Hassan El-Tayyab discusses the great news out of Washington last week: the Biden administration has announced an end to all support for Saudi offensive operations in Yemen, and is appointing an envoy to help negotiate a peace deal. This is a great victory for all the...
The Scott Horton Show
2/5/21 Lyle J. Goldstein on the Nuclear Tensions Between the US and Russia
by Scott Horton | Feb 8, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Lyle Goldstein about the U.S.-Russia relationship and the future of global nuclear arms negotiations. Goldstein says that after the Cold War, the world's nuclear weapon situation was mostly under control—as a result, people today have forgotten how...
2/5/21 Bette Dam: How Flawed Intelligence Leads to War Crimes in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Feb 6, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Bette Dam about her reporting on the war in Afghanistan. Dam explains how faulty intelligence about enemy "combatants" has led to many unjustified killings, notably the war crimes by Australian special forces in Oruzgan Province in recent years. In...
2/5/21 Matthew Hoh on Biden’s Afghanistan Reversal
by Scott Horton | Feb 5, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Matthew Hoh discusses the Biden administration's Afghanistan policy. Trump, Hoh reminds us, had appointed Zalmay Khalilzad to negotiate a U.S. withdrawal with the Taliban; now it appears that Biden's team is reversing that plan. Hoh says that this was to be expected:...
2/4/21 Jim Bovard on the Official Whitewash of the Killing of Duncan Lemp
by Scott Horton | Feb 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard is back to discuss the tragic killing of Duncan Lemp, a Maryland man who was shot by police during a no-knock SWAT raid last year. Bovard has been covering the details of Lemp's story ever since, including the ways that the police department's story keeps...
1/28/21 Gareth Porter: Biden’s Coercive Iran Policy Threatens New Regional Crisis
by Scott Horton | Jan 31, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses U.S. relations with Iran, especially the ways the policies of the Biden administration might differ from those of the Trump administration. Even though the JCPOA was one of the signature accomplishments of the Obama presidency, and even though...
1/28/21 Shuja Paul on the Forgotten Bombs of America’s Secret War on Laos
by Scott Horton | Jan 31, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Shuja Paul about his forthcoming documentary, Waiting to Explode: Forgotten Bombs of a Secret War Continue to Kill. Paul's film tells the little-known story of the thousands of undetonated cluster bombs dropped by the U.S. during the Vietnam War,...
1/22/21 Steve Ellner on the Attempted US Destruction of Venezuela
by Scott Horton | Jan 26, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Steve Ellner discusses the economic and political situation in Venezuela, and the U.S. role in pushing the country to where it is today. Ellner dispels a common misconception, which is that foreign influence has had little to do with Venezuela's recent problems...
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