Ted Snider discusses the many foreign policy betrayals that have already taken place under the Trump administration. One of Trump's first moves in office—and indeed one of his biggest campaign promises—was to withdraw from the JCPOA, an agreement that did little...
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8/21/20 Gareth Porter on the Journalistic Malpractice of Charlie Savage and the New York Times
by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott and Gareth Porter discuss Charlie Savage's shameful reporting on the recent Russian bounties story. In this case Savage, whom Scott and Porter actually regard as one of the better journalists at the New York Times, published a story laying out the allegations...
8/21/20 Ammon Bundy on Supporting Black Lives Matter’s Effort to Defund the Police
by Scott Horton | Aug 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ammon Bundy discusses his reasons for endorsing the Black Lives Matter movement and their move to defund police departments across America. Bundy, of course, was involved in a standoff with the Bureau of Land Management over cattle grazing rights in 2014, a fiasco...
8/21/20 Danny Sjursen Debunks the Biggest Myths About Lebanon
by Scott Horton | Aug 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about Lebanon, which has been in the news recently after a disastrous, and apparently accidental, explosion left hundreds dead there. Today Sjursen discusses Lebanon's past, a history that has seen it become a battleground for many proxy...
8/21/20 Jordan Smith on the Pseudoscience Putting Americans Behind Bars
by Scott Horton | Aug 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Jordan Smith discusses her research into the "BlueLeaks" archive of the leaked personal data of hundreds of thousands of cops and their cases. Smith was looking for evidence of unscientific techniques that the police use to elicit confessions and get convictions—and...
8/14/20 Branko Marcetic on Kamala Harris’ Powerful Pro-War Backers
by Scott Horton | Aug 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Branko Marcetic about Kamala Harris' dismal foreign policy. Although she's frequently portrayed as a progressive leftist, when it comes to foreign policy, says Marcetic, her foreign policy is right in line with the Clinton-Bush-Obama establishment...
Matt Taibbi on the Origins of the Russiagate Hoax
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Scott Horton, The Scott Horton Show
A New Whistleblower Exposes the 'Cambridge Four' This interview was recorded August 13, 2020. The computer garbled the audio terribly, but at least the auto-transcriber was able to make sense of it. The following is edited for clarity and minor mess-ups. Scott Horton:...
8/14/20 Grant Smith on the Unscrupulous Dealings of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith joins the show for another look at the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, a government entity associated with the state of Virginia that allocates taxpayer money to Israeli companies starting operations in the U.S. The projects, Smith explains, aren't viable...