Australian journalist Mark Willacy talks to Scott about his investigations into alleged war crimes by Australian special forces units in Afghanistan. Willacy has worked closely with former SAS operative Braden Chapman, the leading figure in blowing the whistle on what...
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7/31/20 Ray McGovern on Colin Powell and Mike Pompeo
by Scott Horton | Aug 4, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern joins the show to talk about Colin Powell and Mike Pompeo: two credentialed, respected members of the foreign policy establishment that have both been hugely damaging to American interests. McGovern first responds to the claim that Powell unwaveringly and...
7/31/20 Branko Marcetic on Trump’s Dangerous Russia Hawkishness
by Scott Horton | Aug 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Branko Marcetic discusses a recent move by the Trump administration that will grant unprecedented powers to the CIA to conduct cyber attacks against foreign countries. This highlights a persistent trend throughout Trump's precedency that has seen him become perhaps...
7/31/20 Greg Mitchell: the Real History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Scott Horton | Aug 3, 2020 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Greg Mitchell about The Beginning or the End, his new book that tells the story of the making of the 1947 film of the same name. The movie was conceived as an exposé on the horrors of America's use of the nuclear bomb against Japan, partly at the...
7/31/20 Daniel Davis on Afghanistan, Germany and China
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Davis talks about the questionable Russian bounties story that is being used as an excuse to stop President Trump from pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Never mind the fact that America's intelligence agencies have come out to publicly disavow the story,...
7/31/20 Sheldon Richman: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Sheldon Richman about his new book, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other, a collection of essays exploring libertarian political philosophy, particularly as it relates to ancient Greek philosophy and the roots of liberalism. Libertarians sometimes...
7/31/20 Gareth Porter on the Real Story Behind the US-Israeli AMIA Bombing Narrative
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish community center bombing, and in particular the allegation that Hezbollah was behind the attack. Porter has written a piece based on testimony by an Argentinian undercover police officer that paints a different...
7/24/20 Sheldon Richman on the Two-State Illusion
by Scott Horton | Jul 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Sheldon Richman about the dawning realization that a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is never going to happen. Although Prime Minister Netanyahu recently backed down from his official plans for annexation of the West Bank, Richman says...