Peter Van Buren discusses Hunter Biden's lost laptop and the shocking documents it contains. He begins by pointing out that many American voters never heard about this story at all: the mainstream media refused to cover it, the tech companies silenced almost anyone...
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1/4/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Rejection of Julian Assange’s Extradition
by Scott Horton | Jan 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Kevin Gosztola about the breaking news that a British judge has denied the request to extradite Julian Assange from England to the United States. The prosecutors will appeal, says Gosztola, but this ruling opens the possibility that Assange could be...
12/22/20 Alan MacLeod on the Mainstream Media’s Russia Hysteria
by Scott Horton | Dec 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Alan MacLeod about the bizarre and troubling trend in both media and government where Russia is the automatic target of blame for everything these days. Every hack and cyber attack, of course, is automatically ascribed to the Russians, as are more...
12/22/20 Mark Perry: Lloyd Austin Isn’t Who You Think He Is
by Scott Horton | Dec 24, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Perry talks about General Lloyd Austin, Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense. Austin is a military man through and through, but he isn't your run-of-the-mill war hawk, explains Perry—instead, Austin has shown himself to be a strong advocate for diplomacy and...
12/21/20 Ted Carpenter on the Futility and Cruelty of Washington’s Economic Sanctions
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ted Carpenter about his recent coverage of America's sanctions policies around the world. Carpenter begins by explaining that economic sanctions are both ineffective and inhumane. For one thing, the theory that when a population is pressed hard enough...
12/21/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Plight of the Palestinians
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud discusses a series of recent articles he's written on the status of Israeli-Palestinian relations, and the long history that informs the situation today. It has now become clear, says Baroud, that the once-promised two-state...
12/18/20 Danny Sjursen on Nagorno-Karabakh and the Ethiopian Civil War
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about two prominent conflicts facing the world in 2020. In Nagorno-Karabakh, an uneasy, Russian-brokered peace deal is holding between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but Sjursen worries that this peace won't last forever, as each country still...
12/18/20 Nasser Arrabyee on Yemen’s Desperate Humanitarian Crisis
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Nasser Arrabyee is back with an update on the ongoing war in Yemen. Joe Biden, he says, has said some promising things about ending U.S. support for the Suadi war there, but both Arrabyee and Scott are skeptical that he will follow through at all. Supporters of the...