Trita Parsi discusses President Trump's recent announcement of a troop withdrawal from Iraq. Parsi is hesitant to fully endorse this move, explaining that while troop reductions are obviously good, such individual tactical moves, in order to be truly effective, must...
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Matt Taibbi on the Origins of the Russiagate Hoax
A New Whistleblower Exposes the 'Cambridge Four' This interview was recorded August 13, 2020. The computer garbled the audio terribly, but at least the auto-transcriber was able to make sense of it. The following is edited for clarity and minor mess-ups. Scott Horton:...
8/7/20 Stephen Zunes on Susan Rice’s Pro-War Establishment Credentials
Scott talks to Stephen Zunes about Susan Rice, one of the leading candidates for Joe Biden's VP pick. Rice fits Biden's criteria in that she's a black woman with political experience, but Zunes raises serious concerns about her track record. In particular, Rice turned...
Glenn Greenwald On The Coalition Of Pro-War Democrats And Republicans
Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept: How The Armed Services Committee, In The Middle Of A Pandemic, Approved A Huge Military Budget And More War In Afghanistan. For anyone that needs a reminder of what Democrats (and some Republicans) were saying about V.P. Dick Cheney...
6/29/20 Matthew Hoh on the Dubious Russia-Afghanistan Bounty Story
Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about the recent claim that the Russian government has been paying bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers. The headlines have made it sound as though this is a confirmed and well-sourced story, when in reality, Hoh explains,...
6/26/20 Jim Bovard on American Atrocities in Kosovo and Korea
Jim Bovard exposes the false claim that Bill Clinton presided over a peaceful administration, pointing out the horrible atrocities of the “humanitarian” intervention in Kosovo. Clinton launched this intervention, says Bovard, as a distraction from his personal...
6/26/20 Joe Lauria on the New Indictment Against Julian Assange
Joe Lauria explains the latest superseding indictment against Julian Assange, who still faces extradition to the U.S. for his supposed violations of the Espionage Act. Lauria’s take is that the new indictment is simply “window dressing,” meant to make Assange look bad...
6/19/20 Danny Sjursen on the Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War
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...
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