Ray McGovern reflects on the ways America's foreign policy and national security state have changed since his time in the CIA. In particular, he warns that Michael Morell, one of Joe Biden's top picks to head the CIA, is categorically unqualified to do so based on his...
Scott Horton
Scott Horton on Iran-Contra, Mujahideen, and “Dark Alliance” Ep. 144
https://youtu.be/q5rgHrbWa7U I invited Scott Horton on to the show to talk about two chapters of history where even the established history is too crazy to believe: the Iran-Contra Affair and the CIA's support for the Mujahideen in 1980s Afghanistan. We also discuss...
12/11/20 Aaron Maté on the OPCW’s Hero Whistleblowers
Aaron Maté is back with yet another update on the cover-up of the investigation into the supposed chemical attack in Douma, Syria. An initial investigation by the OPCW appeared to verify that the 2018 attack was indeed a chlorine gas attack, which must have been...
12/4/20 Chris Woods on the Real Civilian Death Toll in Iraq
Scott talks to Chris Woods from Airwars about some of the difficulties in assessing civilian casualties from U.S. bombs in Iraq. Woods estimates very conservatively that between eight and thirteen thousand civilians have been killed during the war in Iraq, but...
12/4/20 Danny Sjursen: The Case Against Jake Sullivan
Danny Sjursen is back for a look at Biden's foreign policy team, in particular his new National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. Sjursen says that Sullivan fits right in with many of Biden's other cabinet picks: extremely talented, well-credentialed, respectable...
12/4/20 Grant Smith on the Jonathan Pollard Exception
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American intelligence analyst who pled guilty to espionage on behalf of Israel in the 1980s. Pollard has been imprisoned for his crimes since then, until he was recently released on parole by the Trump...
12/4/20 Gilbert Doctorow: Will Antony Blinken’s Past Catch Up With Him?
Gilbert Doctorow talks about Biden's pick for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, particularly his famous stepfather, Samuel Pisar. Pisar is well-known these days for being a holocaust survivor rescued by American GIs during World War II, but is less known for his...
12/3/20 Gareth Porter on the Assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Gareth Porter discusses the recent assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by the Israeli government, which continues to claim that Fakhrizadeh was a "top nuclear scientist" in Iran. In reality, explains Porter, Fakhrizadeh was not a nuclear...
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