Mike Swanson discusses the continuing economic fallout from the coronavirus, focusing in particular on what are sometimes called “zombie companies.” These firms stay afloat largely because of easy money available at low interest rates, even though their business may...
The Scott Horton Show
6/22/20 Vincent Bevins on the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
by Scott Horton | Jun 25, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews journalist Vincent Bevins about his latest book, The Jakarta Method, in which he lays out some of the history of the U.S. government’s support for violent right-wing coups all over the world. During the Cold War, America backed brutal extremists in...
6/19/20 Pete Quinones: The Monopoly on Violence
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Pete Quinones talks about his new project, The Monopoly on Violence, a documentary featuring interviews with many prominent figures in the libertarian and anarchist movements. The film explores the history of both statism and anarchism, explaining the nature of...
6/19/20 Danny Sjursen on the Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War
by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen talks about the Mexican-American War, a seldom-discussed conflict that he maintains holds lessons for America today. Sjursen describes a pattern that by now—with our long experience of the war on terrorism—should be all too familiar: a U.S. president...
6/19/20 Bas Spliet on America’s Empowerment of al Qaeda in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Bas Spliet about the state of the ongoing war in Yemen, in which America continues to support Saudi Arabia in its victimization of the Yemeni people. Spliet describes the true situation that American media is loath to tell you: America is fighting on...
6/19/20 Eric Margolis on the World’s Most Dangerous Border Dispute
by Scott Horton | Jun 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Eric Margolis about the recent border skirmishes between Chinese and Indian troops, which have resulted in deaths on both sides. The border between these two countries has been in dispute practically since its creation, and neither Scott nor...
6/19/20 Jacob Sullum on the Inescapable Reality of Racially Skewed Policing
by Scott Horton | Jun 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jacob Sullum about the many ways policing in America disproportionately targets black and hispanic communities, both by means of explicitly racist policies, and also those that have racially skewed impacts without necessarily having been conceived that...
6/19/20 Mike Maharrey: End Qualified Immunity for Cops
by Scott Horton | Jun 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Mike Maharrey untangles the complex web of legal history that has given America the system known as qualified immunity, which in practice shields police officers from just about any civil lawsuit. The doctrine, which has emerged out of the precedents set by repeated...