article, which explores the recent return of many prominent neocons to the Democratic Party in opposition to Trump. Carden reminds us that during the 1960s a group of hawkish Democrats moved over to side with the...
9/5/20 Gareth Porter on Trump’s First Term Foreign Policy Record
by Scott Horton | Sep 7, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses President Trump's foreign policy as we near the end of his first term. The story of Trump's time in office, as everyone knows, has been that despite his sense for the futility and unpopularity of America's endless wars, he, like Obama before...
9/4/20 David Henderson on the Supposed Economic Threat of China
by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews David Henderson about the threat to the U.S. posed by China's growing stature as an economic powerhouse. In general, Henderson thinks that such concerns are overblown, citing the real economic figures behind the trade relationship. In particular, he...
9/4/20 Trevor Timm on the Vindication of Edward Snowden
by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Timm discusses an important new ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which says that the NSA's mass data-gathering program, famously exposed by Edward Snowden, was illegal all along. It also came out during the court proceedings that not a single act...
8/31/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Israeli Bureaucracy Forcing Palestinians From Their Homes
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ramzy Baroud shares the heartbreaking story of Ahmed Amarneh, an engineer who decided to build a home for his family in a network of caves near their town after getting repeatedly denied building permits for a real house by the Israeli government. Now that he has...
8/31/20 Gareth Porter on Israel’s Ammonium Nitrate Terror Plot Delusion
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter debunks a series of bogus incidents in which Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, has accused various Lebanese men over the years of being Hezbollah agents attempting to orchestrate terrorist plots all around the world. In each of the cases that Porter...