Gareth Porter is back for a retrospective on Trump's foreign policy. Despite campaigning on a relatively non-interventionist platform, and indeed despite explicitly denouncing the policies of the Bush and Clinton families along the way, Trump has not been especially...
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11/13/20 Ray McGovern on the Revenge of an Outgoing Trump Administration
by Scott Horton | Nov 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern discusses the recent personnel changes in the Trump administration and what they could mean for his final months in office. McGovern thinks that John Brennan and his allies are getting nervous that as a lame duck, Trump might decide to simply release...
11/13/20 Doug Bandow on the Lost Opportunities of the Trump Administration
by Scott Horton | Nov 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Doug Bandow about the missed foreign policy opportunities of the Trump administration. Bandow laments that Trump didn't push harder to get U.S. troops out of our wars in the Middle East, theorizing that he was worried the political cost in the eyes of...
11/13/20 Mike Maharrey: Saving the Republic by Abandoning the Empire
by Scott Horton | Nov 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center about the shameful state of U.S. foreign policy. In particular, Maharrey explains the way that congress has completely abdicated its role of declaring wars—instead, they have ceded that power fully to the...
11/13/20 Mark Perry: the Revenge of Colonel Douglas Macgregor
by Scott Horton | Nov 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Pentagon reporter Mark Perry discusses the recent appointment of retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor to a senior advisory position under President Trump's new secretary of defense. Perry calls Macgregor one of the greatest military minds in America; after a...
11/13/20 Grant Smith on the Israel Lobby’s ‘QME’ Scam
by Scott Horton | Nov 14, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith discusses the concept of "QME", or "Qualitative Military Edge," and how Israel and their lobby in the U.S. use it to get billions of dollars from the American taxpayers. Smith explains that during the Cold War, the doctrine of QME was used to keep the U.S....
11/11/20 Danny Sjursen on the Profitable Post-Military Careers of his Afghanistan Commanders
by Scott Horton | Nov 13, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about where his former commanders from Afghanistan have ended up in the years since the surge. Sjursen goes through a handful of these men: almost without fail, his former generals have ended up with profitable jobs in the arms industry...
11/11/20 David Swanson: Leaving World War II Behind
by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews author and peace activist David Swanson in honor of Veterans' Day, or Armistice Day, as it was originally known. Swanson begins by describing the way World War II has become the justification for just about every use of military force by the United...
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