Scott talks to Eli Clifton about the billionaire "megadonors" who control the Republican party. Although Trump started his campaign touting his status as an independent billionaire who couldn't be bought, Clifton explains how even if that's true, someone needs to fund...
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12/6/19 Tom Collina: America’s Dangerous “Nuclear Sponge”
Tom Collina tells Scott about the "nuclear sponge", a collection of land-based nuclear weapons in America's upper midwest, whose real purpose is just to absorb the strikes of a nuclear attack by a hostile power rather than to actually be used in an attack of their...
12/6/19 Kelley B. Vlahos on the Apathy Toward Hero Whistleblowers Manning and Assange
Kelley Vlahos discusses the latest with Julian Assange, who now will be testifying in a spying case involving the Spanish company UC Global, and which may implicate America's CIA and even top Republican donor Sheldon Adelson. Assange is being held in a London jail for...
12/2/19 Mark Perry on The Real Reason The Navy Stood Up To Trump
Mark Perry discusses what he calls "the biggest breakdown in civil-military relations since Vietnam": the controversy over the war crimes trial of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher. By refusing to allow the Navy to discipline Gallagher in the way they intended, Trump has...
Scott Horton on the US Empowering Iran and Creating a Failing Government in Iraq
Scott Horton returns to the show to discuss the turmoil in Iraq. The prime minister resigned over the weekend as government forces have now killed over 400 protesters since October 1st. Scott explains how the Iraq War removed Saddam from power helping to expand...
11/22/19 Aaron Maté on the Dangerous Precedent of ‘Russiagate’
Scott talks to Aaron Maté about the role John Brennan and the CIA might have played in the investigation into Trump's ties to Russia during the 2016 election. Although Maté is a progressive, he understands how dangerous it is to have intelligence agencies with the...
11/22/19 Doug Bandow on Making Peace with the Rest of the World
Doug Bandow explains why the pathological need for neocons and neoliberals in Washington to antagonize other powerful countries is so dangerous for America. Russia and China, he says, can both be our allies. It makes no sense for the U.S. military to be involved in...
11/22/19 Michael Boldin on the PATRIOT Act
Michael Boldin describes the appalling state of an American government that has strayed so far from its founding principles as codified by the constitution. Today the federal government wields so much power over every aspect of our lives that the only rational choice...
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